Sinister: Who writes the songs that make the happy bunnies hum.
or why I love this list.... 1. I've just got 'meat' samosa all over the computer screen after laughing so much at Tag's last mail while having my lunch. I'm still giggling now and I've started on my Ribena, by thunder I could short circuit the whole place if I'm not carefull. But anything that can do that to me at work has got to be A Good Thing. 2. It makes me listen to other people 3. It makes me listen to more B&S and more than B&S. On a B&S point, I can't stop listening to Photo Jenny and Century of Elvis. I've just made a tape that runs those two into Speed of Light by the Fannies and I listen to it on the way home quite overwhelmed by opportunites for loveliness and beauty that our humble lives afford us. But I never used to be keen on either of those two songs, just one day I was listening and they struck something new inside me. it reminds me of my love of e.e.cummings. I have two little books of his poems and I adore his stuff. Not all of it; I reckon it's like life - most of it doesn't make sense, some of it is rubbish but then come bits that are so beautiful that it makes up for everything else. And whenever I flick through those books I find new bits. Poems I've looked at a hundred times may suddenly 'speak' to me. I read one that made me cry last week that has never meant anything to me before. It starts "in time's a noble mercy of proportion" and I ought to stick it up on my website at my earliest. B&S are like that for me, I'm still finding new treasures in an admittedly still small pool; long may it continue. the faith? I'm keeping it. john xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
it reminds me of my love of e.e.cummings. I have two little books of his poems.
in an attempt to improve my popularity after the 'bless' debacle, i'll try to say something intelligent on this subject... (and make my mail longer than the extract from the original, honeypaul)... i think you're right about cummings: some of his poems are just 'too much', really, but there are others that are truly beautiful: i'm thinking of the sonnet 'it may not always be so and i say', which i always set my practical criticism class the first time we meet. ok, so he has to be held responsible for the fact that everyone and her cat now uses lower case letters, even tho that wasn't the point: cummings did use upper-case (as you'll know, having read the stuff: i guess i'm talking here to people who haven't) but not where you'd expect it: it was more a case of drawing attention to things and getting away from unnecessary linguistic conventions.... but that's enough litcrit: and i guess the b&s content is just that i love them in the same way as cummings. but if anyone wants to read some of his stuff, go out and get the poems 1923-58. or i migth even post one here next time. in fact, here's all i can remember of one... it may not always be so, and i say that if another's ... (oh dear: not much. brain's not working) time to go, amh
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