there is a chapter in f. scott fitzgerald's 'the beautiful and damned' called ' a sinister summer'. it is a very fine book, and quite a good chapter. i just had a thought (well, i just had lots, but frankly this is the one i intended to share with the list, even though it doesn't have any b&s content, although it potentially has self-referential sinister content), er... did/does anyone on the list go to a steiner/waldorf school (which are NOT 'orrible christian cults, by the way)? i did, and would like to hear what other's people's experiences of it were. i'm quite ambivalent about it still, seven years after i left. i just wonder how much these things shape and change a person, really. re. lesley jo's musings on death and the fuckness of everything: my homeopath asked me if i was afraid of death. i had to think for a minute, but then i internally said, 'yes you silly cow of course i am, isn't everyone?' i can't imagine not being afraid of it really. it's like, you know constantly that the people close to you, as well as everyone else in the world, will die. and yet you can't believe it, because they're, well they're here, now, and they are all these special things to you, and why would anyone want to take that away? what's the point? and the difference between life and death is so huge, yet separated by a second. i can't get my head round that at all. one minute, most alive, individual person ever, next minute nothing. the same as millions of other people who lived and died. END OF METAPHYSICAL TRIPE i think the weather is putting me in this odd mood. darkness falls upon the earth (well sussex) and the rain comes down, then blinding shafts of light attack through the clouds and the cold autumn sun glances off the churning sea. it's not good for a person. sinister has got very melancholy and reflective of late, n'est ce pas? lots of sad love stories. it must be the winter coming on (though that only works for the northen hemishere i guess.) so let's all get our cardies on and snuggle up together like foxes in the snow, staring at the magic sinister fire as the nights draw in... warm hugs, archel xxx ****** Rachel Playforth archel@iname.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+