Sinister: Tigermilk recommended for investors/Yeats

[Martin Conneely]

1.  From today's Irish Times Business (!) Section, in an article about 
collecting vinyl:   

"Not many people have heard about a new Scottish band called Belle and 
Sebastian who only formed two years ago and have never troubled the charts  or  
_Top of the Pops_ but because they're deemed 'artistically significant' by 
music journalists and the _cognoscenti_, Belle and Sebastian's debut album two 
years ago, called _TIger Milk_, of which only 500 copies were pressed up, is 
now passing hands for more than œ200.  From œ15 to œ200 in two years, you could 
be naming your own price in 10 years time."  

The Irish Times Entertainment section also gave IYFS a very good review when it 
came out.  

But I'm not forgetting that the Sports Section tipped Dun Belle recently (which 
seemed to me to be a message to the _cognoscenti_), leading to a depletion of 
my disposable income that week.

2. Runegg <Runegg at aol.com wrote

>Here's a short Yeats poem..  Poor Willie, spent his whole life
>trapped in unrequited love for Maud Gonne... I hope there were "others", as he 
says,
>or else he doomed himself.


>A Deep-Sworn Vow

>Others because you did not keep
>That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;

Yes, there were quite a few "others".  The first seems to have been Olivia 
Shakespear, when Yeats was 31.   According to Samuel Levenson's biography of 
Maud Gonne, "Olivia was everything a man could want in a woman.  But Yeats's 
nervous excitement was so great during her first two visits that he was 
impotent".  He felt it was "best to sit over out tea and talk".  (Maybe he had 
been indulging in that "temperance tea" that Mr Hopkins of this list found so 
enervating).    Anyway, as Yeats put it, "My nervousness did not return again 
and we had many happy days."

So that's alright then, although he did remain obsessed with Maud and I have a 
hunch that it was not quite unrequited.


Martin C.
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