Sinister: a man, a plan, a canal, panama....

[Rachel Playforth]

....is the best palindrome ever.

so, cambridge was fucking freezing.  and i must say i was slightly
disillusioned about the so-called scholars - the intellectual cream of our
nation and the conversations i took part in went along the lines of:
1) can you get to the moon without relativity?
2) is britney spears more influential than the beatles?
3) grammatically, what is the male version of a dominatrix? (any ideas
lisa?)

but also had a tingly time listening to rhoda, loneliness..., london has let
me down, and pocketbook angel.  courtesy of bagpuss boy (see archives) and
n*p*t*r.  i thought rhoda and pocketbook angel were particularly good, and
mourned for their shelving in favour of such oddities as Beyond the Arse.
that's democracy for you...

scotland = cheapness.  when you come think of it, mcdonalds is another
example.  and i saw a poster in the tube the other day for  something called
'McDate'.  some kind of actual dating agency.  what's that all about?  your
date is cheap, greasy and fills a hole but inexplicably leaves you wanting
something more?

parents and music: most recent experience of this tricky area was
discovering that the mysterious disappearance of the van morrison cd which
jamie was going to give me at xmas was down to his dad stealing it.
actually *stealing* it off the pile of presents.  luckily i don't really
like van m. anyway apart from brown eyed girl.

nicholas, you are of course right about the greatness of poetry in book
form.  i would be lost without my bookshelves, and wouldn't have been
putting poetry on the net at all if it wasn't for them.  cambridge has some
good 2nd hand bookshops.  but on the whole it's a strange hidebound
community loosely held together by ritual and history.  imho.

i think i may go to the states and do a masters.  any advice?

luv archel xxx

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Rachel Playforth
'She may not be famous, but she's right' - Homer Simpson

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