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What were your impressions?
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- austere paul auster living austerely baggy bumhole due to heroin each bush of memory conceals a sniper heraldic pigeon like a bat outta hell mess of pottage mixed biscuits is a version but he has clamydia mixed biscuits is a virgin but he has clamydia oaten cakes plain home-made cheese reality being too prickly for my lofty character someone put me on to a frenchman
Benny Bunter
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It was the sheer speed of them that was most impressive, never seen anything move that fast. I went back to the same spot the next day and saw them again, but haven't seen them since. Was just lucky to be in the park when there was no-one else around to scare them off.
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In "The Kingfisher," Mary Oliver had written: "I think this is / the prettiest world—so long as you don't mind / a little dying, how could there be a day in your whole life / that doesn't have its splash of happiness?" Well yes and—dying, there's the rub.
The Kingfisher, so Rousseau tells us, does not think of these things: "When the wave snaps shut over his blue head, the water / remains water." This, of course, only & always a possibility in a world of speculation—we have no way of knowing—but neither do we, after all, know what happens after death. Nor whether laws formulated twenty centuries After Prophecy (a primitive time, we'd agree), and in a provincial backwater of the grand Universe, will hold up across the spaceage pages. So the Heat Death of the Universe, the iron-cold leaden-echoed conclusion which comes naturally out of questionable premises is itself mere possibility, in a world of speculation, that has correlated with the whims of nature for just a geologic instant.
But we are getting ahead of ourselves. That is yet to come. The year is 2010. The album is Have One On Me.
The Kingfisher, so Rousseau tells us, does not think of these things: "When the wave snaps shut over his blue head, the water / remains water." This, of course, only & always a possibility in a world of speculation—we have no way of knowing—but neither do we, after all, know what happens after death. Nor whether laws formulated twenty centuries After Prophecy (a primitive time, we'd agree), and in a provincial backwater of the grand Universe, will hold up across the spaceage pages. So the Heat Death of the Universe, the iron-cold leaden-echoed conclusion which comes naturally out of questionable premises is itself mere possibility, in a world of speculation, that has correlated with the whims of nature for just a geologic instant.
But we are getting ahead of ourselves. That is yet to come. The year is 2010. The album is Have One On Me.
Benny Bunter
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Halcyon
"calm, quiet, peaceful," 1540s, in halcyon dayes (translating Latin alcyonei dies, Greek alkyonides hemerai), 14 days of calm weather at the winter solstice, when a mythical bird (also identified with the kingfisher) was said to breed in a nest floating on calm seas. The name of this fabulous bird is attested in Middle English as alcioun (late 14c.).The name is from Latin halcyon, alcyon, from Greek halkyon, variant (perhaps a misspelling) of alkyon "kingfisher," a word of unknown origin. The explanation that this is from hals "sea; salt" (see halo-) + kyon "conceiving," present participle of kyein "to conceive," literally "to swell" (see cumulus) probably is ancient folk-etymology to explain a loan-word from a non-Indo-European language. Identified in mythology with Halcyone, daughter of Aeolus, who when widowed threw herself into the sea and became a kingfisher.
"calm, quiet, peaceful," 1540s, in halcyon dayes (translating Latin alcyonei dies, Greek alkyonides hemerai), 14 days of calm weather at the winter solstice, when a mythical bird (also identified with the kingfisher) was said to breed in a nest floating on calm seas. The name of this fabulous bird is attested in Middle English as alcioun (late 14c.).The name is from Latin halcyon, alcyon, from Greek halkyon, variant (perhaps a misspelling) of alkyon "kingfisher," a word of unknown origin. The explanation that this is from hals "sea; salt" (see halo-) + kyon "conceiving," present participle of kyein "to conceive," literally "to swell" (see cumulus) probably is ancient folk-etymology to explain a loan-word from a non-Indo-European language. Identified in mythology with Halcyone, daughter of Aeolus, who when widowed threw herself into the sea and became a kingfisher.
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A Random thing on telly just now
Zephaniah meets Byron Keats and Shelley x2 on the intercity 125 in 1992 😲
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I can bear a lot, but not that pall!
Kingfisher, cast your fly:
oh, Lord,
it happens without even trying,
when I sling a low look
from my shuttering eye.
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