Simon,
I especially like this one - the bit about the Water Babies, and
He thought of charcoal eyelashes on parchment
Goggle hats for hearing the inside of shells
New internets and virtual landscapes with tiny bridges
Edward
On 26/09/2020 11:13, Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour wrote:
Victorian musings
What L thought:
...Lounge in orchards on the hill past the racetrack imagining the
Victorians in their black chenille petticoats, their ‘tashes, woollen
coats that itch, spectacles, great long oversized leather shoes like
mice, gaping socks fallen on the ankle bones of merchants, larl
jockeys in real silk colours, fishermen imagining Dylan before he
existed singing ‘they’re selling postscards of the hanging!’, lumpy
German tourists who want to start a war and buy bonds what a racket!,
little lads who sweep chimneys and dream of the deep glassy waters
where the trout befriend ‘em and they make their way in illustrations
of tiny babies to the sea, a dream of hot chimneys, ‘orrible bosses,
made to scratch and clear flus, err wot else — yeah great carts full
of apples and pears and bunches of violets, an Italian vagrant lies
beside a bush, he sings some bits of opera, la la la la in a bass
voice, then reads his book about hop picking in Kent, the young lad
found feverish in the hops, the story of it all, the summer so long,
the little dogs with ribbons, the cats outside the back door,
minibuses on trips, larders, tomato sandwiches, salt and pepper pots
and all that mouldy malarkey.
L writ this in his diary one time.
He thought of charcoal eyelashes on parchment
Goggle hats for hearing the inside of shells
New internets and virtual landscapes with tiny bridges
A pencil
Durer’s scratching tool...
S.
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