Robert Simpson: 31 May-4 June

[EnemyoftheStoat]

Simpson fans take note

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000wt1x

I had just been wondering whether it would be too much to hope for one of the TBC Proms to include some Simpson. (The sensible part of my brain told me not to be so stupid.)

I then clicked on the link and my browser was obviously flabbergasted as it immediately crashed. It did work second time round, though. Thanks for posting.

[Serial_Apologist]

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BASIL BUNTING: On The Fly-Leaf Of Pound's Cantos

There are the Alps. What is there to say about them?
They don't make sense. Fatal glaciers, crags cranks climb,
jumbled boulder and weed, pasture and boulder, scree,
et l'on entend, maybe, le refrain joyeux et leger.
Who knows what the ice will have scraped on the rock it is smoothing?

There they are, you will have to go a long way round
if you want to avoid them.
It takes some getting used to. There are the Alps,
fools! Sit down and wait for them to crumble!

Reminds me of the misshapen tree in the Zen parable quoted in Cage's "Silence" iirc, whose value is incalculable since its wood is unusable, and yet provides shelter, and - were we to have an economic system whereby eco-sustainability was plus factored into the budgetting and accounting - sustains its wildlife.