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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30253
    #31
    Originally posted by John Skelton View Post
    I once dropped a copy of John Ashbery's Houseboat Days in the bath (wherein I was reading it). Not on purpose, I rather like the book. Is this off-topic?
    I love the title. I keep meaning to buy a houseboat but somehow ...
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • Serial_Apologist
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 37613
      #32
      It's where I always keep next week's Radio Times, a red biro beside, using that time of morn to continue red circling items of intended listening or viewing, until Saturday sees last week's copy dispatched to the recycle bin.

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      • scottycelt
        #33
        This is a quite nauseating thread, so I'm now registering the justified complaint that amateur51 so desperately wishes to provoke.

        Books are so outrageously passé ... have you lot never even heard of a kindle .. ?

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        • french frank
          Administrator/Moderator
          • Feb 2007
          • 30253
          #34
          Originally posted by scottycelt View Post
          ... have you lot never even heard of a kindle .. ?
          No ....

          (Not in my case, anyway - I'm still into coal fires )
          It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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          • Martin
            #35
            There should be no problem with airing this subject on a R3 message board. You will see that the Auden poem featured in R3's very own Words and Music in 2009.

            BBC Radio 3 - Words and Music, The Geography of a Home
            http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009py3w
            Belinda Lang and David Bamber read poems on the theme of houses and homes.


            Let's hope no-one gets caught short on Platform 3: now that really would be a worthwhile public service going down the drain.

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26523
              #36
              Originally posted by Martin View Post
              There should be no problem with airing this subject on a R3 message board. You will see that the Auden poem featured in R3's very own Words and Music in 2009.

              BBC Radio 3 - Words and Music, The Geography of a Home
              http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009py3w
              Belinda Lang and David Bamber read poems on the theme of houses and homes.


              Let's hope no-one gets caught short on Platform 3: now that really would be a worthwhile public service going down the drain.





              Originally posted by scottycelt View Post
              Books are so outrageously passé ... have you lot never even heard of a kindle .. ?

              Scotty, if you have a fumble and drop your "kindle" into les eaux, I bet it doesn't dry out like a book....

              Personally, though a signed-up Apple Mac addict, I have no use for pads, tablets or kindles. It would be otherwise if I ever took long train / tube / bus journeys
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26523
                #37
                Originally posted by french frank View Post
                No ....

                (Not in my case, anyway - I'm still into coal fires )
                Much easier to use a book for kindling....
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • scottycelt
                  #38
                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Scotty, if you have a fumble and drop your "kindle" into les eaux, I bet it doesn't dry out like a book....
                  LES EAUX ?!! ... haven't you got les W.-C chimiques, yet, Caliban ... ?

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26523
                    #39
                    Originally posted by scottycelt View Post
                    LES EAUX ?!! ... haven't you got les W.-C chimiques, yet, Caliban ... ?
                    Scotty, your insistence on being at the forefront of latrine-based technology puts me in mind of the scene in Blackadder II when Edmund B is showing prospective purchasers Mr & Mrs Pants round his dwelling:

                    Mrs. Pants: But what about the privies?

                    Blackadder: Um, well, what we are talking about in privy terms is the latest in front wall fresh air orifices combined with a wide capacity gutter installation below.

                    Mrs. Pants: You mean you crap out the window?

                    Blackadder: Yes.

                    Mrs. Pants: Well in that case we'll definitely take it. I can't stand those dirty indoor things.
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                    • Anna
                      #40
                      Oh Dear. Reading in the loo is such a bloke thing isn't it? Like, blokes always find fart jokes funny. Do you know any women who have a collection of books there? Personally, I think men hide away in there to get away from women.

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26523
                        #41
                        Originally posted by Anna View Post
                        Oh Dear. Reading in the loo is such a bloke thing isn't it? Like, blokes always find fart jokes funny. Do you know any women who have a collection of books there? Personally, I think men hide away in there to get away from women.
                        Ladies of my acquaintance have the most elegantly and copiously stocked shelves around their loos... I have encountered no gender divide in this area...
                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • vinteuil
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 12793
                          #42
                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          ... I have encountered no gender divide in this area...
                          ... perhaps it's a class divide

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                          • Anna
                            #43
                            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                            ... perhaps it's a class divide
                            Might be something in that I suppose, but why should anyone want to linger and read? Does it imply constipationary knots in some of our members? Or, anally retentive personalities?

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                            • vinteuil
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12793
                              #44
                              Originally posted by Anna View Post
                              .... why should anyone want to linger and read? Does it imply constipationary knots in some of our members? Or, anally retentive personalities?
                              ... well, as I indicated in my #22 above, I'm all for an efficient throughput with no call for lingering.

                              Mind you, friends who have noted the ordering of my book collections (English lliterature chronological; foreign literature alphabetical; other subjects Dewey; CDs alphabetical by composer; within composer subclassified by style... usw, usw, usw) have hinted at possibly anal-retentive characteristics...

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                              • MrGongGong
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 18357
                                #45
                                Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                                My copy of Notations, kindly given me by C. Cardew (one of his two complementary copies) is now rather battered, as is my heavily notated copy of A Year from Monday. As I am sure you will understand, any potential cash value is not something I place on the. It's their use value and of course their sentimental value, rather than their exchange value that lends them worth to me.
                                Indeed as with the copy of Notations that I lived on lentils and rice to buy
                                no intention of selling it .........

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