[lit-ideas] Re: Manly Flowers
- From: John Burt <burt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 23:07:37 -0500
But David, surely the manliest flower is the thistle, no?
John
On Thursday, April 1, 2004, at 09:35 PM, David Ritchie wrote:
> Thank you for your suggestions. What about lilac: sturdy but flexible,
> briefly spectacular and scented, but mostly green and dependable?
>
> It turns out that I shall have to make do with naked tips and anonymous
> blooms, with the stems sticking provocatively out of crinkly wrap.
>
> I took a call early this morning. It was the agency with whom I had
> agreed
> a price for the flowers and with whom I thus had a contract. Yes, they
> said, the Spring bouquet was supposedly on its way, nearing the Azores
> perhaps, but the British florist had baulked at having to provide a
> vase.
> To include a ninety cent plastic vase in the deal would, in the British
> view, require a doubling of the agreed price.
>
> I said I understood what hard times the British were going through,
> what
> with so much energy going into this year's public convenience of the
> year
> competition and so on, and that I thought naked would do; I agreed
> that the
> stems could be sent potless, sans vase.
>
> Just as long as they deliver the things soon.
>
>
> David Ritchie
> Portland, Oregon
>
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