[lit-ideas] Re: Thursday Poem
- From: "Steve Chilson" <stevechilson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:22:17 +0100
Midges are like what people in NW America say about bad weather.
An excuse to keep the outsiders out.
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:06:07 -0700, "David Ritchie"
<ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
> On Oct 23, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Steve Chilson wrote:
> >> about Glencoe
> >
> > Yes, I have been there, it was my favourite place in the UK in three
> > years. Can't find a house to buy. Still stuck here. But inching
> > closer. It's a place where your head explodes; fuck what do I love
> > more
> > the mountains or the lake? That kind of place. You?
> >
> I'm still waiting for Erin's account of the Scottish wedding and an
> explanation of why she wants to raise sheep in the Western Isles.
> Among my fantasies is an extended stay on Mull maybe, a long summer of
> nothing but painting and quiet and the light on water. Oh, and no
> midges. Scotland is extraordinary, the best place in the world except
> for the midges, the weather, the lack of a way to make a living, the
> food, the soccer, drunk louts, dark winters, real estate prices....
>
> David Ritchie
> exiled in Oregon
>
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