[lit-ideas] Re: On Leaving The List

  • From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 09:04:28 +0900

The night is oldThe air is stale
A drunk is heaving in the corner.
Time to close the bar

John

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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> I apologise to everyone but, truly, I think I've had enough.
>
> I've tried to keep quiet, even keep _it_ quiet. And now I can barely stay
> lucid. It's Chris Bruce.
>
> Others may feel the same - others may not. But Chris has - FOR A V. LONG
> TIME - been posting far in lack of excess of the nominal three-a-day limit.
> Take last Tuesday...actually take most days. Even on the days he deigns to
> post it's never the full three.
>
> It's eating up far too much precious time awaiting these posts that never
> come. Into their non-existence I can only posit the kinds of irrelevance and
> dreary smallness that, I suspect strongly, they would be rife with - if only
> they existed. Chris, by his continual absence of
> three-and-more-a-day-if-you-want-it posting, has raised a legitimate
> expectation of breaking with this pattern - a raised expectation that he
> continually disappoints us all with. Anyway, I for one have had enough.
> Really.
>
> It may be I will lurk a bit to see if CB can up his output - but already I
> just sense disappointment lurking around the corner.
>
> What's even more disgraceful is CB's failure despite the shining example of
> JLS as to how it can, and should, be done.
>
> Just f******g awful. That's how I feel right now. Thanks Chris.
>
> Goodnight everyone
>
> Donal
> Stuck in a line in Hotel California
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