[lit-ideas] Re: a quiet weekend...
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:42:16 -0800
Ha!
A Highland Dance competition may be many things, but until someone invents a
volume control for bagpipes, quiet it can never be. I shall take with me
Hugh MacDiarmid, "Scottish Eccentrics," a recent "find."
Having read this week's New Yorker piece on Galton--who knew he invented
underwater reading glasses; what does one read underwater, the literary
equivalent of water music?--I have in my head some weak play of words, an
epigram in defence of eccentricity, something about meanness possibly being
inherent in regressing towards the mean, but I can't quite pull it off.
I look forward to seeing what poetry your weekend in Geary's company
inspires. I guarantee that he's not expecting you.
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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