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Monthly Archives: October 2012

23.10.12 – UPDATE (2)

1800 Home. Open new Iliad edition. Epigraph: ‘For Derek Walcott More Homeric kudos’

23.10.12 – UPDATE (1)

1645 Pick up Derek Walcott’s Selected Poems in bookshop. p197 ‘the madman who tore Achille’s undershirt from one shoulder also tore at his heart.’ – FROM Omeros (1990)

23.10.12

0930 Retweet Homeric ‘Rain of blood’ detail (courtesy unknown female) 1100 Rewrite Rupert Brooke one-liner, ref. Danish political TV series 1130 Post arrives, incl. new Johns Hopkins Iliad translation 1315 Stanford’s: 1 x scratch-off gold world map 1400 To barracks for Afghanistan mobilisation briefing

The soldier (after Brooke)

If I should die, think only this of me: I never finished watching all of Borgen…

NB To a little brother (after Yeats)

Tread softly because you’re treading on my Asterix!

Houseworm’s wisdom

A little Ribena goes a long way on a beige carpet.

There was an old woman who swallowed a fly

There was an old woman who swallowed a fly (I don’t know why she swallowed a fly); but she washed it down with a glass of water and that was the end of the matter.

‘Not to be’

Invited to decline the future of ‘to be’, I declined it in the here and now.

Rain (again)

Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. Rain …….rain …………..rain …………………rain ……………………….rain ……………………………..rain ……………………………………rain. Damned English weather!

The commute

She opens a mag called Creative Solutions. She stares into space.