Kitten Update: in two or three weeks this might be the one. Lara has already hit on a name - Potiron (or Pumpkin for English speakers). Which gives us plenty of time to buy the cat litter etc..
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Today, boys and girls, we’re going to look at ‘Song of the Chinchilla’ by Lisa Jarnot*. I liked the poem immediately – and I’ve given it to ...
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Now that is one cute kitten...
W
Indeed.
However, given that one of its brothers/sisters was pecked to bits by a local magpie as it tottered across the lawn, we're keeping our fingers crossed he'll survive until weaned from the mum.
Much excitement, though amongst the girls.
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D'you know Ponge's work? I did - never got much out of it - but have dug into it again due to the current Waldrop obsession. (Keith W's poems are super - a lovely line in self-effacing subject matter which suddenly veers off into other lands. Rosmarie's work seems much more cerebral in comparison. Strange, as I'd assumed it was the other way around).
Cheers
The C.
Cut and fluffy maybe - but remember dogs have owners, cats have staff!
Yes, I like Ponge (I have the Faber Selected) -- he's a real one-off it seems to me. Like Michaux.
I've tried writing in a similar vein -- you know, find an object and write around and about it and imbue it with strangeness, but failed every time!
"Pecked to bits"? How big are the magpies round your way?
I'm rereading The Plague. Read it as an adolescent and it made no impression whatsoever. Enjoying it much more this time around, and I'm wondering why no one has ever tried to make it into a film.
All the best,
W.
Dear Walrus
Would I be right in thinking that Hitchcock's The Birds was a kind of reworking of the Camus novel?
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As for magpies - yes, big mean bastards round here. (A week or so ago, the BBC even claimed that vultures have been sighted in Brussels. Perhaps it was one of them disguised as a mapgpie...).
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The Waldrop is absolutely terrific. Wish I'd thought of it.
The C.
That is an adorable kitten, and Pumpkin is a perfect name. We are thinking of getting a kitten once we move to Brussels, but until then I shall live vicariously through you.
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