You should know that a) I have won a fiercely competitive poetry competition and b) that Big Jeff is giving away his money. In both cases it's about time too.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
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Congratulations, Bryan. Such a pithy expression of the one, truly problematic question of our time: What is it pigeons know, that we don't?
ReplyDeleteWell quite, Neil. Pigeons are indeed replete with mystery. These were in Norfolk if that's any help.
ReplyDeleteI think that I will never see
ReplyDeleteA blog as lovely as a tree
I don't know hat to make of this.
ReplyDeleteDr Johnson has nothing to say about pigeons...
Ah, the inscrutable Norfolk pigeon. Its apparent insouciance is a clever ruse to engender in humans the urge to write doggeral. We don't know why this might be to their advantage, but we know they can't be trusted.
ReplyDeleteThere's a book about sentient London pigeons (a novel, natch) that came out a couple of years ago. What was its title? Maybe _The London Pigeon Wars_. Very interesting. The pigeons were from Trafalgar Square, I believe, and spoke in a really cool dialect. Harder to understand than that rhyming Cockney that fascinates me so (sometime I wish you'd do a post on that, Bryan. You do know what I'm talking about, don't you? Example: "A West End Thespian" = a "Lesbian." Don't know why that's the first example to occur to me --yes, I do know, it's cause I'm writing about some West End thespians currently on Broadway -- they aren't lesbians, either. Oh, dear. I'll shut up now).
ReplyDeleteBryan, I really appreciate your having entered Rebecca's contest. And I am in renewed awe at the marvelous possibilities engendered by the internet.
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure, Debra. Honoured to have won. I've been thinking about those pigeons for some time.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm glad you knew it was me. I didn't mean to send it anonymously, it just got away from me. This one may too. Let's see if I can get my name in before the thing flies away, pigeon-like.
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