Having penned a poem or several, I am fascinated by the English language and there was no better conjurer of conversation, genius of gibberish and out and out acrobat of articulation than Vivian Stanshall!
Ian has been a huge fan of his for many years and, by 'osmosis', so am I. He's been quoting bits of 'Sir henry at Rawlinson End' to me for many moons and it was with a strange stroke of luck that he stumbled across the first performance of it on stage since it was performed by Stanshall
It was at The Unity theatre in Liverpool and performed by Mike Livesley and tickety boo it was too!!!
Wednesday 23 June 2010
A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.
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I wish I'd known about this - he is marvelous isn't he?
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do try and catch it if you can, it was superb...it's on again in september I believe, check with The Unity theatre :0)
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ahh good old Viv, an amazing creature.. i've read your résumé; perhaps your have dyscalculia .. its not a label its a food stuff of sorts. Blogs, who reads them? I have one, no one reads it, it just gets spammed by porn from Poland, perhaps they read it. Talking of porn, if you look for anything on google, one gets porn; which makes me wonder - is everyone in the world somehow involved in the porn industry? It would appear so. Happy penning of poetry and such, i may never find your blog again, but be assured i am not trying to sell anything, no hair loss treatment, no xylophone lessons, no six pack in two weeks.. just me. Peace and quiddity
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