Your original point was that I was wrong about Laurie Lee's idyllic life being misreported and contrived. I don't agree with you. I've already said so, given my reasons and supported them with illustrative facts.
I like "smuggness" though - the extra g improves it and conveys even more of a sense of offensive self-satisfaction. What do you expect in return for illiterate abuse, clichés and sarcasm?
Perhaps next time you feel like immersing yourself in culture, read a council tax bill or go through your last years receipts, these are "real" an will suit your bland pallet.
its was nice to come on here an hear this, however, the comments along the sidebar are disappointing.
Lee encapsulates the countryside through the eyes of a child, and the wonderment here in. This is the true nature of the countryside to any person of a romantic disposition. His prose is beautiful an to call it contrived suggests more about yourself than Mr Wun Lung Lee.
Well, yes, Laurie Lee is masking any and all unpleasantness. But if he's all sweetness and light, pretty colors etc. there is some lovely word music here. Decorative poetry has its place.
And this is hardly the sappy, dull prettiness of Rod McKuen. Do you remember him? At least here in the States, he was a huge best seller back in the late sixties and early seventies.
"Listen to the Warm" was one of the books my sister had of his when she was a teenager.
Bell end
pop that one in inverted commas.
shuttlem 2 years ago
Inverted commas are properly used for quotations For instance: you said, "bell end". Thank you for your amusing remarks.
SpokenVerse 2 years ago
ah, smuggness. an excellent quality in a man.
well i do believe you skirted the original point.
but feel free to nit pick.
shuttlem 2 years ago
Your original point was that I was wrong about Laurie Lee's idyllic life being misreported and contrived. I don't agree with you. I've already said so, given my reasons and supported them with illustrative facts.
I like "smuggness" though - the extra g improves it and conveys even more of a sense of offensive self-satisfaction. What do you expect in return for illiterate abuse, clichés and sarcasm?
SpokenVerse 2 years ago
Perhaps next time you feel like immersing yourself in culture, read a council tax bill or go through your last years receipts, these are "real" an will suit your bland pallet.
shuttlem 2 years ago
pallet - meaning a narrow hard bed or straw-filled mattress...? I'm sorry that's a little confusing.
SpokenVerse 2 years ago
its was nice to come on here an hear this, however, the comments along the sidebar are disappointing.
Lee encapsulates the countryside through the eyes of a child, and the wonderment here in. This is the true nature of the countryside to any person of a romantic disposition. His prose is beautiful an to call it contrived suggests more about yourself than Mr Wun Lung Lee.
shuttlem 2 years ago
Well, yes, Laurie Lee is masking any and all unpleasantness. But if he's all sweetness and light, pretty colors etc. there is some lovely word music here. Decorative poetry has its place.
And this is hardly the sappy, dull prettiness of Rod McKuen. Do you remember him? At least here in the States, he was a huge best seller back in the late sixties and early seventies.
"Listen to the Warm" was one of the books my sister had of his when she was a teenager.
written12 2 years ago