[ilds] Count Banubula tells it straight.

[Richard Pine]

I'm interested that you think 'crepuscular' an obscure term. And as you use
the term 'harvest moon' do you know that it was a Victorian codeword for an
uncircumcised penis?
RP

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 7:35 AM, Denise Tart & David Green <
dtart at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> Haven't you noticed Charlock that most things in life happen just outside
> one's range of vision? One has to see them out of the corner of one's eye.
> And any one thing could effect any number of others? I mean there seem to
> be always a dozen perfectly appropriate explanations to every phenomenon.
> That is what makes our reasoning minds so unsatisfactory; and yet, they are
> all we've got, this shabby piece of equipment."
>
> Count Banubula to Charlock in a bar (of course) p 100 Faber Hardback ed,
> 1968.
>
> The count maybe right, indeed, this struck me as so true, the big harvest
> moon you just can't touch. But Charlock has the Dactyl, his Abel or
> enabler, I Should say.
> This book is dotted with such Philosophic gems and obscure Latinate words
> like crepuscular, part, perhaps of his Mediterranean revolt against
> northern Saxon verbal 'Puritanism'. Stay with this book, it delivers like
> the sun slowly rising over a broadening landscape.
>
> David Whitewine
>
> Sent from my iPad
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