On May 16, 12:07 pm, Blue Sow <janet.r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> > Are you aware of any traditions of sonnets
> > in celebration/preparation of the winter
> > solstice?
>
> That might depend on what 'tradition' means in this case. Certainly
such
> sonnets exist. Would you be the sort of person who celebrates
solstices?
>
Celebrates is perhaps the wrong word.
As a "returning student" in the '90s
I went to a few Solstice parties but
noted a somewhat monotonous routine
emerge:
The drink would've run out, the 'buses
would've stopped for the night, I was
quite a way from home, it was too late
to go anywhere fun, and whatever spliffs
I knocked together tended to disappear
off somewhere and nothing ever came
back to me.
Then between 4 and 6 breathless people
would run in, in a panic, because some
clot I'd never met, having got into an
addictive debt cycle and split up with
their Pandora, would've gone and thrown
themself under a train, off a bridge or
into a reservoir. This tended to bring
anything that still resembled a party-
atmosphere down to several metres below
ground.
As far as the summer goes, there isn't
a person I can think of who's told me
I can't say I've lived until I've set
up a tent and dossed down in the Eavis'
back garden at a total cost of about
=A3500 whose opinion I consider worth
even considering considering, considering.
It's fairer to say I make a bit of time
to reflect on the persistence of observable
phenomena underpinning contem****ary astro-
physics in the face of 1500 or so years'
worth of infallible denial--and this was
long after the Greeks had done the math.
Provided it's not going to affect their
business adversely I don't see why any
employer should have my shortest or my
longest day of any given year.
But I think "Celebrating" is stretching
it a bit. It implies lots of people and
they are the last thing I can bothered
with on any of the days. I did toy with
the idea of being still for a bit either
side of the moments of inertia until I
realised there are no moments of inertia,
per se.
So I just find somewhere with a nice view
for a while, and maybe take advantage of
it being about the last time it's possible
to enjoy a good drinking session in winter
for at least a week or so.
I suppose I kind of concluded the whole
idea of "celebrating" is for people who've
missed the point somewhat.
G DAEB
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