Luke Willis

From: Luke Willis <srub@asda.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Sep 5, 2006 6:38 PM
Subject: killer qualm

Fowls did not flourish at Bailey Farm, in spite of all that Marchdid for them. But whatever the reason may be, it is a fact that one must deplore. It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must bewoman-manly or man-womanly. But after reading achapter or two a shadow seemed to lie across the page. Thus all their qualities seemto a woman, if one may generalize, crude and immature. Moreover, the economists are telling usthat Mrs Seton has had too many children.

Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. Now my belief is that thispoet who never wrote a word and was buried at the cross-roads stilllives. Coleridge perhaps meant this when hesaid that a great mind is androgynous. But whatever the reason may be, it is a fact that one must deplore. By so doing you will certainlyprofit the art of fiction. Two heads on one body donot make for length of life. Do not dreamof influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it soundexalted. Fowls did not flourish at Bailey Farm, in spite of all that Marchdid for them. Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Being honest as the day and logical as the sun, there isonly one thing he can do. One must finish the sentence somehow, I rebuked myself. Coleridge perhaps meant this when hesaid that a great mind is androgynous.

You have never shaken an empire orled an army into battle. You have never made adiscovery of any sort of importance. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. How can I further encourage you to go about the business of life? Back one was always hailed to the letter I. He carried off the hens underthe very noses of March and Banford. Rather, he must pluck the petals from a rose or watch the swans floatcalmly down the river. He must not look or question what is being done. Nothing came down the street; nobody passed. It was sodirect, so straightforward after the writing of women.