tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post1014291916092775483..comments2024-01-08T19:49:13.932+00:00Comments on Froogville: A brush with deathFrooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06738623732860210935noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post-53889776711167102652007-04-22T08:50:00.000+00:002007-04-22T08:50:00.000+00:00Unlucky in love again, sir? She wasn't a redhead ...Unlucky in love again, sir? She wasn't a redhead by any chance, was she? I remember your predilection for that colouring.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post-80345143186207710432007-04-22T03:19:00.000+00:002007-04-22T03:19:00.000+00:00I hadn't meant this to be about you-know-who. It ...I hadn't meant this to be about you-know-who. It started out as just a little comment on the deadliness of bicycles here. It was just that she was so dominating my thoughts at the time that EVERYTHING I wrote ended up being about her in some sense. (I remember many years ago reading a letter of Wilfred Owen's about the writing of his poem 'Miners'. He'd been on convalescent leave back in England and, reading about a mine accident, had decided to write about that, to give himself a rest from dealing with the subject of the War; but he found that irresistibly, inexorably the new poem became taken over by a series of metaphors about the War. Same thing with me here.)<BR/><BR/>This image did seem so apposite for her, because she gave the impression that she felt that something like a love affair was somehow external to her, something she couldn't (or didn't care to) understand: she didn't know where it was going, and had no control over it. I think she was deluding herself about that; I think she easily could have foreseen what she was going to do to me, and could have taken steps to avoid it, or at least to soften the blow. "Or a rider incapable/ of comprehending their use".Frooghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06738623732860210935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post-57886323509974329632007-04-16T04:30:00.000+00:002007-04-16T04:30:00.000+00:00accusatory.poignant.accusatory.<BR/><BR/>poignant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com