Jj (for Abu Nude-wise)

[abu nuwas]

Ed, well the idea was to drown him!
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Shem, well it is easy to write "not so bad" when you rip off Eliot. Hardly a feat to be proud of.

dale the borrower

The story of the entrance of 'Rimb' was quite comical. Verlaine and another poet had rushed off to meet him at the station, but missed him. So Mrs Verlaine and her rather shrewd Mum had this gawky boy to themselves, acting like a kid who had run away from home, very gauche and rude, as teenagers are, and wearing clothes that were all wrong with trousers too short. He was described as having a ruddy peasant face. Verlaine, who had been singing his praises to all his Parnassien pals, finally comes flying in, with poet, and warmly embraces him, until it strikes him too, that it is a bit inappropriate. It is a cameo of a moment of social ineptitude, and general awkwardness, It all went down the toilet from there, of course.