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posted 24-09-2008 09:40
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...or "Do my homework for me"
I have got to research Larkin.Any interesting titbits I am unlikely to find elsewhere?
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posted 24-09-2008 09:43
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He had issues with his parents.
But everyone knows that.
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posted 24-09-2008 09:52
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He was called Philip.
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posted 24-09-2008 10:24
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Is this meant to be biographical research, or lit crit?
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posted 24-09-2008 10:36
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He was librarian at Hull Uni, and now the library there is named after him.
He went around on a bike.
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posted 24-09-2008 10:55
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I think most of the "titbits" are fairly public domain, to be honest. Liked porn, was mates with Kingsley Amis, wore glasses and so on.
I think you should read the poems. Someone on here (toro, is it?) hates them, but I think they're great.
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posted 24-09-2008 11:23
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It is biographical research to be presented before we read and analyse the poems. I guess it saves the lecturer work.
Someone did the same with Lawrence yesterday before we read Snake.
I will look into the porn link naturally
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posted 24-09-2008 11:33
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He had more girlfriends (at once) than seems feasible for a balding, middle-aged librarian. He not only liked reading porn, he also wrote some. (Spanking and schoolgirl lesbians were his thing). He affected to be miserablist (in his poems) and racist (in letters to Kingsley Amis), but seems not to have been seen as such in real life. He was a very good librarian. He was a very good poet. His Dad was a Nazi. He was from Coventry. He liked jazz.
And, apparently, his mum and dad tucked him up every night. (They didn't mean to, of course. But they did.)
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posted 24-09-2008 12:28
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He wore an orthopedic shoe, looked like Patrick Swayze and worked in John Menzies.
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posted 24-09-2008 12:53
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He liked jazz.
He liked old jazz, that didn't threaten his sensibilites in any way.
He liked anything that didn't threaten his sensibilities in any way.
He disliked anything that did threaten his sensibilities. In particular, Pound, Parker and Picasso.
He was a very skilful poet, who put his great gifts into becoming a much cleverer Pam Ayres.
That is all.
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posted 24-09-2008 13:28
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Toro De France wrote:
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He liked jazz.
He liked old jazz, that didn't threaten his sensibilites in any way.
He liked anything that didn't threaten his sensibilities in any way.
He disliked anything that did threaten his sensibilities. In particular, Pound, Parker and Picasso.
He was a very skilful poet, who put his great gifts into becoming a much cleverer Pam Ayres.
That is all.
What terrible crimes. He should have been shot.
(Pam Ayres? WTF?)
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posted 24-09-2008 13:44
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A skilful and damning comeback.
Can I haz been pwned?
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posted 24-09-2008 13:46
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wasn't it larkin who said 'everyone thinks sex began in 1963 along with the beatles'?
LOL
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posted 24-09-2008 13:49
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Firebrigade Jones wrote:
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wasn't it larkin who said 'everyone thinks sex began in 1963 along with the beatles'?
LOL
No, he said he had sex with beetles in 1963, whilst reading 'Lady Chatterley'. Get it right, boy.
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posted 24-09-2008 13:50
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Toro De France wrote:
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A skilful and damning comeback.
Can I haz been pwned?
Speak English, damn you.
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