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Derradah Rank: Toyah	An absolutly brand new Mitton thread replied on: 1/19/2006 1:56:27 AM quote: Oh no, not that ridiculous jiffy bag nonsense again! I'd thought the letter Sinclair wrote to me concerning the matter had put an end to it way back in 1996! Quote - "Jiffy bags arrive here, Charlie might like to know, at the rate of 7 to 12 a week. Some contain tapes, some photocopies, some books. Many are sent by Whitehead. If Charlie wants to get any deeper into that madness, he should apply directly to the man himself. As for the bet, you've won it. But, I guess, you'll never prove that. What use is my word? It could all be part of the conspiracy. Time for Charlie to reinvent himself. As understudy for another author, a less demented series of texts." - Iain Sinclair BTW, I'm sorry if at times it seems I'm being overly negative and dismissive, but I'd prefer to think of myself as performing some kind of quality control function. Ultimately there's some very interesting stuff buried within these Mitton threads, and the world - or mine at least - would be just that little bit duller without them. "Space is left for the interventions of chance -- the contents of a brown Jiffy bag wait to be incorporated -- and, both as walker and writer, Sinclair is always ready to pursue lateral openings." Michael Hofmann. (New York Times. Aug. 29. 1999.)
Derradah Rank: Toyah	An absolutly brand new Mitton thread replied on: 1/19/2006 2:15:05 AM " Matters became confused when I published a novel, Dining on Stones, that made play with the shifts between fiction and documentation, between East London (the A13 corridor) and a coastal exile. The really strange moment came when, out of nowhere, I met a Dublin poet I hadn’t seen in forty years, on the sea-front in St Leonards. I gave him the book. He rang me, in deep shock. It was his story, he said. The right building, the lost books and wives, the underworld connections. I seem to have transcribed this man’s memoirs, without having the faintest notion that he’d moved to the coast – or having thought about at him at all since I left Dublin (except when I noticed his name, from time to time, on the credits of cop shows like The Sweeney). My thesis, about fictions existing independently of their supposed authors – a poetry of place (Henry James, Conrad, Ford, Stephen Crane remaking English prose) – was proved by the collision with another writer. And the feeling that my book, and my very existence on the coast, might be no more than shadows of a more real banishment." This quote from Sinclair for 'The Argotist Online' with Rupert M. Loydell seem very reminiscent of ' The B'ham Triangle' and the parallel nature of the Mitton and Whitehead projects.If Sinclair did not recognize this then he is obviously lying (or joking).Matey obviously has no sense of the rhizome as an image for getting at the type of literary practice we are hinting at. But then he never reads or researches the texts in question.
m8e Rank: Ozzy This message was updated on 1/20/2006 10:19:22 AM by m8e	An absolutly brand new Mitton thread replied on: 1/20/2006 9:55:14 AM Charlie might like to know that I had a good chat with one of his biggest fans last night - a girl with purple hair and piercings named Shelly, who says she absolutely adores his tapes and CDs, and reckons she's been into him since her schooldays. Anyway, I was thinking maybe Chas should get a big poster of himself made up so she can stick it on her bedroom wall. Or how about a Mitton T-shirt he could sell at his blues festival gigs? Could become a real cult fashion item.
Ariel HS	An absolutly brand new Mitton thread replied on: 1/22/2006 6:07:43 PM The shirts sound good. I liked the photo that Doc Sausage posted of Charlie with a bottle of voddy in him in Chamberlain Square.
bounder chairman of the board Rank: Ozzy	An absolutly brand new Mitton thread replied on: 1/23/2006 1:16:29 PM I'll happily design them, & although I'm not springing to produce a batch I know where an enterprising Charlie Mitton Fan Club member (i'm looking at you matey) could get them done fairly cheap.
KingoftheHeath Rank: Jasper	The orotund peal of a bell... replied on: 1/25/2006 12:33:58 PM In the spirit of all things Mittonian, I've just finished a reading of Iain Sinclair's 'Edge of the Orison'... Nominally based on the walk made by the 'mad poet' John Clare from Essex to the outer edges of Nothamptonshire, it takes the form of a series of walks which digress into drift meditations on English landscape, the social and political climate of England, Samuel Beckett, Stan Brakhage, water, genealogy, James Joyce and PB Shelley interspersed with sutures by the usual suspects (Catling, Petit, Moore)... No mention of Birmingham (or the strange attractor)...apart from a reference to the Ibis hotel... As we know, the Ibis was the bird of Thoth, taking 3 forms (2 of which were associated with water)... The Stan Brakhage film 'The Wonder Ring' (which was commissioned by the folk artist Joseph Cornell) was shown in Birmingham on Saturday afternoon at the Midlands Arts Centre...
m8e Rank: Ozzy	The orotund peal of a bell... replied on: 1/28/2006 3:52:18 PM quote: In the spirit of all things Mittonian, I've just finished a reading of Iain Sinclair's 'Edge of the Orison'... Nominally based on the walk made by the 'mad poet' John Clare from Essex to the outer edges of Nothamptonshire, it takes the form of a series of walks which digress into drift meditations on English landscape, the social and political climate of England, Samuel Beckett, Stan Brakhage, water, genealogy, James Joyce and PB Shelley interspersed with sutures by the usual suspects (Catling, Petit, Moore)... I found out the other day that Sinclair is distantly related to Samuel Beckett. And both of them were educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where Beckett began his studies in - oh yes - 1923.
Russ-L Rank: Jasper This message was updated on 1/28/2006 9:34:31 PM by Russ-L	An absolutly brand new Mitton thread replied on: 1/28/2006 7:06:30 PM A young Oscar Wilde also studied at Trinity college, Dublin. He was born in 1854. Now, if you strip away the century-denoting annotation, 54 is a doubled (2) twenty three plus 2 times 3 plus 2. Twos and threes. Uncanny. (Edit: 'Dublin' added to make clear the relevance. I wouldn't want anyone to think this connection rested on vague foundations)
m8e Rank: Ozzy	An absolutly brand new Mitton thread replied on: 1/29/2006 10:43:50 AM quote: A young Oscar Wilde also studied at Trinity college, Dublin. He was born in 1854. Now, if you strip away the century-denoting annotation, 54 is a doubled (2) twenty three plus 2 times 3 plus 2. Twos and threes. Uncanny. (Edit: 'Dublin' added to make clear the relevance. I wouldn't want anyone to think this connection rested on vague foundations) Mock ye not the Mittonian rhizomatic synchromesh, Russ. I dared to once and ended-up having my computer stolen.
Russ-L Rank: Jasper	An absolutly brand new Mitton thread replied on: 1/29/2006 4:59:01 PM Unless it was the twenty-third time you've been burgled I fail to see the connection.
Gravy Hole Rank: Oddie	An absolutly brand new Mitton thread replied on: 1/30/2006 2:21:21 PM Something terrible's happened.
Russ-L Rank: Jasper	An absolutly brand new Mitton thread replied on: 1/31/2006 5:39:24 AM Are you saying that's the connection, or is this a new observation?
Gravy Hole Rank: Oddie This message was updated on 1/31/2006 3:24:50 PM by Gravy Hole	An absolutly brand new Mitton thread replied on: 1/31/2006 3:21:55 PM quote: Are you saying that's the connection, or is this a new observation? Who? Me? Erm, neither really. I'm just saying something terrible's happened. It's not really a new observation, more of a new Mittonian ACOP. Terrible it is, terrible. And new. My brother got hit by a bus last week in Malvern. That's not the terrible thing though, it's actually quite funny to see one's brother in pain.
Russ-L Rank: Jasper	An absolutly brand new Mitton thread replied on: 2/1/2006 5:53:56 AM Malvern is so pretty.
m8e Rank: Ozzy This message was updated on 2/5/2006 11:06:56 AM by m8e	An absolutly brand new Mitton thread replied on: 2/5/2006 10:33:46 AM quote: My brother got hit by a bus last week in Malvern. Go on then - it was a number 23, wasn't it?
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