addendum....

ok, so.....having had a glass of wine and a nice hot bath...i need to revisit my evening of cultural delights......for starts.....i got to sit next to the l.o.......who i admire for so many reasons......i was exceedingly amused when collins took a few questions from the crowd, and a student asked for advice he might give to an english major aspiring to a creative writing career....and mr. collins replied that jealosy was the key...that jealosy of better writers drives the boat of your own creativity.......and i was suddenly reminded of our tour of the gaudi-designed mansion in barcelona where whispers of the jealosies intrigued us so........all these details are still clear to me because i took notes.....being the only c-dub on hand i felt that i ought to take notes......mr collins started off with a riff on yeats...who once said that a poet never speaks as to one at the breakfast table......or thereabouts....and his poem in answer to that sentiment was so very clever as to be brilliant.....i have no idea if the books i bought contain this piece.....i neglected to buy the newest volume because it was in hardback.....my bad....and this was the bulk of his recitation.......and since i had no book signed...i suppose i could make it my quest to wait him out......and buy 3 paperbacks next year for the price of 2 hardbacks today......or i could simply drive by the centre bookstore tomorrow and buy the conundrum hardbacks at full-price and mail them off to my deserving literary offspring.......hard to tell what the mm will do with the extra cash she earns explaining critical health issues (refer to sex before poetry......) to the unsuspecting masses...........