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Recieved: 2001/08/10 02:46
Subject: [K-list] Philip L. Stallard
From: Lobster

>Was the name Lobster in any way suggested by TS Eliot's lines from Prufrock:
>"I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of
>silent seas".
>
>Perhaps, I've missed the mark, and you'll pierce my lack of comprehension by
>a literary citation from Alice in wonderland or Through the Looking Glass ,
>but only you can tell us if the original inspiration for Lobster has a
>literary basis.

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Dear Lobster, I came across this poem in a book called Persian Translations
and other Poems, by a Philip L. Stallard (a friend of your's perhaps), and
guess whom it reminded me of?
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Never the poppy bred such visions elfish,
Or hemp such horrors, as this simple shell-fish!

Here lie I in the still night watches
Why did I supper, and Oh, why!
And hear that inner voice, and watch the blotches
Rise and condemn me in the inner eye.

Face after face pursues; there's dear old Yorick
Beneath the earth these three and twenty years;
Old friends and strangers, the phantasmagoric
Rout hurries onward with their smiles and tears;

Till one that tarries links his fingers boney
About my arm, and leads me down the steep
 From wake to dreams, discarnate cicerone
Of the dim booths and raree-shows of sleep

Through gates red-rusted mourning on their hinges
By dim-eyed porters opened for us
By dripping avenues, and by the fringes
And reed banks of lakes that stretch before us

To ancient houses mouldering away
Mid lawns unshaven and by silent fountains
And locked about by forests where the day
Scarce reaches through the crags of crouching mountains

Or, then, where bells ring jocund down a glade
And dancing sunlight through green leaves
Lights a brave company of silken maids
And knights in silver greaves

But presto then the vision passes
The centuries spin round, and I
With aching brows sit out eternal classes
A-squaring circles and computing pi

Or wreaths with silly words an endless ballad
Even as now... all sprung of Lobster Salad.

Philip L. Stallard

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