Not sure that this counts - the metric system in the UK?

Sorry this is the last show - but what an achievement!

Literally NOTHING of any interest is for everyone and I get twitchy when self-elected gatekeepers condescendingly insist that this or that art form should be available to all and that it's actually very straightforward and accessible. Nuts to that. All we need to do is dismantle barriers to access.

I've said this too often, but whenever some well-meaning clot insists that (say) 'poetry is for everyone' I want to point out that it's obviously NOT for everyone, but should always be for *anyone* and the same applies to everything from Miles Davies and Ulysses to Baba Ganoush and Sátántangó.

Has the poetry collection been published yet, do you know?

It's tremendous. Have you read his early novels 'Call Him Mine' and 'How to Be Nowhere'? And the recent short story collection 'Saints' (particularly recommended)? His superb story 'Hare' (about Beckett in London in the 1930s) appears in Tolka www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

Have you considered the timelines? A manuscript may be circulated and blurbs solicited a long time before the book (with blurbs) appears in print. Two years in one case (in my experience).

Söme Tame Gazelle

'Unresting death, one whole day nearer now'

Reminds me of this

I admire the 'do/did' sounds of 'In Xanadu did' - a kind of temporal elision between now and then.

I suppose the clue is that 'Khan' rhymes with 'ran' and 'man' in lines 3 and 4. Unless they were pronounced 'rhan' and 'mhan' in Coleridge's day.

Happy birthday Thomas! Does that taste as good as it looks?

Kim Novak: Hold my martini.