h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I suppose I write poetry because I cannot tell you what I feel any other way. And as a communication addict, I have to in some way let the world know.

That sounds true to me. When I was depressed, I often wrote 5/6 poems a day. I haven't written a proper one for a long time. It's a good way to communicate - but most of the poems were depressed.

I'd like to read them none the less...
Poetry usually comes to me in depression, but not always... Sometimes as now I have a line floating around in my mind thats looking for the rest of a poem, regardless of mood.

Well, who knows, I may show you sometime. But I don't have many at university with me, as far as I know. I may have some on Meg, but I wrote most of them on Eddie, you see...

I shan't try to understand that....
I really hope you do.

Hmm - Oh, I'm sorry. "Eddie" was the name of my old computer - an Amstrad PC-1512 (made around 1986-8). "Meg" is my "new" Amstrad Mega PC 386SX. What I write on "Eddie" is on 5 1/4 inch disks, and I do not have a 5 1/4 inch disk drive on Meg, only a Mega Drive.

My first computer was my 486, doesn't have a name, but certainly a character...
My PII333 laptop is in need of a name, I *think* its a girl, she seems friendly but a little moody...

I name almost everything - but it made my housemate Garfie very mad when I told him that Roasted Amoeba & I had named the pink tea-towel "Graham" (she's a girl). Incidently, my bike is called "Mullofkin" - no-one under 30 seems to get the joke.

Neither do I...
My flute is named Cassandra and my Piccolo is Pasha....

It's because of a famous Wings song - Mull of Kintyre.
and bikes have tyres, you see...
Everyone over 30 gets it instantly.

Sorry, Blue, I would have if I could

I got the tyre part 'over thirty'.
Enjoyed the poems they had feelings
sad/happy, thats a good sign, I can
see in my mind, more of the writer,
feel more in tune.

Pasha for a piccolo.
Love the name, found out its something
to do with a turkish officer.

T

I thought Pasha had something to do with Eastertime...
I'm glad you like my poems

That's Paschal.

Yes, but it has the same root, especially if I spell correctly: Pascha

It makes a little more sense that way

Only a little?

Paschal = Easter never made much sense to me in the first place

Foreign language for rebirth? I never really thought about it, I just took it as read: the Paschal Lamb who died for our sins... and so forth. Its amazing the things that never occur to me.

It's my Dad's middle name because he was born on Easter Sunday