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

Ron - are you OK?

Haven't heard from you in ages ----

Hope I haven't upset you with any of my obscure ramblings? I know I stray from the literary fold sometimes, and you are a man of honour, and 'sensibility and refinement' ---(PG Wodehouse?...)

Anyway, hope you're OK. Mind you, I have been away a lot, dealing with various matters up-country, so maybe I haven't been in the hub of the conversation ---

Helen

Hi Helen,

It's nice of you to enquire. I hope you and Chris are OK and enjoying yourselves in your creative pursuits this cold dark winter season.

You have done nothing to displease me Helen, and it would be most unlike you to do so, if I know you, and I'm sure I do! At least as an on line friend.

I like your open-minded approach to poetry and art in general, so nothing along those lines could possibly offend anyway!

Phred has also asked how things are with me. If you care to look at my reply, written just prior to this posting, you will get the full picture of what is troubling me at this time.

Speak to you again soon.

Ron

Hey Ron!

Thanks for replying - I hope things get sorted out with your eyesight situation - Yes, too much time on the screen is not the best medicine -

Thinking of you Ron ---

Nice to know you're missed anyway!

Take care sir, and we will 'meet' when we do -

I'm comin' and goin' a bit these days anyway --- apart from time spent up-country, I am spending more time in my scruffy old notebook, with pencils and crayons - scratching away at the page ---

The folks from The Post have been really good to me - printing out my poems - it has done wonders for my self-esteem - I think I have maybe two more poems pending in their files, but now the scrambled egg obscurity of my brain is creating poems that are too incomprehensible even for our neighbour's cat (upon whom I try out a lot of readings) ...

I feel like I achieved some kind of summit, and now I am on a glorious return-journey! I am not one for too much limelight! I would be a hopeless famous person! Far too sensitive ...

See you my friend - you have helped me so much with my writing -

Helen

Hello Helen,

I think you greatly underestimate your talents.

You reach a wider audience, I think, having your work published in 'The Post'. For that achievement alone you are to be congratulated. I could never write for our paper, mainly because my material is too serious, and is not meant to entertain and appeal to the younger element in h2g2, which I imagine to be the majority of our on-line colleagues.
What 'poetry' I do write is persistently self-centred, a habit I have continually failed to break. That's what comes of being cursed with a physical ailment and its long-term legacy; always having to consider the impact of any action on one's health and well being.

Fame is not the spur for me either Helen, I would not be able to handle the public scrutiny of my private life, not because it is dissolute in any way, but that it is so dull and colourless, as is the lot of the greater part of the population whose lives are mostly 'workaday' and looking after their families on limited incomes.

Those who have sought and achieved fame live in a 'goldfish bowl', constantly on their guard to avoid the attentions of the press, and unable to lead a life of any kind without the glare of publicity.

Hello Helen,

I think you greatly underestimate your talents.

You reach a wider audience, I think, having your work published in 'The Post'. For that achievement alone you are to be congratulated. I could never write for our paper, mainly because my material is too serious, and is not meant to entertain and appeal to the younger element in h2g2, which I imagine to be the majority of our on-line colleagues.
What 'poetry' I do write is persistently self-centred, a habit I have continually failed to break. That's what comes of being cursed with a physical ailment and its long-term legacy; always having to consider the impact of any action on one's health and well being.

Fame is not the spur for me either Helen, I would not be able to handle the public scrutiny of my private life, not because it is dissolute in any way, but that it is so dull and colourless, as is the lot of the greater part of the population whose lives are mostly 'workaday' and looking after their families on limited incomes.

Those who have sought and achieved fame live in a 'goldfish bowl', constantly on their guard to avoid the attentions of the press, and unable to lead a life of any kind without the glare of publicity.
Theirs is an 'unreal' existence, and for that reason many of them imagine that they can 'get away' with anything, only to realize their error of their ways when it is often too late to make amends.

And with that double posting, it seems I'm also going senile!

I like double postings
I like double postings

Shows you really mean it
Shows you really mean it

Take care my friend
As you are my friend

Helen
Helen

Thank you for your repetititititive repppplyy!