The great James Thurber. This was one of my very favourite cartoons when I was but a child; and I had a lot of favourite cartoons. I particularly loved that Thurber allowed the disenchantment to belong to a little girl… And no, here in Baroque Towers we’ve still never shaken the innocent’s belief that someone might be able to do something about it…
Right now, Mercury is retrograde. I know; it’s silly; but at the moment everything they say about Mercury being retrograde seems to be true x10. Mock not; I only found out it was thus after I’d noticed that everything was going pear-shaped. If I were Ted Hughes I’d be writing lots of letters to senior poets telling them all about it – essentially, something like this: “Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” Then again, as Mercury is retrograde, it’s likely that the letters would get lost and arrive late, or I’d find myself unable to find a new typewriter ribbon, or to say quite what I meant… Or they wouldn’t pay any attention, they’d write back going, “Ted, mate, you just need to calm down.”
And they’d be right.
Anyway, this is my last post on wordpress.com. Sometime tonight (it’s so exciting!), my baroqueinhackney.com domain will turn, like a compass, to point to a glorious new splendour that I have been making in the past two weeks. For I have worked out my disenchantment on a brace of new websites, which together will show you all, I am come to tell you all, everything I can do. Especially if there’s money involved. The copywriting and corporate communications one is katyevansbush.com, and it’s already live. The poetry and cultural one is baroqueinhackney.com, and it will contain all the old content – so you’ll lose nothing by following it – and there is a kind of hush all over the word as we wait for it to move forward…
If you’ve got baroqueinhackney.com already bookmarked – as I know some of you have – you’ll go straight to the new site. If not, just go and remove “.wordpress” from your bookmark and then it will take you to the new site. And if you’re a subscriber here, I’ll love it if you click the subscribe button on the new site. Yes!
I’ll still be disenchanted, though. We’re all disenchanted.
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