with friends from way-back
when they were at school.
(here is one:
together we listened
to records of Tom Lehrer,
Ma Rainey, Séamus Ennis)
together we listened
to records of Tom Lehrer,
Ma Rainey, Séamus Ennis)
I'm sure that those of mine still living
would see me now as some sort of
adolescent ghoul.
Of a dozen I can immediately remember:
ReplyDeleteone is the Irish Folklorist pictured in the blog;
one is a retired professor of chemistry in Montréal;
one is a world authority on turtles;
his brother is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and specialised (amongst other things) in a trivial condition I have, namely Raynaud's Disease, and one (less trivial) that I had, namely post-viral depression;
another (or his namesake) received some stuffed-shirt business enterprise award in Belfast;
a sixth may be a seal-expert and a member Expert Panel on Science Issues Related to Oil and
Gas Activities, Offshore British Columbia - though this also may be a doppelgänger;
a seventh became a teacher of French at our school (which had mostly unacceptably-bad teachers, and probably still has) and then Secretary of the Old Campbellian Society.
A boy I had a lot of pre-pubertal sex with in a rhododendron thicket at school became an anæsthetist, and died some years ago.
Of the others I know nothing.