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Di
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I paint opera, theatre and ballet sets and also murals. I also make wire sculptures. www.diarts.org.uk Two cats Easily bribed with biscuits Seeking a bit of sanity here in a world that seems to have lately lost the effing plot
![LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE.
[This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him].
After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts:
Unloosed, unheralded,
You soar toward me
Across the dying afternoon.
bright disc of childhood,
Long since thrown wide
Of Youth's green imaginings,
Your slow declining arc
Figures a sky-written truth:
We will all succumb, and soon
To earth's hard oblivion.
[The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibpyscry7bddmufqnk7wsfuxsflv4fkn4brwvkzxqurjkz7z67yoi)
![Gill Plimmer's article "How a glass of recycled sewage helps on water shortages" reminded me of the mind-boggling proposal from the American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (Special Reports, March 21). He declared: "Every cup [of water] that passes through a single person and eventually rejoins the world's water supply holds enough molecules to mix 1,500 of them into every other cup of water in the world. No way around it: some of the water you just drank passed through the kidneys of Socrates, Genghis Khan, and Joan of Arc."
David Coombs
Corby, Northamptonshire, UK](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vqka4tmwebdtqdtt63jbnx4v/bafkreiajxqpbt6mwi3umt3bssi6v3owtnnvkec53nji5htkg767npdko24)
