[Milton-L] Exhibit and link

[Mike Selby]

I had a dream once I smoked a join with AS Byatt....I don't even know what this means though.

Mike Selby
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  From: Nancy Charlton 
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  AS Byatt in today's Guardian reviews an exhibit Compton Verney, Warwickshire, "The Fabric of Myth." This article traces relationships of literature to spinning and weaving. This encompasses things as diverse as "Lycidas" and Kevlar. As to the former, she notes the ferocity of "the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears/ Slits the thin-spun life. As to the latter, with so much literary spinning being done by spiders she notes in passing that some goats have been bio-engineered to secrete a spider protein stronger than Kevlar that has been made super-strong by spider genes. "Two of these goats, Webster and Pete, have been bred in Canada to transmit spider genes to their offspring."

  This show runs to September 7, so IMS9 attendees might venture into Shakespeare country for this.

  Nancy Charlton

  http://books.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,335159392-99930,00.html
  http://tinyurl.com/4njflq


  Nancy Charlton
  http://groups.google.com/group/paradiselostdaily

  Be frustrate, all ye stratagems of hell,
  And, devilish machinations, come to nought! (PR I.180-181)



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