The Enormous Yes
- philogguk
- Mar 12, 2021
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 12, 2021
Follow-up to the previous post - when the old Foyles bookshop closed on the Charing Cross Rd, some wag did this to the sign. I really liked it - a bit like Yoko Ono's secret message that made John Lennon fall in love with her... There was a chance to say something positive and they took it!
On me your voice falls as they say love should,
Like an enormous yes.
Philip Larkin, 'For Sidney Bechet'
Yes,quick thinking indeed! I'm more.." I wish I'd said that at the time..."brigade!
Until I read your words, I thought it was Spanish. Oyes: you hear or do you hear? It’s going to take me a while to get over the Larkin, if ever.
Here’s part of a poem for Sidney Bechet by Wynton Marsalis from Jazz ABZ. It goes for another two pages. The article about John and Yoko made me think of this postcard I saw while going through some yesterday: “Brotherhood/Sisterhood by Barbara Shinn. Hmm, why would I be going through postcards?...
Yes I like the bookshop sign too. I hadn't heard about how John and Yoko met.