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From: Titus G <noone@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: The Trouble with Geraniums...
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:14:36 +1200
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On 23/06/25 06:46, William Hyde wrote:
> Titus G wrote:
>> On 21/06/25 10:27, William Hyde wrote:
>>> Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>>>           "The Trouble with Vampires" by Lynsay Sands
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The trouble with geraniums
>>> is that they’re much too red!
>>> The trouble with my toast is that
>>> it’s far too full of bread.
>>>
>>> The trouble with a diamond
>>> is that it’s much too bright.
>>> The same applies to fish and stars
>>> and the electric light.
>>>
>>> The troubles with the stars I see
>>> lies in the way they fly.
>>> The trouble with myself is all
>>> self-centred in the eye.
>>>
>>> The trouble with my looking-glass
>>> is that it shows me, me;
>>> there’s trouble in all sorts of things
>>> where it should never be.
>>>
>>> Mervyn Peake.
>>>
>>> s/geraniums/vampires
>>>
>>>
>>> William Hyde
>>
>> Sounds like Complete Nonsense to me.
> 
> But is the Dwarf of Battersea SF?  What would JRRT say?

I read the Complete Book of Nonsense decades ago and have not looked at
or remembered anything until your posts. I have no idea whether there
are serious references in it or not and I know nothing of Battersea.