Talk:Lesbia Harford

Latest comment: 12 years ago by Erictimewell in topic June 2012
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Editors regularly clean out undiscussed links from this article. Please discuss here if you want a link not to be cleaned out regularly. (You can help!)--VS talk 04:34, 27 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

VS talk has removed an external link to a website which I publish containing information on Lesbia Harford. I have not contributed at all to this article, so conflict of interest is not involved. I believe this link is still relevant to the article. To avoid a conflict of interest, I should not post the link to the article myself unless it has been discussed on this page. Other editors are free to post the link if they think it is relevant.

might help some if you could provide a reason for these deletions. i've put it back as it obviously isn't spam  ⇒ bsnowball  09:45, 4 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
No need to shoot the messenger Bsnowball. Link with reasons is provided above at you can help - just following guidelines, and only acting after discussion with another admin.--VS talk 07:08, 5 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Periodicity, Set to Music by Redgum but which album?

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Redgum set this poem to music, although they didn't use the first three stanzas. They began "Women.....". Nice tune too. I think this should be mentioned but which album was it? I'm thinking it was Virgin Ground but am not sure. Might have been Brown Rice and Kerosene. Jeremytrewindixon 10:47, 30 September 2007 (UTC)Reply


My friend declares
Being woman and virgin she

Takes small account of periodicity

And she is right;
Her days are calmly spent
For her sex-function is irrelevant.

But I whose life
Is monthly broken in twain
Must seek some sort of meaning in my pain.

Women, I say,
Are beautiful in change,
Remote, immortal, like the moon they range;

Or call my pain
A skirmish in the whole
Tremendous conflict between body and soul.

Meaning must lie
Some beauty surely dwell
In the fierce depths and uttermost pits of hell.

Yet still I seek
Month after month in vain
Meaning and beauty in recurrent pain

May 2012

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Trying to strengthen the references and some life information. The cause of death seems very dubiously implied. Likewise her interest in Free Love. As for her Nachlass, I'd like to know the whereabouts of the MS of her novel. Must be somewhere. Erictimewell (talk) 05:47, 6 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

June 2012

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Birth and death information has been straightened out. So has the place of her novel's MS. I have tried to get photos of Lesbia and of a political painting by Pat from Australian state libraries under the barbed wire of Wikimedia. Clashing pedantries have made this futile. Maybe she is better off without them anyway. Erictimewell (talk) 07:14, 3 June 2012 (UTC)Reply