Re: The Trouble with Geraniums...

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

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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.
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The trouble with a diamond
is that it’s much too bright.
The same applies to fish and stars
and the electric light.
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The troubles with the stars I see
lies in the way they fly.
The trouble with myself is all
self-centred in the eye.
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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.
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Mervyn Peake.
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s/geraniums/vampires
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William Hyde

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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.