‘Neath Adam’s Grave I push “large chips”
down through my teeth and grasping lips...
Didn’t Strabo state that ancients ate
Their fathers’ bodies on a plate;
And drank the fluid that now gets hid
In a silver cup, under a silver lid?
Somehow their presence is up here still;
Watching me watching, on the hill.
Gordon Kingston
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Gordon writes -
"For me the two most memorable lines in the The Modern Antiquarian book have always been these;
"Atop Knap Hill I eat my snot
For 'tis the only food I got"
"Magic. Driving north from Pewsey, for the first time (overloaded at a chipper), I saw what he was writing about..."
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