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Comment 2 of 2, added on March 21st, 2006 at 3:59 PM.
Not only a gentleman in the old fashioned sense of the word but a visionary who took the early lead in Green issues long before it was hijacked by
hordes of Toby and Amanda's that now fill our news with their twittering's learned by rote from their University courses. If their was ever a case for sainthood surely John would be at the head of the column. I rather admire his shambling English approach to events that peeve him, he writes a poem in this case that satirises the whole mess that we call civilisation now. Oh dear John Elysium is lost for ever, replaced by this awful American ersatz blob. However your words will ring through the ages as proof that there was civilisation once. We salute you
Paul Wiseman from Australia
Comment 1 of 2, added on August 30th, 2005 at 12:04 PM.
A beautiful poem which questions the destrucive modernising which was occuring and still is. I fell in love with this poem when I first heard it, both because of the message which it conveys which, but also the aggressive manner used to drill it's message home.
Michael from United Kingdom
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Not only a gentleman in the old fashioned sense of the word but a visionary who took the early lead in Green issues long before it was hijacked by
hordes of Toby and Amanda's that now fill our news with their twittering's learned by rote from their University courses. If their was ever a case for sainthood surely John would be at the head of the column. I rather admire his shambling English approach to events that peeve him, he writes a poem in this case that satirises the whole mess that we call civilisation now. Oh dear John Elysium is lost for ever, replaced by this awful American ersatz blob. However your words will ring through the ages as proof that there was civilisation once. We salute you
Paul Wiseman from Australia