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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>For a little extra local colour on Pirate buses, see one of Vivien Eliot’s unpublished (until now) pieces of fiction, titled ‘Bridge’:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> ‘I like best the pirate buses: they are a penny cheaper,’ said the German well pleased and unctuous. The party shrieked. The German looked surprised, then sullen and puzzled.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> ‘I never dare ride in them,’ said Felice, ‘the drivers seem so wild and reckless, they drive so badly.’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> ‘Then you <i>ought</i> to ride in them, to help them get experienced,’ said André.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>from Ann Pasternak Slater: <i>The Fall of a Sparrow: Vivien Eliot’s Life and Writings</i> (Faber & Faber, 2020, p. 603)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Stephen<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+sbarkway=btinternet.com@lists.osu.edu> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf<br><b>Sent:</b> 05 April 2021 17:43<br><b>To:</b> vwoolf@lists.osu.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] Fw: Fancy not knowing that!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Vara’s brought my attention to this article:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>h<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/londonist.com/london/transport/londons-pirate-buses__;!!KGKeukY!nkFdJmmBCfmKNAqdtzR2Kcpyw9-OesdXBf5cWkmp-LqqrTY9TU_OCxaGA_cHxJ4Khng$" title="ttps://londonist.com/london/transport/londons-pirate-buses">ttps://londonist.com/london/transport/londons-pirate-buses</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Now, the first (non-advert) picture you see is of a London General in Trafalgar Sq. If Elizabeth had *not* taken a pirate, she might have taken this one, as the 38 went along Victoria Street (I think). Here’s the real thing in Trafalgar Sq:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><img border=0 width=412 height=298 style='width:4.2916in;height:3.1083in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D72A63.19122F30" alt=image></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>The article is biased against the pirates. How capitalist do you want to be? Are you in favo(u)r of competition? Do you want public transport nationalised? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Here’s a more balanced assessment about when Arthur George Partridge started Chocolate Express bus routes:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><img border=0 width=364 height=484 style='width:3.7916in;height:5.0416in' id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D72A63.19122F30" alt=DSC07327></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Stuart<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> Monday, April 5, 2021 5:18 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> Jeremy Hawthorn ; vwoolf <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> Re: [Vwoolf] Fancy not knowing that!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I have to admit that I thought the same about pirate buses. One of our VWSGB Members told me. Now I’ve discovered lots of info. Below is the most famous: the “Chocolate Express”.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Here’s an example of something I didn’t know I didn’t know until I found out I didn’t know a few years ago: what’s a street scavenger? They pop up in T. S. Eliot’s ‘A Cooking Egg’ (1920): ‘The red-eyed scavengers are creeping | >From Kentish Town and Golder’s Green’. They are also mentioned in “The Years” and “Jacob’s Room”.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Answer: persons ‘whose employment is to clean streets, by scraping or sweeping together and removing dirt’ (OED).<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Stuart<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><img border=0 width=644 height=484 style='width:6.7083in;height:5.0416in' id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D72A63.19122F30" alt=DSC07322></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> Jeremy Hawthorn via Vwoolf <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> Monday, April 5, 2021 4:48 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> vwoolf <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> Re: [Vwoolf] Fancy not knowing that!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>It's a good example of what for many might be an unknown unknown: those unfamiliar with cricket might well assume that the nets are for tennis. (Another unknown unknown for me was the pirate bus in Mrs Dalloway - which before you contextualised it, Stuart, I thought was just a bit of romancing on Elizabeth's part. Annotators, I agree, need to be alert to the possibility of such ignorance.) The things we know we don't know can always be looked up; the things we don't know we don't know remain unresearched.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>J<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>On 05.04.2021 17:23, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>It was intended as a gentle tease of foreigners outwith the Empire – but also an implied criticism of annotated editions that don’t explain what readers might need to know.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Stuart<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> Jeremy Hawthorn via Vwoolf <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> Monday, April 5, 2021 4:10 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> <a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> Re: [Vwoolf] Fancy not knowing that!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I suspect you of playing "tease the foreigner" Stuart! I had a memory that when in Hollywood, Sir Cedric Hardwicke expected all expatriot Brits to turn up for net practice for the local cricket team, but could not find this on line. But I did find this, from around the time of <i>The Waves</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>"The headmaster of High Wycombe Royal Grammar School, Mr. E.R.Tucker, in an effort to stimulate the interest of parents in school affairs, has arranged cricket practice at the nets for fathers once a week."<br><br>Evening Post, Wednesday August 14, 1935<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>On 05.04.2021 16:40, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>When the boys are at school in “The Waves”, Louis “said”:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>“We are parting, some to tea; some to the nets ...”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Alles klar?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Stuart<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>(Day 384)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre><span style='color:black'>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>Vwoolf mailing list<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'><a href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre></blockquote><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>_______________________________________________<br>Vwoolf mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br><a href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre><span style='color:black'>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>Vwoolf mailing list<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'><a href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre></blockquote><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>_______________________________________________<br>Vwoolf mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br><a href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>_______________________________________________<br>Vwoolf mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br><a href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>