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THE
HANDSTAND originally came out in four editions,
intermittently, in l986.PRINTED ON NEWSPRINT sheets and
pinned together, eight pages, large and unwieldy. Yes, it
was very awkward to handle and its stance was too. Twice before in different decades I had exercised the right to print and sell pamphlets and news-sheets on the streets of Dublin. The first one I put out was called UP BROADSHEETS after a certain obsession James Joyce had for those two letters of the alphabet. The second was called THE TREBLIN TIMES. The unfortunate way these prints melted away reflects certainly on some qualifying factor that failed them. That failure mirrored only in finance. I could not obtain Art’s Council Grants, and the content was the objection. The Arts Officer would stroke his bald pate, but when I asked Humpty Dumpty to get off the wall…. he would look at his wrist watch for the last time. I would sell out my edition but break even only and the cupboard shelves, could I let them lie empty ? The landlord always had his grasping hand on my future. Who is there to object now to an Internet issue, extending the ideas I maintained in a social world where academic excellence existed only to curb the young restless student population, prevent the publication of dissent, and to allow chauvinist attitudes to prevail in a Catholic and muted world of alcoholic disputes among “poets.”? The only book of Poetry of my work published in ’94 was called The Electric Bolt Hole. Now that Seamus Heaney’s new volume called Electricity has come out, can I presume that some thread of mine, cast in poems to his address has bound him up!? So now may I address the huge wide world with alacrity, and may I hope that this project catches the eye and interest of those writers and draughtsmen, who want to exercise their craft therein. Ms. And jpgs should be sent to jocelynb@eircom.net; and please observe that I have the rights and rites of editor to maintain. This issue contains work from both THE HANDSTAND and THE TREBLIN TIMES to give an impression. All incoming work receives the author’s copyright only, which may be expressed re. forwarding by others. I have no financial payments for anybody, and this journal will carry the spirit of free enterprise for any mind, and require humour and political enterprise for ideas, also journalists, poets, scientists who are not going to bad-mouth one another, but encourage dispute among ideas. To work, so….. Jocelyn Braddell, editor. R.Braddell, photographer, musician and assistant. TRES BELLES INTIMES To assemble just one edition of this paper is to experience the theatre of human ambitions in a really divine light! Because the resources of the human brain are hidden there is both conscious and unconscious resistance to re-evaluation or its possible impact on large numbers of people…. The general level of informed opinion is maintained in a confused and aggressive state, and to achieve any impression of this confusion one has to first assess its mass so that at least the peripheral bubble of one’s own ambitions and ability does not burst… Mordant authors whose sarcasm betrays their failure to create a novelty can nevertheless form an entire reputation on the substance of a shadow play. Noh play, as the intellectuals put it…. To carry the divine analogy to its ultimate let’s consider the individual who lurks about or stumbles along quite unlike the President or God. Are people becoming so unaware of their individuality, that someone prepared to go to all lengths, except in competition with another, to express a unique formula for a game, is becoming a rarity? Is it in recent times only that we’ve learnt that some information doesn’t have a value unless it is a well kept secret !! All over the modern world people are creating new ground for communication and understanding of their situation. TREBLIN TIMES will try to break new ground, rejecting the clique system that prevails in this country to which there has been a psychological response to an equivalent repression. Remembering the gypsy synonym for words – the leaves of the trees; autumn takes its toll from the deciduous as gracefully as it can. September 1973. Price 5p |
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