Hong Kong University, Black Box Theatre, November 16th. Organised by the SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, the literary evening was sponsored by Rendall & Co, who provided the wine and helped with post-recitative depressurization.
What fun it was to hear Page Richards reminisce about the midnight scones baked by Seamus Heaney’s wife and postulate, with cheerful confidence and solid statistical evidence, that poets are creatures of the night, while prose is for early birds!
And to hear Hong Kong’s Accidental Occidental, the charismatic David McKirdy, talk about the Peninsula group’s fleet of 1936 Rolls Royces, whose maintenance he supervises – like reading Horace on the subject of Augustus’ horse!
From Arthur Leung’s staccato delivery of his Ode to the Mass Transit Railway to Dorothy Tse’s surreal noir, the evening was a watershed for the linguistically thirsty.
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The event also coincided with the first public appearance of R&Co’s very own Côte du Rhône, Cherry Blue – 2013 vintage – named in memory of the days when your humble sponsor was serving as NCO in the French Alpine troups, where he came across that most rare of literary occurrences: an original military metaphor… For reasons shrouded in mystery, the 7th Bataillon de Chasseurs Alpins had banned the word rouge (French for “red”) from its vocabulary. To break the taboo could bring bad luck on the platoon or the whole regiment, and was considered a damning offence. To get around the practical difficulties encountered in everyday life, the officers, with unusual perspicacity, suggested the soldiers say bleu cerise (“cherry blue”). Not since Arthur Rimbaud deserted from the Dutch Colonial Corp, two weeks after landing in Java, and Guillaume Apollinaire’s fine brain took its fatal piece of schrapnel, have French poetry and the uniform come into such close contact.
May the future hold plenty more opportunities to pour libations to Tin Hau together!
Photo: David McKirdy reading from Bamboozled