Entries by Chopi

For all you people who got smashed last night…

for all you people who got smashed last night or overindulged on food…. O wombe! O bely! O stynkyng cod! Fulfilled of donge and of corrupcioun, At either ende of thee foul is the soun; trans: (sorry probably not necessary but for me it was) O gut! O belly! O you stinking cod, Filled full […]

Sweet Princess Priya:

Sweet Princess Priya: I dont *write* good poetry, I only *copy* it, alas… *sigh*… (though in encourage myself by repeating the dictum from a once-famous man that while good artists borrow, great artists STEAL — so maybe next time i ought not to quote my source…) 😉 When we do meet in Hyderabad you will […]

Hello Priya! This is what I really ought to say…

Hello Priya! This is what I really ought to say to you, in the words of Odysseus, who, in book VI, shiprecked on Scheria, emerges naked and exhausted from the woods to beg aid of young Princess Nausikaa: “O queen,” he said, “I implore your aid- but tell me, are you a goddess or are […]

well, heeeeelllllooooooooooooo Princess Priya!!!!!…

well, heeeeelllllooooooooooooo Princess Priya!!!!!!! Many many many many thanks! we’ll make a point of coming around to looking you up in Hyderabad — just as soon as we get put together our elephant train, camels, harem slaves, etc. (we may have to stop here and there along the way for a tiger shoot, you know […]

Chopragupta The Great

dear friends– I thought I’d make my first entry with a word of thanks to my dear friend, Apaarjeet (also known in Poland as Prince Chopi The First:, Dr Chopi, or HRH Chopragupta The Great): “Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia. They were trained together in their childhoods; and there rooted betwixt them then […]