Talk about the past (A 12" by The Wake, on Factory Records)

[hirez]

Quite a long time ago, when we lived in the big old house that has since been on the telly because someone who was on the telly rents it, Pa kept an ornate cabinet against the wall on one side of his office. It was opposite a big metal-enamelled thing that was called 'The Potez' and which emitted warmth and a pong of burning oil

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[quercus]

Weird, I was reading history on the AN/FSQ-7, just today.

[hirez]

It would not surprise me to learn that woodburning stoves are better when they stick out into the room, rather than hiding in the chimney and hoofing all the warmth up the big hole in the house.

When I scrape the cash together for getting the blasted chimney lined + stove, I shall totally have one. Chopping + wheelbarrowing wood of a weekend was something of a chore, but oddly theraputic. And it burned off hangovers and smelled good. Well, while the wood wasn't apple, anyway.

[jarkman]

In my head, that Potez is a 50's version of HAL.

[hirez]

It would be French. Like Alphaville.