it begins with “be-”, not in the sense of the word “begin” but in the medieval intensifier attitude of “beloved”; it has a long vowel that ends in a K sound which sounds wonderful—like “yoke” or “ache”—especially when tumbling from the lips of a girl who from time to time speaks English as it should be spoken; it contains the word “spoke,” which is a rich word both because it could mean “speaking”—an excellent pastime—and it could refer to the axes of a wheel which fascinate as they distribute weight across the circumference of the circle (intuitive theoretically of course but always, it seems to me, slightly out of whack with our often linear habits); in FACT, while drawing upon the conversational meaning, it uses “to speak” in quite an odd, kind of imperative way; it is (I hope anyway for my own sense of peace, pride, and prejudice) an esoteric bit of jargon which automatically initiates anyone who knows it into a philological fraternity; that fraternity is totally superficial (ha!) and, if I understand its scope, pretty much pertains to clothes; it kicks the shit out of the much more denotative “custom-made”; and what could possibly be better than something personal anyway? See full list!

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Bespoke Love	M. Brun	List	Critical	971	5	12-Dec-07
Radicle Shoots	Tintin	Portfolio	Creative	1570	4	9-Nov-07
Shepherd Break	Tintin	Picture	Critical	1482	4.67	16-Oct-07
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The Exquisite Closeness of Old Age	sakurachan	Picture	Creative	2064	4.86	6-Jun-07
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