G. Lineker
Alan Ross, 6 December 1990
“... A style suggested by a name, A way of comportment, of playing – In the merging of ‘line’ and ‘glint’ Necessary elusiveness, hint Of mother of pearl, ‘nacreous’, As in the opening, knife-edged, Of two halves of an oyster. In the music of Satie there is Similar opportunism, echoes And chances taken up, exploited – ‘Striker’ and ‘lion’, a ‘cur’ Hanging around on the off-chance ... ”