Good to have you back, Robin. Parse away, Parse
away....
Candice
--- Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> > Is the Rodent Dangermouse, by any chance?
> >
> > Candice
>
> More Dormouse than Dangermouse, alas.
>
> Perhaps even (re)Vole(ting).
>
> But, with thanks to those -- Barry, Roger, Peter,
> and now Candice -- who
> noted my return (though Roger may have noticed a
> more extended post about
> the same time on New Poetry) [and with less thanks
> to the person -- yes, you
> know who you are!-- who, backchannel, described my
> elegant extension of
> Mark's post, linking turtle pigeons to floating
> Dysons, as not simply folk
> etymology but as cod entomology. Hrumph!] ...
>
> However, to extend that "but" above, but.
>
> I've been slightly preoccupied with _A Blast For
> Blowens_, which is at long
> last beginning to be written (good -- from my point,
> at least), but (less
> good) now unnervingly stretches from the origins of
> cant in England in the
> 1530s to a series of historical novels, the last
> published just after the
> turn of the millennium, dealing with Sir John
> Fielding, blind magistrate of
> Bow Street and brother of the (in)famous novelist.
>
> Not to bore everyone (would I ever? especially as
> I've been warned not to),
> I won't even deploy the few tiny snippets of
> possibly original material that
> have turned up in the course of this. As, only last
> night, a few lines in
> Thomas Randolph's __Hey for Honesty, Down with
> Knavery_ (1650), or a
> singularly interesting short poem reported by Thomas
> Mount on the eve of his
> execution in Rhode Island in 1791, which indicates
> that American criminals
> in the late nineteenth century were aware of ballads
> being sung on the
> streets of London only ten years earlier.
>
> Unless, of course, I'm asked, pretty please.
>
> For now.
>
> Dun Rodenting
>
> > --- Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Best line in the film:
> >>
> >> "I...have HAD...ENOUGH of...you!"
> >>
> >> Dominic
>
> snip ......
>
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