In point of fact I was more concerned about the attribution of the
inveigling, like smuggled tea, of the vile and ab-hominable practice of
paraphrase to the variously gendered inhabitants of this place, rather than
any nice concerns about that pig in a periwig, grammatical propriety.
I thought Mel Gibson was a mediaeval Scotsman re-employed by the Indian film
industry. Those cowboys, ha. Please explain the apparent historical anomaly.
I am puzzled too by your apparent supposition of a taste for Dryden and Pope
among Farmer George's German mercenaries.
Whom, to the best of my knowledge, although admittedly memory is an
unreliable witness, I have never knowingly entertained in my employ in the
late eighteenth century, in redcoats, or blue, or mauve, or sick-as-a-parrot
something resembling yellow.
Did Russell pass the roast? Positivistically? Logically?
db
----- Original Message -----
From: kent johnson <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: Is that a real theory or did you just make it up?
> david bircumshaw said:
>
> >Thank G-d for that. I was getting worried.
> >It comes from that place where they make all those pictures, doesn't it?
> >What's it called now?
>
> >Bombay?
>
> Dear Mr. Bircumshaw,
>
> I know it is impolite of me to write so much, only having joined this list
> yesterday (though it seems like a fortnight ago, what with having likened
> Peter Riley to Ted Hughes and telling Lawrence Upton that his father
smelled
> like elderberries!), but I have been stewing in my juices over your two
> replies to me, and I feel a few words are in order.
>
> It is by chance that the evening before subscribing to British-Poets I
went
> to the videotape store and rented The Patriot, starring Mel Gibson, a most
> handsome snackaroo from Australia. I put the tape into the machine and the
> picture show appeared on my color TV. Have you seen this film? The cruel
and
> savage behaviour of your compatriots toward my ancestors is appalling. On
> what basis, by what right, do you presume to correct my grammar given the
> history between our respective peoples? I would like to remind you of two
> things, please.
>
> 1) When Wittgenstein was at Cambridge, he said to Russell, while the two
> were at table, "Let us hope that one day a child in Bombay will have more
> importance to logical positivism than does the agreement of a pronoun with
> its antecedent. Would you please pass the roast?"
>
> and
>
> 2) Mel Gibson kicked Redcoat imperialist ass (though admittedly not hard
to
> do, given the suicidally stupid way your troops marched to the beat, like
> some plodding, insipid stanza from Pope or Dryden.
>
> cheers,
>
> Kent
>
>
>
>
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