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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