Hey, no fair! We're all on the edges of our virtual seats
now, waiting to hear about Flanders.
Come on, Dave, what's the dope on those poppies anyway?
Candice
At 12:27 AM 2/14/01 -0000, you wrote:
>Correction Candice - I am a West Midlands Englishman living in the East
>Midlands.
>
>And as where I live is now a marker of what cultures I can speak about am I
>to take it that from henceforth you are going to restrict your remarks to
>matters of North Carolina culture?
>I am planning an interesting series of notes on the avant-garde in
>Ashby-de-la-Zouche, as well as what's on in Derby, I have special allowance
>from the county authorities for my transgression of boundaries on that, and,
>a note of controversy here, bee-keeping as a paradigm of poetic form, an
>introduction to the philosophy of Alfred Grudgings, of Ratby, Leics.
>
>And that's my last word on this matter too.
>
>david
>
>
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>Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 11:28 PM
>Subject: Re: Wales and Welsh Writing
>
>
>> Hi, Liz--in fairness to Matthew, we should remember that he made a
>> couple of appeals for any Welsh listees to come forward and speak
>> with the authority and expertise that he himself lacked (as he also
>> repeatedly acknowledged), since he's neither Welsh nor, by living
>> and working in Wales, in the position of an East Midlands Englishman
>> to evaluate and pronounce authoritatively upon Welsh culture. I'd be
>> inclined to credit him for his valiant efforts to counter the dubious
>> ethnocultural claims being made about his adopted country--and for
>> the good sense to seek some expert opinions from his colleagues in
>> Wales and to share them with us. I certainly found Chris Meredith's
>> post very interesting and informative, just as I did David Kennedy's
>> thoughtful review, in which he teased out an ambivalence of sorts
>> among Welsh poets toward their culture. Unless Matthew misquoted
>> either of the Davids, which no one has suggested he did, then there
>> wouldn't seem to have been any misrepresentation--so I can't see
>> anything wrong myself with his handling of the Matter of Wales.
>>
>> Candice
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