david bircumshaw wrote:
> > What is an oink?
>
> asked Frederick.
>
> A vulgar West Midlands and no doubt elsewhere's nominative for that which is
> common, unsophisticated, etc etc
In my part of the country (whichever part that might be), we say"oick" rather
than "oink"
Kari
>
>
> An urban yokel. A farmyard noise on city streets.
>
> david b
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frederick Pollack" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 4:17 PM
> Subject: Re: Trotsky's Globetrotters (Was Re: epic)
>
> > david.bircumshaw wrote:
> > >
> > > > I see my tribe as that of rootless cosmopolitan intellectuals.
> > >
> > > Just pondering on your phrase, Frederick, with interest, in that against
> the
> > > package 'rootless + cosmopolitan+ intellectual' I would tend to see
> myself
> > > as, erm, waaal:
> > >
> > > 'rootless' yes on the grounds of an abolished family, a childhood
> > > disappeared under the bulldozer, and an inhabitation of that City which
> is
> > > Every City
> > > but no in that my voice, my accent, is stamped with what I am, am from
> > >
> > > 'cosmopolitan' only in my experience of Indian restaurants and in my
> dubious
> > > knowlege of other languages but profoundly provincial not only in where
> I
> > > live but also in that there is No True Centre anymore but its Myth is
> > > Everywhere so all of us are always inalienably oinks (but rootless)
> > >
> > > 'intellectual' - well wish I were it summons a bespectacled figure I
> read
> > > about in childhood but any modicum of self-examination tells me that I
> am
> > > only self-reflexively cognitive for a pitifully small portion of my
> waking
> > > time
> > >
> > > just wondering, how do others see themselves on this
> > >
> > > david b
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 2:34 PM
> > > Subject: epic
> > >
> > > > Wondering (again) if anyone ever looked up my two book-length
> narrative
> > > > poems, The Adventure (1986) and Happiness (1998), both Story Line
> > > > Press. Though the second was billed, against my wishes, as "A Novel
> in
> > > > Verse," both tell coherent, non-"splintered" stories in, I think,
> > > > authentically poetic, non-novelistic ways. I wouldn't claim that
> either
> > > > is an epic, but I firmly believe a revival of epic is a real, and
> vital,
> > > > possibility. Both my books were meant to contribute to that
> > > > possibility. The "tale of the tribe" aspect is certainly open to
> > > > reinterpretation; I see my tribe as that of rootless cosmopolitan
> > > > intellectuals.
> >
> >
> > What is an oink?
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