In Buffalo right now it's -6C and has been painfully like the artic. I am
glad to hear that the sun had not died :-)
Best, Geoffrey
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From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: Reading Williams / Whitman
> At 10:17 PM +0000 1/25/03, Árni Ibsen wrote:
> >I'm pretty sure both poets would have found that to be appropriate and
> >complementary. Esp. since that particular event takes place in three
> >different albeit related languages, i.e. faroese, Icelandic and Danish. I
> >already saw it in The Faroe Islands in the summer, and profess it's great
> >fun.
>
> I've only read the text, never seen it... it put paid to my much
> touted position that the vocabularies women had for their fannies
> were hugely limited compared to those for men. (Actually, the
> American usage of fanny, being "bum", is very funny to us down here;
> we still tend to the English usage, meaning vagina, so to fall on
> one's fanny is rather painful and physically challenging image.)
> That disparity between male and female terms is true if you look it
> up in dictionaries and so on, the male slang goes on for pages; but
> clearly oral history, the "mother tongue", is the place to look for
> these private vocabularies, and it's more a comment on the biases of
> those word hoards than on the language itself.
>
> >We've just had 5 days of frost and already it's warming up again!
> >Unbelievable. Sorry not being able to send you the temperatures you need.
>
> Thankfully today is much cooler than forecast, 24 rather than 38, so
> I am feeling slightly saner today. 44 is no good for human, beast or
> vegetable. All my poor flowers burned.
>
> Best
>
> A
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