Well your student could also imagine a country where racketeering is
disguised as politics, where the economy has had a boom in the last decade
on the basis of EU subsidised tax breaks for multi-national corporations,
which have now finished their term, where, quite recently, most council
houses in Dublin had only outside toilets, where, in Ulster, there is now a
level of racial attacks on ethnic minorities that apparently exceeds
anywhere in Europe, where lies in public life are the norm, rather like
England in that respect.
I used to fall for pastoral myself, once upon a long time ago.
David Bircumshaw
Spectare's Web, A Chide's Alphabet
& Painting Without Numbers
http://www.chidesalphabet.org.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anny Ballardini" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 5:13 PM
Subject: Ireland
One of my students, 15 years old:
...
I think that people who live in Ireland are silent, peaceful and also
understanding. I imagine an old man sitting in his rocking chair with his
pipe. He is probably reading of the legends of the Middle Ages. Ireland
gives me a sense of solemnity and of an imposing value. I would like to go
to Ireland to visit the landscapes and walk through the wilderness.
...
Anny Ballardini
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
Prayer
Whatever happens. Whatever
what is is is what
I want. Only that. But that.
Galway Kinnell
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