> No -- do I know a man who does?
>
> best joanna
> > When it comes to Absolute Trivia, does anyone know just how many poems
in
> > the Sapphic stanza David Macbeth Moir published in Blackwoods Magazine
in
> > Edinburgh in the nineteenth century?
> >
> > The Canadian Boat-Singer
Well, you could always ask Richard.
I think there were five -- well, there were at least five that I know of,
but there may have been more -- none of which DMM republished in his
Collected.
(Which managed all of one printing, which nowadays would be described as
going straight into the remaindered section of Your Favourite Neighborhood
Bookshop.)
Deeply obscure.
Talking of chiaroscuro (which we weren't) does anyone happen to know where
the couplet:
She did not speak the French of France
But the surded French of Martinique ...
... originated?
Colonel Linebarger
(CIA South East Asian desk, rtd.)
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