Thanks, mate.
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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: Totally Off-Topic Question
> Thanks Christopher, Edmund -- gives me a point to start from.
>
> Roger, sometimes you can be quite infuriating -- tell me on Monday.
>
> Andrew -- I don't have any sites on Gypsies, that's partly my problem, but
> if you go here:
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/b
>
> ... there are lots of George Borrow texts, including some I'd never heard
> of. It has all the main ones: Wild Wales, Lavengro, Romany Rye, Romano
> Lavo-Lil, The Bible in Spain, and The Zincali (Borrow's account of the
> Gypsies in Spain).
>
> Now, if someone +really+ wants to make my day, point me to where I can
find
> a copy of The Blowen's Cabinet of Choice Songs (c. 1830). This apparently
> contains poems of such surpassing obscenity that even the British Library
> doesn't have a copy.
>
> Robin
>
> (suffering from pre-tooth-extraction insomnia)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Burke" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 4:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Totally Off-Topic Question
>
>
> > Hey, guys, those of you with interesting texts and such re gypsies, why
> > not
> > publish some here? or at least the sites? Poetryetc has been a little
> > quiet
> > recently - Maybe a visit from the gypsies would liven things up :-)
> >
> >
> > Andrew
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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