Liked Martin's "furious belief" in an arcadian past - the Mercian
kingdom would be in there, I guess. Wonder if Geoffrey of Bromsgrove
can ever again get past the High Parliament to an earlier epoch. That
snotty-nosed kid was more appealing than the Provost of All England.
"Tribal affiliation"? Hmm. A fine fantasy. If that's what informs "Of
Piscator" then long live the tribe. A politically-incorrect saying of
the highest magnitude informed my boyhood: "You can tell a true
Coventrian by the shamrock in his turban."
What I'm pondering is whether it's possible to signal in the written
text the various Englishes. I suppose there are many discourses
available in the freeing-up accomplished by Prynne among others & these
are self-evident by their specialist languages. In another area, two
texts come to mind in terms of being open in a given place to the
languages of that place (stratified through time): Rosmarie Waldrop's "A
Key Into the Language of America" & Peter Riley's Excavations (hopefully
an on-going project, books 1 & 2 in "Distant Points") if I'm reading
these books correctly.
The first language of the place I live in may have been lost by now: the
Shuswap Nation here now are a part of the Salish People & have their own
language. I would love to learn it, but fear that would be a kind of
theft. I hope to collaborate with an aboriginal poet soon but he's from
another people elsewhere. Where is local anymore? I embrace & resist
the global village. Where do we go from hear?
Say,
Pete (former Hurl of Warwick).
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