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On Wed, 29 May 2002 00:14:00 +0100, david.bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Erminia >I did not employ Eliot's word 'purify' (that idiosyncratic translation of >Mallarme's rather different meaning) in my allusion to it, only the >'dialects of the tribe' phrase, which, you must admit, is quite memorable. > > >David Bircumshaw > > David, yes, but please consent me to disagree with Eliot's idea of the tribe. Although anthropologically significant for each of us, our tribes are our graves. And I wanted to step - in all the possible senses - out of mine. erminia