[lit-ideas] Re: Perversions of Genealogy -- and the Hyposexuality of the Rockies
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:26:33 -0600
I only read the posts of JL's which I think I might conceivably have a shot
at understanding at some time before I die. The rest I skim -- they
sometimes jar loose a thought or query I would not have otherwise had, or
they amuse me by osmosis, intuitively, w/ no attempt at analysis, cognitive
processing, or any delusion that I actually can make any logistic or
conscious sense of them. But, like the toddler would say of flashing lights
on a timed explosive device, "pretty!".
Julie Krueger
On Dec 16, 2007 11:04 PM, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>Personally, I think I deserve to be allowed to post to the list directly
> >>rather than
> via the rather specialized timings in the life and times of Andreas.<<
>
>
> Personally, I do, too, but apparently the natives are restless. I don't
> know why they whom you intimidate, irritate, flusterate don't just ignore
> your posts, but folks are funny. I've met people who once they embark on
> a
> book will read it through, each and every word, no matter how dull, stale,
> flat and unprofitable it proves to be. Me? I'll drop a book at the first
> hint of discontent. I guess in a similar vein there are those who feel
> obliged to read every post. I enjoy your posts but I only read half of
> them. Or maybe those Euros among us still have to pay by the minute to
> download -- that would piss me off, too, to pay to download forty-two of
> your posts, forget it. Corral that wild stallion, I'd shout.
>
>
> >>I don't think you mention where your Greene comes from, right?<<
>
>
> England is all I know. John Greene was born somewhere in England in 1590
> and lived thereabouts for 45 years before taking sail on the James in 1635
> to settle in Rhode Island. By 1730 there were Greenes living in Rhode
> Island, Virginia and South Carolina. This is my father's mother's side of
> the family. In 1800 in South Carolina, a Greene girl married a Sweet boy.
> And fine English stock those Sweets turned out to be, with real Christian
> family values as attested by the deed of Silvius Sweet to his son Silvius
> Mott Sweet in 1831 "conveying four tracts of land aggregating 1,590 acres
> of
> land and the following named negro slaves: Alphonso, Clinton, Prince Joe,
> Daniel, males; Bina, Millie, Clory, Agnes, Dolly, females and their future
> issue and increase." In the same record, Silvius Sweet deeded to his
> daughter Elizabeth Gauze, "conveying slaves, three males and six females,
> one bedstead, twenty head of stock, twenty head of sheep, one sorrel mare
> and one 2 year old filly." as recorded in Book B No. 1. page 480 in the
> records of Horry County, South Carolina, dated November 2, 1831. My great
> grandfather, Silvius Emory Sweet, the one who fought in the Civil War, was
> the son of Silvius Mott Sweet. One of his daughters, my great aunt, Emma
> Sweet spent most of her life gathering genealogical data to prove her
> pedigree, as a result she was admitted into the Daughters of the American
> Revolution and Daughters of the Confederacy, which always struck me as
> inherently incongruent, but that's just me. Before marrying my mother, my
> father would have to drive his aunts Emma and Lady to various county seats
> in their search for worth. He loved to tell of the time they returned to
> the car, solemn and taciturn, finally to say: "Well, he at least he wasn't
> convicted." No, not convicted, just hanged. He would laugh heartily
> every
> time he told the story.
>
>
>
> >>But you should pay serious attention to your idea
> that 'hypersexual' "is meaningless to me". You think you can treat a
> perfectly
> meaningful adjective like that and derogate it by calling it
> _meaningless_.<<
>
>
> You can't be too rich rich (hyperrich) or too thin (hyperthin) or too
> sexual
> (hypersexual) -- that's why it's meaningless -- like hyperinfinite is
> meaningless.
>
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
> hoping you're released from house arrest soon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 7:11 PM
> Subject: Perversions of Genealogy -- and the Hyposexuality of the Rockies
>
>
>
>
> >> I
> can't hold a candle to the Argentine Ligurian when it comes to
> Anglophilia --
> which has a decidedly perverted sound to me.
>
> Well, that was a bit rude, wasn't it. Just joking :-).
>
> Anyway, Andreas keeps me in this box, so it's somewhat hard to compile
> penetrating
> posts when I'm not even sure if he is going to distribute them or not.
>
> But the rather boring post you've read was an expansion of another one
> which
> I
> called "Why "Hellenism" is rude", which has not so far been distributed.
>
> Personally, I think I deserve to be allowed to post to the list directly
> rather than
> via the rather specialized timings in the life and times of Andreas.
>
> Anyway, this to correct my rush (if that's the word) writing of my
> previous
>
> >the Italian side of my family.
>
> is ambiguous in that it implicates that I have one side which is _not_
> Italian, which ain't true!
>
> There's this book I have on the fascinating Ligurians from which I may
> quote
> if I find another (Ligurian) on the list, or even if I find like reading a
> nice post written
> by me.
>
> I don't think you mention where your Greene comes from, right? Nice to
> hear
> they
> settled in Rhode Island -- which was once an Island, faithful and true.
>
> Anyway, I'm glad you find my anglophilia perverted. You should see my
> francophilia
> too.
>
> I'm cc this to atlas and the list -- feel free to publicise, or feel
> prize-tagged to publicise.
>
> Hypercharacteristic? I like that. But you should pay serious attention to
> your idea
> that 'hypersexual' "is meaningless to me". You think you can treat a
> perfectly
> meaningful adjective like that and derogate it by calling it
> _meaningless_.
> You do
> you think _you_ are? :-)
>
> I liked my phrasing that for rabbits, Andreas is possibly hyposexual.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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