[lit-ideas] Re: Please, just fake authenticity for me one more time?
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:45:59 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
Can't help with admissions itthues--not my job, guv-- but on the subject of
authenticity, try this:
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1335612007
In the comments you'll find "drongoes"--new to me, apparently of Australian
origin and reinforced by the punk rock band, "legendary" from the "golden era
of chaos punk"--and "It's all a bit wee drum haw to most folk," which I believe
is an onomatopoeic reference to the rhythmic and repetitive nature of gaelic
singing. I am reminded of my mother's accounts of ceilidghs of her youth in
which, she said, miseries of the past were not transformed by art; they were
re-enacted in five hundred or so verses.
David Ritchie
learning every day in
Portland, Oregon
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