[lit-ideas] Re: gigawatt Counter-chlvalrous Terroristinflammatory Coma Painting handyman drainage
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 20:48:44 -0700
on 4/7/04 7:02 PM, Michael Geary at atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
ead it yourself, or
Piping is always
> the work of some handyman, we know that.
>
>
Piping is the work of the handyman who not only knows the grips but who also
has the lung capacity, musicality, gall, balls, and gigawatt genes from the
chivalrous but still inflammatory MacCrimmons ('twas their job to be
inflammatory, after all): Finlay, Ian Odhar, Donald Mor, Patrick Mor,
Patrick Og, Malcom, Iain Dubh, Ian Dall, Angus, John Roy, John, Angus...all
the way down to John MacCrimmon, the last of the line, who left Dunvegan
about 1795 and proceeded as far as Greenock, with the intention of
emigrating to America. He changed his mind and retired to his native Skye,
where even when he had the grip no more, he could be seen fingering his
favorite piob-mhor on a walking stick. He died in 1822, aged 91, having sat
a final day or two in the sun, beside sparkling braes and drainage.
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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