[lit-ideas] Alan Sillitoe: A Gander in Jerusalem
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:25:42 EDT
In a message dated 4/27/2010 2:05:49 P.M. Argentina Standard Time,
ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
The Trip to Jerusalem,"
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Yes, he had an accent, Sillitoe did.
His name, literally, means, 'stupid thumb'.
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In the Centre for the Study of English Dialect, I have discussed Notts
accents at length. They say, 'yousself', and hisself. They say 'our Richie".
---- The problem with Nottingham is D. H. Lawrence. If I'm doing something
for the English Film Circle, they will be expecting me to play on my piano,
Forever blowing bubbles
which Russell used in intro to "Women in Love".
Sillitoe could be v. good. -- Without Finney, though, that "Saturday night,
Sunday morning" would have been A BIG BORE.
------ I forget who played the woman, but she (a Welsh lady I seem to
recall) was very good. She is also in "A kind of loving" and "Sporting Life" --
English working-class filming at its best.
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Nottingham is populated by a tribe, called The Notts. They dwelt in caves.
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Nottingham is not far from the stately home of The Duchess of Devonshire in
Chatsworth. It has some glorious countryside to it.
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I met someone from Leicester some time ago. We were discussing Orton, etc.
She told me: "When I was young, Leicester was in the south. Now it's in the
North.
I.e. in the days of midlands midlands, the passage Leicester, or Notts, to
London, was accessible enough. NOW, with Guy Ritchie and all the thugs not
caring to move away from their clubs in the most disputable areas of town,
the midlands are no longer mid -- they are gritty north alright.
---- The Dutchess of Devonshire was thinking of moving her house to
"Devonshire, where it belongs", she said.
J. L. Speranza
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