[lit-ideas] Re: LUMBERJACKS IN BLACK DRESSES

  • From: david ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:33:15 -0800


On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:51 AM, Mike Geary wrote:


a lumberjack's lumberjack

The model being, a "painters' painter," or a "poets' poet." Two questions:


why is Mike apparently in favor of woody apostrophal monogamy?
what of all the other occupations' preferences?

a professors' professor
a gleaners' gleaner
a strippers' stripper
a phlebotomists' phlebotomist
some sagger maker's bottomknockers' sagger maker's bottomknocker
many outsourced call center operative scriptwriters' outsourced call center operative scriptwriter
a would-be inscriber of the Body in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's inscriber of the Body in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Baudrillard's Baudrillard



David Ritchie Portland, Oregon

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