[lit-ideas] Re: Missing G. and Hereabouts
- From: david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 13:41:52 -0700
On Oct 18, 2016, at 1:06 PM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
So before I forget his name, where is Mike Geary? Some scammer hijacked
his email and periodically sends out advertisements for various things, not
to the whole list but to several people in his address book. I sent Mike a
note at the time telling him of this but never received a reply. Of course
Mike being from Tennessee and restricted a while back from booze, he may have
said the hell with it and gone on a bender, then gotten in a bar fight and is
now serving 12 to 18 months in the local slammer, something benign like that.
But how would we know?
Two possibilities occur to me: realizing that he understands very little about
Arsenal F.C., Mike has taken a leaf out of the politicians’ book and gone on an
all-expenses paid fact-finding tour of British soccer. The other possibility
is that he’s taken himself off-list for a while so that he can focus of writing
and other important matters. He’s done that several times.
While I have your attention let me express astonishment that none of you seems
astonished by the idea of a Native American people being named after a
nineteenth century British novelist. Is there a whole group of tribes I know
nothing about: the Fenimore Coopers, the Dickens, the Hugos?
I checked this list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_First_Nations_peoples
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
and found what you might expect, people calling themselves names in their own
languages.
The Wyandot (or Wendat) caught my eye. Either Pecorino or Rocky, I forget
which, is a Wyandotte. I shall have to ask if there’s an ancestral connection.
Carry on,
David Ritchie,
Portland,
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