[lit-ideas] Re: On Nip Thievery
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 15:22:32 -0230
OK, sister, the jigg is up. Who are you and what have you done with Julie
Krueger?!
Sgt. Walter O.
Homicide Division
Fifth Precinct
Montreal, QC
Quoting Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Ah, the heady, intoxicating and slightly mad days of early summer when
> dizzying heat and free days explode.
>
> Somehow I think a week or two ago I might have pulled this sweater apart,
> thread by thread, but bikinis have not enough yarn to spare and I frankly
> have not the ability nor inclination to make sense of any of this. So
> instead I will dream tonight of sword fights over whisky, Swedish maids
> wearing pork pie hats pooling in Bali, and children dancing in mud huts with
> fruit on their heads. Of course, all of this will doubtless take place in
> Spanish, with a Scottish accent.
>
> Just one question, though -- did War of the Worlds cease to be literature
> (or take a hiatus from being literature?) when thousands of people listening
> to it broadcast believed it to be factual? If so, what restored it to
> literature-status? Is the category of "literature" dependent on the reader,
> the author, reality as we or any one of us may know it, static or fluid?
>
> I suppose the easiest answer is both all and none of the above.
>
> It's a wonderful night for watching A Midsummer Night's Dream....
> preferably Adrian Noble's.
>
> Julie Krueger
>
>
> On 6/5/08, wokshevs@xxxxxx <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > As we had suspected, the mud hut is quite the hovel. And those vacations
> in
> > Bali
> > you are forced to endure! Doesn't the university have a faculty
> association
> > or
> > union? The children definitely look starved and despondent. Symptoms
> > clearly
> > attributable to all that fresh fruit they get every day. (Be honest,
> > there's
> > not a box of Kraft Dinner within a thousand miles of the house, right?)
> > And
> > the absence of any pix of the Swedish maid is most telling.
> >
> > (What IS that thing in the bathtub?)
> >
> > Walter O.
> >
> >
> > Quoting Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > > Walter O. wrote:
> > >
> > > "What does Phil E's "mud hut" really look like out there in the
> > > jungles of Borneo? A description of interior furnishings and maid
> > > service would also be appreciated. (I doubt that Phil wears a grass
> > > skirt to class. At home, perhaps ...)"
> > >
> > > In an earlier part of my life, I lived for three years in a mud hut.
> > > Well, it was actually two round hovels joined together, but the walls
> > > were made of mud. The thing about mud walls is that you have to
> > > protect them from the rain. Traditionally, one would make the walls
> > > low enough so that the roof, usually some sort of woven grass, could
> > > hang over far enough to keep the rain off. However, in my time people
> > > were building bigger houses and using paint. The problem was that
> > > people didn't want to spend too much money on paint, understandable
> > > given that they often literally had no money. So, people would try
> > > and use as much paint as was necessary. Unfortunately, they
> > > occasionally got the mixture wrong and so every rainy season there
> > > would be a few homes where the walls literally washed away and the
> > > house collapsed. We kept a healthy coat of paint on our walls.
> > > Another thing about mud walls is that one can't put nails in them for
> > > hanging pictures and such. I tried once and put an inch round hole in
> > > the wall.
> > >
> > > Our walls here are made of brick. The house would be what I think is
> > > known in the U.S. as ranch style. In our yard we have banana plants
> > > and two papaya trees. And we have lots of ants. And not just one
> > > kind of ant but several. Ah, the tropics.
> > >
> > > For those interested, pictures of house, home and environ may be had at:
> > >
> > > http://picasaweb.google.com/phil.enns
> > >
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > >
> > > Phil Enns
> > > Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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