Re: Green Icebergs

I guess all I can say, Scottie, is that the Irish I've hung out with
were different...but then, they were all over here....

Jim

Scottie Bowman wrote:

> '... the Irish generally love life ...'
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> Yes, isn't it pretty to think so?
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> A Polish expatriate chum of mine once remarked
> that the only people of his acquaintance more morose
> were the Russians - whom they resembled in other
> ways: their gross alcoholism, their talent for turning
> self pity into literature & so on.
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> Dubliners, incidentally, must be distinguished from 'the Irish'.
> Like Cockneys, Berliners, (? New Yorkers?) & metropolitans
> everywhere, their lack of illusion, their irrepressibile instinct
> for mockery marks them as a different crowd altogether.
> (The mail boat to Liverpool & London was always there,
> waiting moored at the North Wall, an ever present means
> of escape from Father O'Flynn, his whisky breath,
> his shit-covered boots & his dribbling fantasies of hell.)
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> Scottie B
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