A Bird, A Stone, and a $10 bill
Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 18:54:32 -0400
TheSecretGoldfish wrote:
> but what about merce cunningham critics?
Riverdance?
And a note on bills:
The first sentence of _Finnegans Wake_ graces the Irish 10 pound note,
along with a lovely ink portrait of Joyce. So we in the US would need
the first sentence of a major work by a noteable expatriot (or a dead
Saint) for our own bill.
T.S. Eliot has the glasses to compete with Joyce, and Henry James has
the statelieness to compete with Alexander Hamilton, currently on our
$10 bill. We need a figure in which these two qualities are
integrated--someone portraity-looking enough to displace Hamilton, and
someone funny-looking enough to keep us on par with the Irish.
--
Matt Kozusko allpunsintended@parallel.park.uga.edu