Subject: Re: a terrific writer dies
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2000 - 10:02:26 EST
'.....make that two....'
I assumed Matt would hate him on the principle that
more than two days' exposure to Oxford turns all homespun
hill-billies into dandy-lynching Anglophobes (see J.F.B.Clinton.)
I thought you, having been already already innoculated
with haggis-juice, would have known better. But no. I should
have remembered that colonials too - with all that embarassing
flaunting of what they naively think of as their 'Celtic' roots -
are just as brutish, just as vulnerable, just as sullenly resentful,
just as blind to the subtleties, the elegancies, the ironies of those
Artistocrats of Nature, the ENGLISH.
(Although as a Welshman, Powell - like myself - had effectively
suppressed those unfortunate features of having belonged, originally,
to a fringe people.)
Scottie B.
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