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andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
Mon Apr 28 16:51:00 CDT 1997


lucifer Mixmaster Remailer writes:

  . . .

> Mason & Dixon is a paean to friendship, a buddy book about an
> English Don Quixote and a Scots Sancho Panza at large in the New
> World, a 1760s On the Road.

  . . .

Scots? Scots! Since when was County Durham in Scotland.  If the
reviewers didn't pick up on (and grimace at) all those `Why ayes' at
least this poor reader did.

    `Eeh, but tha's nowt sa queer as fouk, bonny lad, and nowt sa
     canny, eetha'


Andrew Dinn
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And though Earthliness forget you,
To the stilled Earth say:  I flow.
To the rushing water speak:  I am.



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