MDDM Ch. 19 Subjunctive Spaces and the Pygmies of the Eleven Days

[Dave Monroe]

See here, perhaps ...

Witherspoon, Gary.  Language and Art in the Navajo
   Universe.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1977.

"The Verbs of their language no more possessing
tenses, than their Nouns Case-Endings,-- for these
people remain'd as careless of Sequences in Time as
disengaged from Subjects, Objects, Possession, or
indeed anything which might among Englishmen require a
Preposition," indeed ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
>     His Lordship, as Mason relates, requir'd a
> People who liv'd in quite another relation to
Time,--
> one that did not, like our own, hold at its heart
> the terror of Time's passage, far more preferably,
> Indifference to it, pure and transparent as
> possible. The Verbs of their language no more
> possessing tenses, than their Nouns Case-Endings,--
> for these people remain'd as careless of Sequences
> in Time as disengaged from Subjects, Objects,
> Possession, or indeed anything which might among
> Englishmen require a Preposition. (195.6)
> 
>     "[...] 'Tis all an Eden there, lads, and only
> they inhabit it, they and their Generations. 'Tis
> their great *Saga*,--[...] the more curious of them
> ever pursuing us, as might Historians of Times not
> yet come, by way of the clues to our lives that they
> find in Objects we have surrender'd to the Day, or
> been willing to leave behind at its End,-- to them a
> mystery Nation, relentlessly being 'British', a vast
> Hive of Ghosts not yet vanish'd into Futurity...."
> (196.31)

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