dialectic-despair

[David Morris]

It's pretty funny.  Almost like Valley-girl meets Scottish 18th C immigrant.

On 11/13/06, David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Viz, Amy the Goth Milk-Maid of Manhattan, on p. 400:
>
> Amy is dress'd from Boots to Bonnet all in different Articles of
> black, a curious choice of color for a milkmaid, it seems to Mason,
> tho', as he has been instructed ever to remind himself, this is
> New-York, where other customs prevail. "Oh, aye, at home they're on at
> me about it without Mercy, she tells him, "I'm, as, but I _like_
> black,"-- yet my Uncle, he's, as, 'Strangers will take you for I don't
> know what,' hey-- I don't know what, either.  Do you?"