Showing posts with label Scots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scots. Show all posts
Friday, May 26, 2023
Monday, September 24, 2012
Daily Dose
From Among Friends, by M. F. K. FisherGO
"Go into any Gaelic lilt or a Marseillais thump or an Oklahoman drawl and I am out the door, as long as it is on paper."
From 19, The Separation of the Senses, or Not
Monday, April 16, 2012
Daily Dose
From Witch Wood, by John BuchanYON
"Yon was him in the kirk the day, yon body with the fernietickles and the bleary een."
From Chapter XVI, The Witch Hunt
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Adopted Scots Clerihew
MICHAEL FABERDutchman Michael Faber
Chooses not to labor
In his native tongue or nation
Being "Scottish by formation."
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Daily Dose
From The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History, by Hugh Trevor-RoperSCOTS
"...it was natural that Scots, seeking compensation for the end of their independent history and politics, should turn to discover and appreciate their native literature. Unfortunately, when they looked for it, they could not find it. There was none."
From The Search for a Celtic Homer
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