Re: CHAT: Miscellaneous Nonsense

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> But that ought to be at least a 200 square meter room at the top of a
> building, with half the roof consisting of glass, to give the daylight
> the painter or sculptor needs. In such a place, starving artists are
> supposed not to care that they are freezing in winter and melting in
> summer --- and they'll go to the cheap local cafe to eat (on credit),
> so they don't need kitchen facilities anyway.
I still cherish a line from the 1980's _New York Times_:  "It is still
possible to starve in a Soho [NYC] garret, just not cheaply."

> The right word is bedsitter. But I suppose that doesn't sell as well.
In addition to being unknown in American English.

--
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
de rapport nyait pas.               -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"