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Re: Father/Motherland

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, May 25, 2000, 14:59
Jonathan Chang wrote:

> To me, Lady Liberty always struck me as being rather "butch" (big, > stocky, rather hamfisted, & oh so Germanic looking [yes the French built HER, > I know]).
IMHO Marianne looks like she comes from Alsace as well. New fave word: "Elsasserung" ("Alsatianization"): a derogatory term used in the South Tyrol (German-speaking part of Italy) for the slow disappearance of German from a historically German-speaking area. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)