I'm sorry to hear about the Craigslist fail. I hope the Allston possibility will work out, or that something else will come soon.
Thanks for sharing that quote. I'll have to order a copy of that book.
One alternate history, please, in which the winning of the Punic Wars by Carthage preserves the maritime Phoenician way of looking at the sea as the linkage of the world rather than the foot-miles of Rome.
Interesting concept--I reckon I'd read it. Although I'd have to say that the concept of the sea as a uniting thing's lived on in folk culture along the fringes of Europe. I'm thinking* on something I once read that said diocesan and parish borders in parts of Wales were at one time based on water travel rather than land, and I'm thinking I've read citations of papers on dialect-connections (in Welsh, in Irish, maybe Scandinavian languages? Not sure, as it's been an age) on the basis of water-connections as well.**
There's a poem I will share with you, soon's I find the book as it's not to be found online, or at least not to be found by me. I don't spell well in Shetlands, so I'd not trust myself to write it down from my memory.
*I started to write "I mind something..." Probably because I went looking to see if I could find the text online of a Shetlandic poem I'd like to share with you, the which I couldn't find, and as a result went on a sidewise wander through a blog in Scots. **The local Norwegian in Bergen had the rhythm and sounds of northern English, to my ear. It was a bit odd to hear that, and then realise I was hearing Norwegian and catching my usual one word in ten.
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Thanks for sharing that quote. I'll have to order a copy of that book.
One alternate history, please, in which the winning of the Punic Wars by Carthage preserves the maritime Phoenician way of looking at the sea as the linkage of the world rather than the foot-miles of Rome.
Interesting concept--I reckon I'd read it. Although I'd have to say that the concept of the sea as a uniting thing's lived on in folk culture along the fringes of Europe. I'm thinking* on something I once read that said diocesan and parish borders in parts of Wales were at one time based on water travel rather than land, and I'm thinking I've read citations of papers on dialect-connections (in Welsh, in Irish, maybe Scandinavian languages? Not sure, as it's been an age) on the basis of water-connections as well.**
There's a poem I will share with you, soon's I find the book as it's not to be found online, or at least not to be found by me. I don't spell well in Shetlands, so I'd not trust myself to write it down from my memory.
*I started to write "I mind something..." Probably because I went looking to see if I could find the text online of a Shetlandic poem I'd like to share with you, the which I couldn't find, and as a result went on a sidewise wander through a blog in Scots.
**The local Norwegian in Bergen had the rhythm and sounds of northern English, to my ear. It was a bit odd to hear that, and then realise I was hearing Norwegian and catching my usual one word in ten.