Lest anyone think otherwise, let it be known that: 1. I don't know anything about this drivel or the author 2. I don't know any French at all 3. My head is perfectly safe and I very much doubt my husband has designs on it with a tireiron, snow or not 4. I do not know or have any interest in learning the "Portuguese Locomotive" however when Ralph learns I'd like to see the video 5. I also am not given to "bundling" 6. Don't you dare tell this crazy galoot how old I am nor where I live or I fear I may have to defend myself with the tireiron I think that should clear up any misconceptions you may have had. Ruth At 3:42 PM -0400 4/7/03, Bruce Marcham wrote: >A Google search on "Les Neiges d'Antan" (inquiring minds got to know) >revealed this from Slate, posted here due to the references to "Ruth" and >"snow" but mostly in the interest of learning more about how to do the >"Portuguese Locomotive." Will you give lessons Ruth? > >I don't now good poetry from bad and don't know Gerald Stern or even Isaac >Stern (and I don't enjoy Howard Stern) so please excuse me if this is in the >latter category. > >> >Les Neiges d'Antan >By Gerald Stern >Posted Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 10:12 AM PT > >(Listen to audio of Gerald Stern reading "Les Neiges d'Antan" here.) > > >Where art thou now, thou Ruth whose husband in the snow >creased thy head with a tire iron, thou who wore >ridiculous hats when they were the rage and loved >exotic cultures and dances such as the Haitian >Fling and the Portuguese Locomotive, my wife >hated because of her snooty attitude >or that her hair was swept up and her nose was aquiline >and her two boys raised hell with our green apples >the Sunday they came to visit, she in whose Mercury >we parked for over a year, once every night >in front of her mother's house in one of the slightly >genteel streets that led into the park >the other side downhill really from the merry-go-round, >or where is Nancy or who is Nancy Ezra Pound >located in between his racial diatribes >and dry lyrics three times at least in the Cantos, >but tell me where that snow is now and tell me- >as in where is Tangerine and where is Flora- >how old Ruth is and where does she live and does she >still dance the Locomotive and does she bundle. >> >From: http://slate.msn.com/id/2059299/ > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Met History [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 7:46 AM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Ou sont les neiges d'antan? > > >''This used to be a nice place. They should make it like a Six Flags, or >something,'' said Spc. Robert Blake of State College, Pa. > >-- >To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the >uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: ><http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html> -- Ruth Barton [log in to unmask] Westminster, VT -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>