[lbo-talk] This is Your Pilot Slurring

[Dorene Cornwell]

I'm way over quota for the day  and it's either great literature or the
litany of US-linked tortures so here goes: I had a short stint in college as
a research assistant for a very famous Sholokhov scholar. Mostly the gig
consisted of a bit of bibliography work like finding the standard English
titles such as Quiet flows the Don and editing his articles into forms
English speakers would find recognizable. The articles did not fill me with
deep desire to read the original texts unfortunately, despite sarcastic
comments about peasant amusements.

But now I am wondering about the pilot equivalent of taking away a drunk's
car keys.

DC

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> The follow-up bit where the husband and his brothers bludgeon the offending
> parties to death with farm implements will be entertaining for the village
> as well. If the woman was married, her husband will probably join the
> killing party or his honor will be besmirched and everybody will call him a
> pussy. They will talk about it for years. If the offending man is smart, he
> will get the hell out of dodge and become either a bandit or beggar, as luck
> and ability take him. If the woman is super-lucky, she will be spared, only
> slightly mutilated, and beaten regularly. Otherwise, her options are ugly
> death, escaping into the forest to starve, or, if through some miracle she
> makes it to a distant town, becoming a street prostitute.
>
> Peasant society was quite brutal. Ever read Quiet Flows the Don, the first
> chapter with the lynching of the witch?
>
> --- On Thu, 2/5/09, Dorene Cornwell <dorenefc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Dorene Cornwell <dorenefc at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] This is Your Pilot Slurring
> > To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> > Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 7:14 PM
> > Which if you think about it would have been highly
> > entertaining,
> > considerably more so than mere binge drinking and it would
> > give the village
> > something new to talk about to boot.
> >
> > DC
>
>
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