[lbo-talk] Lincoln Gordon, he dead

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Wed Jan 13 20:18:49 PST 2010


On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:47:06 -0500 c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:


> It's Black English.

Well, Polish Black English, maybe, considering the original source.


> For some reason, T.S. Eliot put it at the beginning of "The Hollow
> Men".

Indeed. Who knows why Eliot did anything?


> (A penny for the Old Guy is a reference to Guy Fawkes the
> English anarchist.)

Anarchist? Hardly. A Jacobite -- not to be confused with a Jacobin.

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