> > It's Black English.
>
>Well, Polish Black English, maybe, considering the
>original source.
What about considering the character who spoke the words?
> > For some reason, T.S. Eliot put it at the beginning of "The Hollow
> > Men".
>
>Indeed. Who knows why Eliot did anything?
So funny I forgot to laugh.
Chinua Achebe came up here a couple times in the last few weeks. Here's an interesting discussion with him about Heart of Darkness:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/feb/22/classics.chinuaachebe
>Chinua Achebe, father of modern African literature, has long argued
>that Joseph Conrad was a racist. Caryl Phillips, an admirer of both
>writers, disagrees. He meets Achebe to defend the creator of Heart
>of Darkness but finds their discussion provokes an unexpected epiphany