[Bg-dance] Fwd: If All the World Were Paper

[Kathy Goeke]

It has been my experience that whimsy is very underrated in today's world!
Katherine Who Used to Dance

"I love deadlines.  I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams 
 
 

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 From: Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com>
To: Barony of Bryn Gwlad European Dance list <bg-dance at lists.ansteorra.org> 
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Bg-dance] Fwd: If All the World Were Paper
  
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Charlene Charette <charlene281 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> I see a difference.  Interrogativa Cantilena / "If all the world were
>> paper" just seems like silliness, so far as I can tell. For example,
>> I can't think of a meaning for
>>
>>> If all the world were sand-o,
>>> Oh, then what should we lack-o?
>>> If, as they say, there were no clay,
>>> How should we take tobacco?
>
> I don't much about smoking history, but if the pipes of the time were
> made of clay then the verse makes as much sense as the others.

I expressed myself badly.  It makes sense in the sense of, yeah, it
logically follows from an impossibility.  But I don't see a purpose
behind it other than whimsy for the sake of whimsy, more like the Spam
Spam Spam Spam Sketch than even the Ministry of Silly Walks sketch.

Daniel de Lindocollino
-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
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