Mario: Thanks very much, I think I can work that one in.
Jeri: Hi, thanks a lot, also. It's been too long since I've been in the Press Room on a Friday night. Fause Foodrage is a good one. I am working, incidentally, on the sixth (and final one)of a series of columns dealing with Rochester's (NH)forthcoming poet laureate. They are called Poets who Matter, and No. 6 is Anonymous. (The others, for the record were Omar Khayyam, John Keats, John Clare, Robert Garioch and Walt Whitman.) The poetic/ballad snatches tie in with anecdotal material from Blackhill, Glasgow in 1973, if any of this makes sense.
Meanwhile, any deaf mutes, wife beaters, father & son combats, (not sohrab and rustum) etc? I have the five volumes of Child, but it's 2,500 tightly packed pages and thus the plea for pointers.