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Greetings. On 2013 Aug 29, at 16:52, John Cowan wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@s...>wrote: > > The word has too many meanings. There's a roughly continuous thread of >> attractive with/because of a dose of the repulsive, but it's hard to pin >> down. >> > > "There has never to my knowledge been any period of Gothic English > literature, but the list of Gothic revivalists stretches completely across > its entire history, from the _Beowulf_ poet to writers of our own day." > --Northrop Frye I initially misparsed Peter Hunsberger's remark about a renaissance Goth (whether or not in the same way as Peter, I don't know), and had visions of east-germanic exotics wandering around Florence, wondering aloud "ah, if we'd been here 1000 years ago there'd be some right good sacking here!" The timing looks _just_ about possible, but if so, the poor goths would be very far from home indeed. I vividly remember reading about gothic migrations in Decline and Fall when I was young, and being delightedly impressed by Gibbon's description of (in my memory) their multi-generational punk anabasis across Europe, finding the Black Sea, and oh, look! ... the sea, the sea! ... boats! ... sea-borne sacking! ... Anatolia! ... gold! But then I realised we were still talking about architecture and revivals. Hmm: what would goth markup look like, I wonder? <!ELEMENT gothicperson (tribe?, parentsname2, sackings*)> ? All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
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