> jon - i'll bow to your superior knowledge of american history and the > sequence of it. i mentioned convicts because i seem to remember that > georgia was populated by convicts at one time (don't know why but > ogilvey comes to mind). Not only Georgia. At least 2 Defoe novels deal extensively with "transportation". How else could we explain that the greatest country on Earth is the only one to have believers in UFOs, flat earth, crystal power etc.
> > i do know that the word renegade come from indentured servants that > bolted and "ran a gate" Seriously? > and that an often used expletive comes from the > importation of manure into the new world with a proviso to "Ship High > In Transit" to avoid a build up of explosive methane in the nether > regions of the ship's holds. These explications remind me of the etymology of "orgy" as described in Twain's "Huck. Finn"........................ > i don't think my baroque brothers are much taken with the idea of > country music. i suspect that their foppish fore bearers felt > precisely the same. Some "country" musics can be a good deal more highbrow than "city" music, and that what I am mining lutenistically, in the Torban pages. RT ______________ Roman M. Turovsky http://turovsky.org http://polyhymnion.org
