Well yesterday’s talk was – of not plagued by pesky technology, at least marred by it, but it can’t entirely replace the sense of surprise and wonder I that so many people. from so many different watersheds, attended because they wanted to learn about beavers, or had read Ben’s book and wanted to learn about me and Martinez.
Go figure.
I’ve read that in some way
There came Eight parts of Speech into the world
And that the Women
(Much good may it do them!)
Went off with seven of them between them.[1]
[1] Women’s Tongues, a traditional Welsh Penillion, author unknown, probably 17th century. Reprinted and translated in A Celtic Miscellany, (1971), Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson: Penguin Books, England.
