To: Graystone who wrote (261 ) 11/30/2002 2:37:53 AM From: marcos Read Replies (2) | Respond to Na und?! ... ja, butt zey mussen be nekkid -g- .. this thing we have about worrying so much about the degree to which we concern ourselves with our identity, it's time to get over that, and recognise that that simply is our identity - the degree to which we feel we need an identity, and don't feel a tangible one to hand, yet keep going on about it anyway, for that is what we do ... best perspective i know on this, is from a tropical village where there are no identity-worriers around, you can soon see what the lack of this pursuit does to the people, they will go about making their babies and going fishing and picking their mangos and roasting their pigs and sending the youngest of José Enrique down to the depósito for more beer and just generally having a fine old chatty time without once ever ever questioning the quality of their canadiensidad .... <-- and there is the strange thing about that, because they have a word for it, while we do not, we must make do with stringing two others together, 'canadian', and 'identity', an awkward construction plainly - four syllables, glottal stop, four syllables - eeeuuw, where they have ready to hand a neat prepared five-syllable term that rolls off the tongue like peas off a plate at a picnic, and ends in a mildly sinful teutonic dth sound, which is really stepping out in those parts, lends it a definition you just won't get out of Mel Hurtig in a million years .... this we must do paisanos, each at some point, go elsewhere and look back, as did before us our great confectionery hero - 'Timothy Horton's dead - no, no no no, he's outside, looking in' ... it is the hole that makes the doughnut, and we must never forget it
