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To: David Lawrence who wrote (1242)	7/6/1998 11:11:00 PM
From: Josef Svejk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4023

Xenophobes.

To: David Lawrence who wrote (1242)	7/7/1998 5:38:00 AM
From: Wigglesworth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4023

<< The French, the French, They're a funny race. They fight with their feet, and f_ _ _ with their face. >> I always had problem with poetry in college. Given a poem like this to analyze, my college paper would read: They fight with their feet, and _art with their face? If this is true, then the problem might not be with the French. Instead it might very well be with the viewer who is upside down and confuses hands with feet, arse with face. Correct haiku, then becomes: They fight with their hands, and f_ _ _ with their arse. If original interpretation ain't correct, then stanza goes: They fight with their hands, and _ u c k with their arse. Now the poet is faced with a terrible choice: if he maintains that the French f with face, then he must mean the English f with arse or vice versa. And if a nation happens to f with both face and arse then this nation is neither English nor French unless it is both French and English. So does the poet indirectly condemn the multifaceted sexual mores of the Americans and/or the Canadians, or what?