Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

[ann klefstad]

Heiko Recktenwald wrote:

>
> Its a great exemple how the sound of the village names can influence the
> feeling. Locmariaquer etc..
>

This is such a bizarre coincidence. I'm editing a book, a sort of memoir of an
oysterman, which cites several times a work called "The Oysters of
Locmariaquer". What's the chances of running across that name from 2 different
sources in the same week? Uncanny! Unheimlich! Woop!

> Is there some place in the US, which is called like Lands End (in
> Cornwall) or Finisterre ?

There are all kinds of great names in the US as elsewhere. Ball Club and Sleepy
Eye are fine little Minnesota burgs, par example. Fond du Lac, Lac qui Parle,
Embarrass, some of the keen French verbal debris left behind in these woods.
Place names , as a generator of , say, paintings . . . now there's an idea.

AK