Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ptsfa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!dual!ptsfa!mej From: mej@ptsfa.UUCP (Mary Johnson) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: What is origin of \"korl\"? Message-ID: <502@ptsfa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 19:03:14 EST Article-I.D.: ptsfa.502 Posted: Fri Mar 8 19:03:14 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 07:02:12 EST References: <998@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco Lines: 22 > If it's not findable in the OED, look in a library for a copy of _Life_In_the_ > Iron_Mills_, written by Rebecca Harding Davis in the middle of the last > century. Tillie Olsen rescued this piece its undeserved obscurity; it was > republished in the '70s with notes and a biography of Davis. In it is an > uneducated mill worker who sculpts emotive figures in korl, the only material > available to his mute needs for expression. There may be a further > description of the substance in Olsen's notes. The book, I fear, is out of > print (and I want a copy!). > The book seems to still be in print. A local bookstore told me that they did not have it in stock, but they would be happy to order a copy. They are: A Woman's Place 4015 Broadway Oakland, CA 94609 Mary Eileen Johnson {ihnp4,ucbvax,cbosgd,hplabs,decwrl,amd,sun,nsc}!dual!ptsfa!mej