Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-miles!chabot From: chabot@miles.DEC (L. S. Chabot) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: What is origin of \"korl\"? Message-ID: <997@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 09:56:42 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.997 Posted: Thu Mar 7 09:56:42 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 11:28:22 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 13 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!). L S Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA USFail: DEC, LMO4/H4, 150 Locke Drive, Marlborough, MA 01752