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From: chabot@miles.DEC (L. S. Chabot)
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Subject: Re: What is origin of \"korl\"?
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 09:56:43 EST
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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
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