Re: "I am the spark"

>> [ Followups to rec.music.folk - nothing Celtic
>>   or Canadian about it as far as I know].
> Huh?  Ron Hynes and Dave Panting and Noel Dinn and Pamela Morgan
> and Graham Wells and some others I mentioned are/were certainly Canadian
> and celtic and Sarah McLachlan who I quoted is Canadian and
> adoptively has Irish roots and sang with The Chieftains live and 
> with Seamus Egan on The Brothers McMullen soundtrack (nice thumb ring).

I was talking about that spark-related lullaby/folk-custom, which is
documented from lowland Scotland and has nothing specifically Celtic
about it.  Of the people you list, the only one I've heard is the
Chieftains and I wasn't talking about any of them, still less accusing
them of constructing themselves a racist "celtic" cultural identity.

I have set followups again; I am NOT going to continue a discussion
crossposted to a newsgroup devoted to a singer I know nothing about
beyond the fact that she's female and Canadian.


David Rintoul wrote:
: "A psychosis, in contrast to the other classes of disorders, involves a
: relatively high degree of psychological disorganization...This person
: may experience delusions and hallucinations and may be viewed by himself
: or by others as so incapacitated as to require hospitalization or the
: administration of powerful drugs to stabilize his more extreme behaviors."

It is fairly obvious that David Dalton is not always totally hinged, but
he's never less than interesting, and participates in newsgroups in a
perfectly considerate and responsible way.  I don't have a problem with
his postings.  To accuse him of "psychological disorganization" is to
make an inappropriate value judgment on a way of being that isn't one I'd
want for myself but but which enlarges the scope of human possibility.
Would you have wanted to diagnose William Blake's visions away too?  Or
dismiss the tunes on my website composed by the fairies of Shetland as
pure pathology?

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