Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 20:27:50 -0800
From: Metin Aktay <maktay-AT-superonline.com>
Subject: Re: PLC: MotduJour:"gull"


Patsloane-AT-aol.com wrote:
> 
> > The OED will satisfy you, showing gullible, & gullet deriving from the word
> >  for the bird from Welsh Through Cornish to Breton to Celtic. Prithee,
> >  Sirah, _always_ check the OED.
> >
> >  lexigographically,
> >  g
> >
> T. S. Eliot plays with this word in The Waste Land.  His note says the
> one-eyed merchant and the phoenician sailor melt into one another, are not
> wholely distinct from one another, or whatever.  I took it to mean they might
> actually be the same person in some sense or the other.
> 
> In any case, Phlebas the Phoenician sailor drowns, and forgets the cries of
> the gulls--those whom he might have "gulled" in his former life as a
> merchant.
> 
> pat sloane
> 
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Would anyone have anything to add re Swift's Gulliver's Travels?
Now that I have read your input re gull and gullibility and stuff,
I am developing a sneaking suspicion that his choice of the name
Gulliver is deliberate.

Thankingly,

Metin Aktay


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