Sog City and "Loch Lomond"
To think the right way about Sog City, imagine it as a combination of
Constantinople (the fish smell, the Blues and Greens, and turn the map
on its side!); Jerusalem (the location of the martyrdom and the pilgrimages)
and Dis (the burning brass wall behind which live immortal evil beings).
Re Loch Lomond: Mike Cule is right: I remember John Dickson Carr in one
of his rollicking mystery novels of the 30's complaining about that
decade's version of Rob Roy, which has the hero and his friends, disguised
as farmers, singing "Loch Lomond" as they pass British soldiers, and saying
"they'll never suspect us now." Carr complains that this is like a British
spy singing "God Save the King" as he walsk down the Unter Den Linden.
In fact, of course, "God Save the King" was written at the same time and
Became the British national anthem in the '45. Jim Chapin
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