Origin of the Morris
Molly Dancing
Recently, somewhere in the darkest bowels of the Library of Congress (henceforth to be referred to as Not-the-National-Library, or N the NL), a hitherto unknown cache of Cecil "Don't Call me See-sil" Sharp papers turned up.Included are His handscribbled notes from 26 Dec. 1899, on the back of a sheet of paper
(on the front: "List of things to do, 1910:
- 1. bash Mary Neal;
- 2. found EFDS;
- 3. more starch in shirts").
Among the notes, it says,
"Kimber says he travelled to Argentina as a young man. There he saw the tango and bossa nova, which he secretly noted down and smuggled back to H. Quarry, he says. But I feel that the sight of heavily mustachioed quarry men embracing and twirling on village High Street is not acceptable to our Way of Life. NB: invent some competing form of dance this PM. Come up with a stupid name. Teach it to university students who lack any gainful occupations. Remind the laundress: more starch!"
These papers shed new light on the relationship between Latin Ballroom and Ancient Rituals. No doubt any reps of the N the NL will confirm this astonishing find, which is just about as authentic as could be wished.
--Posted to the Morris Dancing Discussion List by Steve Corrsin
Of course, there are ... or perhaps you'd prefer to submit one of your own.
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