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Thanks.
did my 20 minutes on the exer bike.
Florida is built out of sand and chainlink fences.
Try barbed wire. Dug a lot of post holes, stretched a lot iof wire, hammered a lot of staples. Farm life was fun growing up.
Define fun.
Dana
Fun is remembering the difficult things you accomplished in your youth and realizing you no longer have to work that hard again.
At least for this old frat. (sic)
I don't know...I'm not in my youth, but I still seem to be facing difficult things all the time.
You're not over the hill until you're buried in it.
Dana
But like on a rollercoaster, once you're over the hill you should be screaming on the way down.
"The Completely Cathartic", complaint thread.
The screaming on the way down Complaint thread
william blake was some sort of poet?
anything in particular about his works to appreciate?
Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
He's actually one of the more interesting English poets of the time, he was also quite a talented artist.
Loadsa quotes:
And did those feet in ancient time,
Walk upon Englands[b] mountains green:
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On Englands pleasant pastures seen!
And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Bring me my Bow of burning gold:
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold:
Bring me my Chariot of fire!
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land.
And on the art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake's_Illustrations_of_the_Book_of_Job , which also inspired music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job:_A_Masque_for_Dancing
One of my favorites
London
I wander thro' each charter'd street,
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow.
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear
How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackning Church appalls,
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls
But most thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse
He was very deep. Take the one I started. A lot of people know the first part but not how it develops.
The Tyger
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare sieze the fire?
And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
It was a British poet who also came up with this masterpiece that begins.
"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves,
did gyre and gymbol in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogroves,
and the mome raths outgrabe.
It's the only English poem I know by heart all the way through. I keep waiting for a chance to frighten some little kid with it.
I get very animated when I recite it. Biting jaws, catching claws, a "vorpal blade", exaggerated "snicker-snacks", wild "galumphing", "whiffling" Jaberwocks with "eyes of flame", and in the end, a severed head. Great adventure story when told the right way.
I always used to wonder what a vorpal sword was the one that goes snicker-snack
BTW which way will you read it
,sevot yhtils eht dna ,gillirb sawT.
.ebaw eht ni lobmyg dna eryg did
,sevorgorob eht erew ysmim llA
.ebargtuo shtar emom eht dna
thanks. none of it sounds familiar, sadly
It’s more than a little silly to wonder what any one thing in the Jabberwocky is
So did Lewis Carroll. Unlike many of his made-up words, which were combinations of two words, he couldn't figure out where he got "vorpal blade" or "tulgey wood".
Did somebody say "mattress" to Mr. Lambert? Now I've got to get into the fish tank and sing.
Oh, that's easy, I'll just read it the forwards way, but turn my back to the audience.
"Jabberwocky" is the only English poem I know all the way through, but I also know a Russian poem("Molitva" by Lermontov) all the way through which I also recite with great aplomb. Deep growls, serious "pl"s, "glov"s, and "slov"s. Plenty of "nya"s and long rolling "RRRRR"s. It's actually a self-consoling prayer, which is beautifully fluid when recited properly. But with the right emphasis I can make it sound like a crudely swearing violent declaration of war as long as you don't understand Russian.
Everybody should know at least one poem. Even if it's a limerick.
Wikipedia: Mikhail Lermontov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lermontov
John Cleese reciting parts of "Molitva". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl8weOSIAUI
And here I was worried that I might have misspelled "mille".
So it's "milestones" and not "kilostones", huh? Interesting that word "mile".
Had fun playing that game.
Didn't learn to play Backgammon, Uno, and Eucre until college. So now one might be able to guess what general part of the US I went to college in. Well, for my BS degree. That's Bachelor of Science, not the other "BS". I knew what you were thinking!
The MS (Master of Science) is a whole 'nother guess; whole 'nother part of the country.
You know better! We also have lightning from Zeus, giant airborne swirlies to which we give colloquial names like Andrew, Doris, Charley, Frances, Jeanne, and Irma, deer the size of dogs, gators that eat dogs, mosquitos the size of deer, bears that will sit in the tree in your front yard and wait for you to come out to play, and muck fires that are wet but also on fire at the same time!
But it's not all bad. On the good side, we have air conditioning and Key Lime Pie. And way cool birds like pelicans, egrets, cormorants, eagles, ospreys, and flamingoes! Oh, and no sleet, snow, or ice to make you fall down and break an arm or hip.
Edit: And I almost forgot about the Peacocks! They're gorgeous birds for sure, but just as ornery as ostridges. If you get on their bad side, they won't hesitate to chase your butt all the way to Georgia and back!
Edit 2: Oh, and fire ants. The swelling has finally stopped and I should have only another week or so of incredible itching! And that little run-in was last Wednesday!
In the Spring, Summer, and part of Autumn, in Massachusetts, we have Egrets and Great Blue Herons. I'm not sure of the seasonality of these others, but we do have Cormorants, Ospreys, and even some Bald Eagles. No Pelicans or Flamingos, though.
Dana
Nice! Twice I saw an osprey carrying a fish out of one of our ponds. Imagine the bad day those trouts were having!
It's interesting to watch a heron fish. They walk on their long thin legs in the shallows, and when they see a fish, they spear it with their long, pointy beak. Then they flip it up in the air and swallow it head first!
Glad I'm not a fish!
Up here in extreme western NY State we still have deer the size of deer, black bear, pheasant, fox, rabbits, groundhogs(woodchucks), beaver, wild turkey, squirrels, and chipmunks. And those are only the critters I've actually seen in the wild, in the last decade, alive, and without getting more that 20 feet from a paved surface.
But don't forget that Florida also has wild hogs!
the oppressive humidity broke, can breathe easier relief
waiting for the doctors to call me back, waiting since yesterday. surgery is monday i dunno what time to be there.
I haven't seen them fish. There's a pond across the street from our house, but the trees and shrubs block the view mostly. Once, I did see a Belted Kingfisher. He was up on the wire, waiting. Then, suddenly he took off right for the pond...fast. That was the only time I saw one of those, but since I saw one, I'm sure there are others here. And Perigrin Falcons. And Red-Tailed Hawks. Coopers Hawks. And once I saw a rare one, rare in our area, anyway...a Merlin.
Dana
In my area we have deer, fox, rabbits, groundhogs, wild turkeys, squirrels and chipmunks (I think those two are pretty much everywhere in New England). In fact, my sister is visiting and she told me last night that a deer ran right by her, within reach, as she was standing outside her car. I've seen fox on my street, as has my wife, and on three occasions I've seen coyotes. Once during the daytime, in the winter. I was shoveling snow in my driveway, got in the car to warm up for a minute, looked to my left and there he was, casually prancing across the street into my neighbor's yard. I was glad I was inside the car. No black bear, though. But they are around in the greater Boston area and metro west area.
And palmetto bugs!
Dana