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Posted on 05/05/2004 7:57:51 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
Home is behind, the world ahead, |
Oh, I gotta me one of them.
I think chives is more related to bulbs....onions and garlic...but I could be wrong.
It sounds like it was written in 19th-century English, too--that would be neat, I bet!
BTW while I was in college I had a nice opportunity to take a class on Arthurian literature under a Tolkien scholar who was in our English Department. We surveyed the major treatments of Arthur in literature and film--here is our syllabus:
Week 1: Introduction and Marie de France (Sir Lanval)
Week 2: Chretien de Troyes (Yvain)
Week 3: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Week 4: Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson (Gareth & Lynette
Week 5: Mark Twain (Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Week 6: T.H. White (The Sword in the Stone)
Week 7: Selections from Sword in the Stone and Camelot
Week 8: Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon
Week 9: Selections from Excalibur, etc.)
The "etc." in the last week turned out to be Monty Python :)
Sheesh! My Christmas cactus is blooming!
Heh...it's a little slow, isn't it?
Nah...it's putting on an extra show. It bloomed last December.
I'm no gardener, so I won't offer advice lest y'all come after me for indirectly killing off all of your plants!
Last Samurai was actually really good! Occasionally Cruise manages to overcome his deficiencies, like in Minority Report. This was one case. He actually didn't look as stupid as I expected in samurai armor.
Actually the movie was really, really good. If I hadn't been exercising I might have cried over the ending.
I'm no gardener, so I won't offer advice lest y'all come after me for indirectly killing off all of your plants!
Ah...a show off!
New books! Yay!
I hope there's a good used bookstore in Fort Collins.
Hmmm. . .well, maybe I'll give it a try. . .How was the swordfighting and battle stuff?
Hehehe....maybe it's because I actually gave it some fertilizer this spring.
Hey hey hey there evellybody!!! Anybody home?
[sip]
Any news?
Looks like you may be in luck :)
Evening Ruthy! - Evening Ramius!
Swordfighting... it was no Kenshin, though when the samurai charged the machine guns, it sent tingles up my spines. Battles were great. It was a Hollywood-movie, no question, but beautiful nonetheless.
We're having a gorgeous thunderstorm here. I expect we'll lose power at any moment, so don't expect to see me around tonight.
I found an anime convention in Denver, in early September. I'm going.
Yeah, we noticed there was a lot of that going on, especially on Rt. 28 going both ways. Fortunately, they weren't working on Sat. or Sun.!
Maybe we can do an Animoot during one of your school breaks, if your folks don't mind your coming here intstead of home. We'll figure out a time when we've gotten the house to the point where there's room for company!
I cannot WAIT for Wedding Moot!!
We're supposed to get thunder tonight and into the morning. And heavy rain. Hm...if we lose power at work, we can hang out and goof off.
Wait...we do that a lot during the summer anyway. Never mind! ;-)
Actually we'll be busy with computer labs and upgrades in a very short time. But this week should be nice and quiet.
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