Things seem to have been very quiet here lately, so I thought I would pass this on: Subject: I am the very model of a modern Numenorean - revised From: "Andrew...
Steve Hayes
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Oct 2, 2003 7:49 am
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The last six lines are a discarded fragment of the original. Ignore them! Richard Sturch....
Richard Sturch
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Oct 2, 2003 5:24 pm
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Not in what I received ! It's probably worth mentioning for non-G&S addicts that the original is in Act I of "The Pirates of Penzance". Suzanne ... ...
suzanne bray
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Oct 4, 2003 4:29 pm
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... And another amusing parody on it is Tom Lehrers "names of the chemical elements, set to a possibly recognisable tune" There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum,...
Steve Hayes
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Oct 6, 2003 4:54 am
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... I like many of Lehrer's songs, and this is one of his better ones - but isn't it a shame that he could only make it scan by missing out the second "i" in...
And don't forget "The Periodic Table of Elvish Names," a collection of Tolkien's finest jawcrackers, put together by Elvish linguists Carl Hostetter and Pat...
In the case of sulf(ph)er - a stinking shame. Pax, Mark ... From: John Gibson [mailto:john.p.gibson@...] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 5:02 AM To:...
Message text written by INTERNET:coinherence-l@yahoogroups.com ... That's the trouble with being American; they can't spell "aluminium". Incidentally, the...
Richard Sturch
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Oct 7, 2003 9:08 pm
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The Figure of Beatrice pp 100-1 Chapter VII THE MAKING OF THE COMMEDIA Some, so defeated, have abandoned the Way of Affirmation. Their defeat has been the...
... Well, that's his dialect! -- Steve Hayes E-mail: shayes@... Literary pages: http://www.geocities.com/hayesstw/litmain.htm Book discussions:...
Steve Hayes
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Oct 8, 2003 5:21 pm
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The Making of the Commedia Dante had long since conceived the kind of poem the Commedia was to be; he had said so in the Vita. It was to say about a woman...
The Figure of Beatrice pp102-3 The Making of the Commedia Dante had long since conceived the kind of poem the Commedia was to be; he had said so in the Vita....
Today I discovered a interesting quote which might be the key to many problems inside and outside of the church: "Her [the church's] victories, among other...
I just finished AM's _The Secret Glory_. I was going along fine, more than fine. His descriptions of the indescribable- material and spiritual- are...
AJA
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Oct 12, 2003 8:19 pm
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... It seems a reasonable criticism. Machen had some marvellous ideas, but he was not always able to see them through properly to completion. Or to ...
Thank you so much, John for doing all of that! I will definitely keep at it. I think that I'll look into _Hill of Dreams_ next. Interesting about the horror...
AJA
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Oct 12, 2003 10:46 pm
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The Hill of Dreams can also be found online: http://www.litrix.com/hdreams/hdrea001.htm I just found that when doing a search for info on Arthur Machen. Pax, ...
Here's the Project Gutenberg site for him: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?amode=start&author=M achen%2c%20Arthur Pax, Mark ... From:...
Yes- there is published correspondence between Waite & Machen on the topic of one of CW's novels, Shadows of Ecstasy, I believe. DDD ... same time ... didn't ...
... There is a letter to Waite (Dilectissime Frater, Most Beloved Brother, as Machen calls him) dated April 28th 1930, in which Machen writes the following: ...
Was Machen's objection to CW truly literary or was it religious? Did he view CW as having no value (like Chesterton) because (like Chesterton) CW was a...
... That would seem unlikely. Machen himself was an Anglican with High Church inclinations, and no objection (if I remember correctly) to hearing Mass in RC...
That's interesting because the online descriptions that I read of Machen's work made it seem pagan in a way that CW's was not. Did his religion inform his work...
I also seem to recall Machen having written something to the effect that, "All literature is an elaboration of the dogma of the Catholic Church" Scott....
... Some, yes, but generally not the earlier horrific works - or at least, not noticeably. In the short story of "The Happy Children", for example, the...
