[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Wotsit
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 13:35:39 -0500
Ok -- now I've got to know the name of "that song from Lolanthe" so I can
find all the lyrics... I have Mandy Patinkin singing it on CD but I can
never remember all the words.
Julie Krueger
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 12:37 PM, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> One way of representing thoughts had while painting our house: I have a
> daughter who remembers. To get to my lofty current status in life, I had to
> remember from the moment when I left all my condensing of notes until the
> moment when the examiner said, "Pick up your pens." Before looking at the
> questions, I scribbled as quickly as possible as many of the makings and
> breakings of the French Revolution as I could conjure. What remains of this
> in my brain is the rough equivalent of a beach following a storm. Bits and
> pieces of other stuff have also stuck--this, from Shakespeare, that from
> Harry Lauder-- but when we play a Gilbert and Sullivan disc I sing, "Go ye
> heroes go to glory, go to...something, something tea." My daughter, by
> contrast, remembers all the words. You know that nightmare song from
> Iolanthe?
>
> For your brain is on fire, the bed-clothes conspire
> Of usual slumber to plunder you:
> First your counter-pane goes, and uncovers your toes,
> And your sheet slips demurely from under you...
>
> She can recite the whole thing without breaking a sweat. I do admire what
> I don't gots.
>
> Another way of representing thought had while painting our house: what a
> wonderful shade of orange is the loose dead branch that's caught high in
> that fir i hope it falls soon imagine if that thing were to catch fire is
> painting about protection or looks if a job's worth doing it's worth doing
> well that's dad's view why am i rushing where's the fire if it's about looks
> whose opinion is it that matters neighbors family friends passing house
> critics i can't be bothered to do more sanding and scraping enough is enough
> cover it with a couple of coats and call it good or as bev says put a fork
> in it and call it good i wonder if i've ever sent her a photo of the massive
> fork sculpture in vevay i don't know if there's a french equivalent to put a
> fork in it and call it good this color's not going to match so i think i'll
> make the patches look like water tumbling down a slope and over here we'll
> try some happy happy trees god my back hurts
>
> And here's the highly-condensed version:
>
> pre-owned cars
> pre-owned books
> the book of uncommon prayer
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland, Oregon
>
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