[lit-ideas] The 6th (Is: Noel Coward)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:36:10 EST
"You must go to bed? It’s only 21:50 Buenos Aires time as I write this, and
20:53 when you posted your note. Do you go to bed so early? Maybe you
should
do some actual napping during your siesta time."
Did you know -- maybe yes, maybe no -- that 'siesta' is a Spanish corruption
for Latin for 'sixth', meaning the sixth hour. I think it's the Monks that
introduced the custom.
Geary should know more about that.
Sir Noel Coward pours scorn on the Argentines in "Mad dogs and Englishmen"
when he writes:
"Argentines (and Japanese, I think) sleep firmly from twelve to one, but
Englishman detest a siesta!"
--- But he was singing that in 1932, and in Japan!
Cheers,
JL
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