Second part of a retelling of the story of St Uncumber, protector of women in bad marriages [...]
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Part one of a retelling of the story of St Uncumber, protector of women in bad marriages [...] Continue reading St Uncumber, Princess of Salade The story of Perdix & Daedalos (from Ovid’s Metamorphoses among other places). On the first day of Christmas: a Partridge in a Pear Tree! [...] Continue reading What the Partridge Dreams The second DVD out of the box as I work through my birthday present to myself, is JJ Abram’s Star Trek from last year (2009). Taking this film as my subject here also gives me an opportunity to brush off and republish my original review. (‘Review’ doesn’t seem quite the right word, but judge [...] Continue reading Live, floss and prosper As my own birthday present to myself, I bought a box of DVDs (mostly Science-Fiction related). I anticipate working my way through them bit by succulent bit (inclding, of course, all the Extra Material) and boning out some favourite quotes. Which I plan to share here in postcard form. As chance would have it, [...] Continue reading Human teenagers On 16th January 2010, the Artwiculate Word of the Day was Moiety. If a society is divided into exactly two descent groups, each is called a moiety, after the French word for half. If the two halves are each obliged to marry out, and into the other, these are called matrimonial moieties. How would [...] Continue reading The Matrimonial Moiety of Juliet Capulet Edit and compression to Twitter length of (anonymous) lyrics of “Lilly the Pink” [...] Continue reading Lilly the Pink |
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