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I want to live

July 15, 2014

Coincidences. Three instances of having heard the phrase I want to live with reference to movies within a week, spoken by women in each case. ( I say nothing about quite how coincidental this is but do feel moved to delineate further the pattern of coincidence.)

1. In Rocco And His Brothers — the final third of it watched last Tuesday morning, as the Prostitute is killed by the weak, brutal brother Simone, rather a long stabbing scene hard for me to watch, so that I actually had the movie on fast forward when I saw the translated dialogue flash up of the prostitute saying “I want to live” as she was stabbed.

2. That afternoon, or the afternoon after, a friend told me he had watched a good movie the past night — I Want to Live with Susan Hayward. Had I seen it?

(Some days later the same friend brought in two LPs of the soundtrack to I Want to Live –by Gerry Mulligan– with reference to the conversation we’d had about the movie) (*).

3.And just now, and what has caused me to remember these other recent instances of this phrase spoken by women in the movies, which would have otherwise been forgotten– at least I believe Susan Hayward does in fact actually say “I want to live” in “I Want to Live” though I haven’t seen it in a while– was Casanova’s Big Night, in which Bob Hope tells a love interest, a widowed vegetable seller played by Joan Fontaine, he “can’t think of anyone he’d rather have his throat cut with” than her (something like that) (he’s afraid of what might result from their immanent encounter with the Doge of Venice, played by Arnold Moss) and she tells him to try not to be his “normal idiotic itself — I want to live.” (The line, intended as lightly comedic, caused me to sit bolt upright.)

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The actresses were Annie Girardot, Susan Hayward, and Joan Fontaine. The different settings in which the phrase was spoken would be of interest to explore (well… the issue with coincidences is…. are they statistical, psychological or mystical). The movies were made in 1960, 1958, and 1954. I had thought to watch Casanova’s Big Night because in an interview with Woody Allen I came across, Allen, when asked what was a movie he liked that most people didn’t, (or something like that) answered “Casanova’s Big Night.”

July 5, 2014

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Lear’s Cornet/ Darnel

July 4, 2014

King Lear, [4.4.1-8]. Cord.

……….“Why, he was met even now
……….As mad as the vex’d sea, singing aloud,
……….Crown’d with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,
……….With hardocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flow’rs,
……….Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
……….In our sustaining corn. A century send forth!
……….Search every acre in the high-grown field,
……….And bring him to our eye.”

1) Furrow-weed and Hardock appear only in King Lear and only in this speech;

2) Mention of Darnel occurs only in 1 Henry 6 (a satirical remark by Pucelle) and in Henry 5 (the “un-pruned garden” speech of Burgundy);

3) Cuckoo flowers appear elsewhere only in the “spring song” of Love’s Labor’s Lost;

4) Nettle appears semi-frequently in Shakespeare and corn is among his most frequently named plants;

5) fumiter appears elsewhere only in the Burgundy speech of Henry 5;

6) hemlock appears only in the Burgundy speech, and as part of the witch’s potion in Macbeth.

7) if this dating is accurate a good 8 or nine years occurred between Shakespeare’s first mention of darnel and his second, and another seven or eight years between his second and his third.

8) the only point of similarity, in respect of plants, between Lear’s cornet and Ophelia’s garland is the nettle.(Ophelia’s garland–below– has fewer plants)

9) In the 1 Henry 6 mention of darnel, Pucelle enters Rouen disguised as a poor farmer trading corn and, after achieving her aims, scoffs that her corn was ‘full of darnel’. The man she makes this remark to is named Burgundy. Burgundy swears he’ll make her curse “the harvest of that corn.”

10) In King Lear there is also a character named Burgundy; he has come to England as a suitor to Cordelia but declines the match when she loses her dowry.

11) There is a character named Burgundy in only three plays: 1 Henry 6; Henry 5; and King Lear.

12) In each play with a character named Burgundy, there is also a mention of the plant darnel.

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Ophelia’s garland
(Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 7, 166-173)

There with fantastic garlands did she come
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men’s fingers call them:
There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds 170
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook.

June 20, 2014

‘It is more difficult not to complain of injustice when poor than not to behave with arrogance when rich.'” Confucius (The Analects/ Lao translation.)

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“The reward of the good man is to be allowed to worship in truth,” Kierkegaard (Purity of Heart/ Steere translation)

June 10, 2014

Mistle. Aigues-Mortes. Natron. Paphlagonia. Megafauna.Triptolemus:

When Triptolemus taught Lyncus, King of the Scythians, the arts of agriculture, Lyncus refused to teach it to his people and then tried to kill Triptolemus. Demeter turned him into a lynx. Triptolemus was equally associated with the bestowal of hope for the afterlife associated with the expansion of the Eleusinian Mysteries

diegesis, sortilege, tant pis, vatic, unonoctium, Mehitabel, concerto for piano and wind instruments, Romans 15, 1-3:

We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

feeder cattle; Glanum Dam; Dara Dam; snow course; sacroiliac;

Plants in the Song of Roland

May 5, 2014

A first pass at this (probably won’t be a second pass) compiled using the Dorothy Sayers translation, here, the Montcrief translation, here, this text of the Old French MS, this lexicographical resource.
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Ash (fraisnine): [56.717-724], [185.2532-2540]. Apple (pume): [29.383-388]; [185.2532-2540]. Bush, (boissun): [241.3352-3357]. Eglantine (eglenter): [8.114-118]. Fir: sapide (forest of fir) [78.990-993]. Flowers (flur): [8.114-118]; gold and painted flowers [98.1275-1281]; flowers and gold [106.1351-1356]; [137.1807-1811]; [140.1851-1857]; [146.1952-1957]; [162.2193-2199]; [178.2429-2431]; [179.2447-2457]; [205.2870-2873]; [207.2895-2905]; [228.3155-3163]; [229.3172-3175]; [242.3360-3364]; [253.3495-3503]; [255.3520-3522].Grass (l’erbe): [54.669-672]; herbus [80.117-119]; [104.1329-1334]; “green grass” [121.1605-1612]; [126.1661-1665]; [161.2169-2176]; [166.2235-2237]; [168.2259-2270]; [169.2271-2273]; [174.2355-2358]; [179.2447-2457]; [182.2488-2495]; [184.2519-2524]; [186.2563-2569]; [187.2570-2575]; [192.2651-2655]; [205.2870-2873]; [205.2874-2880]; [226.3096-3099]; [244.3386-3390]; [250.3451-3453]; [285.3915-3922]; [286.3924-3929]; [289.3969-3973]. Laurel, (Lorer): [192.2651-2655]. Myrrh (Mirre): [212.2955-2961]. Olive (olives): [5.70-73];[6.78-82]; [7.93-95]; [14.193-206]; une olive haute [28.366-369]; [187.2570-2575]; [195.2705-2708]. Orchard (verger): [2.10-14]; [8.103-109]; [11.157-160]; [38.501-504]; [38.509-511]. Pine (pin): [8.114-118]; [11.163-167]; [12.168-172]; [14.193-206]; [31.402-413]; [37.496-500]; [174.2355-2358]; [176.2375-2381]. [206.2881-2885]. Saffron (sasfree): [107.1367-1374]; [112.1449–1553]. [183.2502-2496]; [228.3140-3149]; [238.3305-3308]; [283.2496-2502]. Thorn, (espine): [255.3520-3522].Tree (l’arbe): [168.2259-2270]; [169.2271-2273]; [205.2874-2880]; tree of bad wood [288.3952-3955]. Wheat (ble): [78.975-983]. Woods (bruill): [55.713-716]. Yew (if): [31.402-413].

April 21, 2014

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SONNET 73

April 19, 2014

That time of year thou may’st in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou see’st the twilight of such day,
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by-and-by black night doth take away,
Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire
Consum’d with that which it was nourish’d by.
Cons This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
Cons To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
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April 17, 2014

katabatic, corm, coehorn, redan; squadoosh; cible (fr.); dérapage; données. Romans 14. Mt. Ithome, “Kore,” Asine, cyclopean

……………………“Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows
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……………………Regrets, vexations, lassitudes interfused
……………………Within my mind, should e’er have borne a part,
……………………And that a needful part, in making up
……………………The calm existence that is mine when I
……………………Am worthy of myself!”

……………………~The Prelude, I. 40-50.

April 15, 2014

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April 11, 2014

lanugo ; nacelle *; herem; Chalybes

April 11, 2014

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iliad 16 502-505

ὀφθαλμοὺς θ᾽:ὣς ἄρα μιν εἰπόντα τέλος θανάτοιο κάλυψεν
ὀφθαλμοὺς θ᾽:ὀφθαλμοὺς ῥῖνάς θ᾽: ὃ δὲ λὰξ ἐν στήθεσι βαίνων
ὀφθαλμοὺς θ᾽:ἐκ χροὸς ἕλκε δόρυ, προτὶ δὲ φρένες αὐτῷ ἕποντο:
ὀφθαλμοὺς θ᾽:τοῖο δ᾽ ἅμα ψυχήν τε καὶ ἔγχεος ἐξέρυσ᾽ αἰχμήν.

[Butler]. 503: λὰξ. 504: χροός; προτί; φρένες; ἕποντο. 505: τοῖο, ἐξέρυσ’, αἰχμή

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iliad 16. 466-469

April 11, 2014

Σαρπηδὼν δ᾽ αὐτοῦ μὲν ἀπήμβροτε δουρὶ φαεινῷ
δεύτερον ὁρμηθείς, ὃ δὲ Πήδασον οὔτασεν ἵππον
ἔγχεϊ δεξιὸν ὦμον: ὃ δ᾽ ἔβραχε θυμὸν ἀΐσθων,
κὰδ δ᾽ ἔπεσ᾽ ἐν κονίῃσι μακών, ἀπὸ δ᾽ ἔπτατο θυμός.

iliad 16. 466-469

Butler:

Sarpedon then aimed a spear at Patroklos and missed him, but he struck the horse Pedasos in the right shoulder, and it screamed aloud as it lay, groaning in the dust until the life went out of it.

Iliad 6.43-44

April 7, 2014

………………………………………. εγχος. παρ δε οι εστη
Ατρειδης Μενελαος εχων δολιχοσκιον εγχος.

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And next to him was Menelaos, Atreuses son, holding his [cruel] spear.

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δολιχοσκιον: having a long shadow.

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Lattimore: and the son of Atreus, Menelaos, with the far shadowed spear in his hand, stood over him.

Eccl 12:1

April 2, 2014

Ecclesiastes 12.1:

Και μνησθητι του κτισαντος σε εν ημεραις νεοτητος σου· εως οτου μη ελθωσιν αι ημεραι της κακιας, και φθασουσιν ετη εν οις ερεις, ουκ εστι μοι εν αυτοις θελημα.

του κτισαντος: < κτιζω, to make, build, found, create. φθασουσιν: <φθανω, to come or do first before others, to outstrip, to overtake . θελημα: will (“pleasure”).

Remember your creator in the days of your youth; when the days of evil have not come, nor the years overtaken you on which you will say, there is no pleasure for me in them.

[KJV]

7 Iliad 36

March 30, 2014

αλλ’ αγε, πως μεμονας πολεμον καταπαυσεμεν ανδρων;

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μεμονας: perfect μαω, in general to be eager, anxious ready.. this line sighted under [6], “to be minded or inclined, to purpose, design”. καταπαυσεμεν is future infinitive.

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But come, how have you purposed to put an end to this war between men?

March 29, 2014

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March 28, 2014

Ten times the size of Niagara, Dry Falls is thought to be the greatest known waterfall that ever existedDry Falls, Missoula Floods

On 1 May 1707, under the Act of Union, two of her realms, the kingdoms of England and Scotland, were united as a single sovereign state, the Kingdom of Great Britain…. Queen Anne

Apart from the Spanish territories of Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla on the coast of Morocco, and Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, it is the only country in Africa whose de jure official language is SpanishEquatorial Guinea

Exodus I, 8-9

March 26, 2014

Ανεστη δε βασιλευς ετερος επ’ Αιγυπτον, ος ουκ ηδει τον Ιωσηφ. ειπεν δε τω εθνει αυτου “Ιδου το γενος των υιων Ισραηλ μεγα πληθος και ισχυει υπερ ημας.”

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υπερ ημας: “A frequent use of υπερ in the LXX to express comparison is due to the fact that the Hebrew language has no special form for the comparitive degree” (Conybeare/Stock, sect. 94). ισχυει < ισχυω: to be strong, mighty, powerful, prevail.

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And another king rose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, Behold, the generation of the sons of Israel (has become) a great crowd and is stronger than us.

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King James: Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

March 24, 2014

Northern California…. Northern California is not a formal geographic designation. California’s north-south midway division is around 37° latitude, near the level of San Francisco. Popularly, though, “Northern California” usually refers to the state’s northernmost 48 counties. The term is also applied to the area north of the Tehachapi Mountains.
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