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| Sep-22-11 | | mworld: Speaking of great stuff, I just decided to open the distillers edition of cragganmore more I found.. It's purfect. Why would I tell you? Well I thought you might appreciate the pairing of it with a stargate Atlantis disc I am putting in the player...I really am behind. Cheers |
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Sep-22-11
 | | OhioChessFan: <'there were never any good old days'.> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRJe... |
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Sep-22-11
| | OhioChessFan: <I have some Rooks. And no wish to live in one.> If the tower is everywhere and the knight of deliverance no proof against its magic, what else? |
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Sep-23-11
| | OhioChessFan: <Quote of the Day: I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings. --- Steinitz> |
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Sep-23-11
 | | Domdaniel: < which is the dullest of all openings>
To be fair to old Stoney, it *was* often dull in the 19th century ... before Nimzowitsch, Alekhine and Botvinnik got their hands on it and sharpened it up. |
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| Sep-23-11 | | WBP: <Dom> It was Tony Tanner that wrote the piece on Pynchon regarding Feiffer/mass. And you're quite right: whether or not Pynchon attended mass is really immaterial when regarding his fiction. (Tanner points out that Pynchon came from an ancient New-England/Protestant family on his father's side, and was most likely Catholic on his mother's--of course you know this already.) And btw, David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen both apparently attended Protestant churches; Wallace into his adult years--don't know about JF. Yeah, I detect a very different scene here on CG, after coming back from one of my habitual long periods of time away. Things seem gloomy, vitriolic in some places, and seemingly suffused with a kind of 'ubi sant?' atmosphere in others. Of course I'm assuming I'm wrong on all of this. And for what it's worth, the dominating zeitgeist (at any given moment) of CG has gone through many periods of change and evolution during the time I've been here, and before that as well (I've gone back to older threads and posts), with figures appearing suddenly to brilliantly disrupt everything, and then just as quickly disappearing back into the virtual ether. Things do seem to come together when there's a major tournament or match going on; perhaps Spain will prove such... And good luck on the Pynchon wiki...(loved the line about the mathmatician! Would have lol-ied, but I know you detest that term!) |
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Sep-23-11
| | Domdaniel: <WBP> - <of course you know this already> I probably knew it once, Bill, but I've forgotten. I don't *want* to know the biographical material excavated by phanatiques. Just the texts. Impossible to avoid completely, of course, especially as I came within a couple of hours of being born on TP's 21st birthday. Yeah, the scene here has changed, but Frogspawn soldiers on. Arab Spring, British Summer, American Fall, Nuclear Winter ... you're always welcome to drop by. |
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Sep-23-11
 | | Annie K.: Shouldn't that be speeled 'Nukluer'? ;)
And "mutters", heh. Neat bilingual pun. :)
Speakina Fonda, I was pretty surprised to realize just now that he was 68 at the time 'Nobody' was filmed. I wouldn't have guessed him to be over 60... and looking hotter than he did in his youth. :D |
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Sep-24-11
| | Domdaniel: Nukluer, heh. Didn't think of that, somehow. Now Nuklu is bound to desert me in my week of need. Or my weak-of-kneed. I vaguely recall that 'Mutter' was a triple pun, but I've forgotten why. Some Mutters do 'ave 'em, I s'pose. |
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Sep-24-11
| | Annie K.: Better desert than dessert! :s
Triple, or more, but still bilingual... :) |
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Sep-24-11
| | Domdaniel: Funny feeling, following wiki links and finding myself. Or, at least, something I wrote. I remain Pychonianly invisible. http://www.gottfriedhelnwein.ie/new... Thanks, Gottfried. |
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Sep-24-11
| | Annie K.: I remember you mentioned that interview. Nice to see the actual article. :) I still think you are a little too preoccupied with fame, aka "stardom", aka celebrity... particularly for a Pynchon aficionado, as *he* certainly knows better himself. ;p |
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Sep-24-11
| | Domdaniel: Perhaps. It takes effort to avoid it, at times. But I loathe celebrity and fear fame. I just like being a small cult. |
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Sep-24-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> Here's a crossword clue that you can object to on linguistic grounds: Angel fish swallowing ruler, 100 cm (8)
OK? 100 cm is one metre, or 1m, or IM. The 'ruler', as the clue is English, is Elizabeth R, or ER. The fish is a CHUB. So if CHUB swallows ER, we have CHERUB, and add IM for CHERUBIM, allegedly meaning 'angel'. ("chess title" would avoid the metric stuff, but compilers don't seem to know about IM and GM). 'cept it doesn't, does it? It's the plural of [k'rub] or somefink like that. And those winged toddlers in paintings are *putti*. I'd like to tear their wings off, like putti in my hands... oops. |
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Sep-24-11
| | Domdaniel: Went hunting for quagga in the great quagmire. No luck. Will try the great pismire tommorow. It's in the People's Republic of Formica. |
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Sep-24-11
| | Annie K.: <I just like being a small cult.> Heh! :)
OK, sweet... and maybe I'm just being grumpy because I seem to be coming down with a minor cold. We've had about half an hour's worth of rain here yesterday, which means it's now WINTER! ;p Anyhoo, mental functions may resume sometime later this week. :s |
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| Sep-25-11 | | dakgootje: <'cept it doesn't, does it? It's the plural of [k'rub] or somefink like that. And those winged toddlers in paintings are *putti*> They are indeed - however in the question it is not defined that the solution should be a fairly nude toddler. There are those orders of angels, which generally do have things like cherubim. I thought generally our idea of angel and archangel would be fairly low; with cherubim medium and seraphim quite high. Presumably you can figure their awesomeness by the amount of wings they have, as cherub's are supposed to have 4 [and I think 4 faces], while seraphim have 6 wings. Thought there was some high-up angel as well with a thousand eyes or something. So angel should not be thought of as 'winged human being looking like Brad Pitt' but more 'something with wings you see when you smoke an illegal substance'. Although it has been some time that I've read about angelogy - so I might be wrong about some details ;) I like the word seraph though. |
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Sep-25-11
| | Annie K.: Just taking a break at work here - given that my interest in the bible is as an anthropological/historical record, I've always paid the most attention to the parts depicting human lifestyles and interactions in it, and paid next to no attention to the mythological parts - so I really can't recall off the top of my head what the various sorts of angels are called in the original Hebrew. I could look it up when I get home, if someone gives me book, chapter, and verse. ;) Meanwhile, about the word seraph/seraf - the funny thing is that other meanings of the word are 'resin', 'burned', or 'a burned substance' - so somebody may indeed have been smoking something... :p |
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Sep-25-11
| | Domdaniel: <dak> I like old Metatron - both the cockney version played by Alan Rickman in Dogma and the info-tech version that Sol Yurick wrote about. Cherubim - apart from the ancient Hebrew angles [sic] - seem to be loosely connected to Assyrian godlings who guarded doors - I've seen some originals in a Berlin museum. Part-King, part-Lion, part-Bird, part something else. Hebrew texts suggest that Enoch (who was 'with the Lord' and 'died not') became Metatron and other prophets became Seraphim and Cherubim. When I was a philosophy student, the department head was an angelologist (and a future RC Bishop). At the time, I thought this was an (amusing) affront to human intelligence. Now I just find it amusing. I remember one case where a student's essay on epistemology was rejected - knowing the boss's leanings, he remembered to deal with both human and divine knowledge. But he forgot angelic knowledge. Musta been around then I tried to patent the <Angelchip>. If they're very small and very intelligent, we just need a way to line them up, like galley slaves ... |
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| Sep-25-11 | | dakgootje: <so I really can't recall off the top of my head what the various sorts of angels are called in the original Hebrew.> I'm not even sure they are in the Bible. First encountered the angel-order on good new wiki. I kept reading because I was amazed anyone took it serious. If anywhere, I would expect it in Revelations; but perhaps it's just some old side-text. I agree normally the mythological part is less interesting - only to look at comparisons with contemporary religions. <about the word seraph/seraf - the funny thing is that other meanings of the word are 'resin', 'burned', or 'a burned substance'> Dear me, that sounds dangerously close to a burning sacrifice. -- <dom>
Did Alan Rickman play in dogma as well? That film has big all-star / new-star cast, isn't it. Ah yes, Enoch, in practice the oldest man in the Bible - after all, Methuselah died. |
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Sep-25-11
| | Annie K.: Enoch - I believe it should be 'Enosh', with correct transliteration, ackshly - means "human". |
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Sep-25-11
| | Annie K.: ... then again, so does "Adam". :p |
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Sep-25-11
| | OhioChessFan: <so I really can't recall off the top of my head what the various sorts of angels are called in the original Hebrew.> Cherubim, Seraphim, Archangel.
Cherubim is in Genesis 3, Seraphim in Isaiah 6, Archangel in 1 Thessalonian 4. Surprisingly few references to the latter 2. |
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| Sep-25-11 | | dakgootje: A much mre creative name than metatron. Metatron just sounds like some evil transformers-character. heh: a quicky-wiki revealed there is a transformers-character called megatron. well, there's your reference ;) |
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Sep-25-11
| | OhioChessFan: <Anngelie: so I really can't recall off the top of my head what the various sorts of angels are called in the original Hebrew.> Cherubim, Seraphim, Archangel. (Not sure if there are any other types of angels. That was off the top of my head. ) Cherubim is in Genesis 3, Seraphim in Isaiah 6, Archangel in 1 Thessalonian 4. Surprisingly few references to the latter 2. |
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