I'll get back to you..: October 2020

Saturday 31 October 2020

Monday 26 October 2020

Sunday 25 October 2020

Friday 23 October 2020

Magic carpets made of steel

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, first published in New York on April Fool's Day 1857, is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book was published on the exact day of the novel's setting. Though centered around the title character,

The Confidence-Man portrays a group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans.

"And the sons Pullman porters and sons of engineers ride their fathers magic carpets made of of steel."

Thursday 22 October 2020

Pearl

Pearl (Middle English: Perle) is a late 14th-century Middle English poem that is considered one of the most important surviving Middle English works. With elements of medieval allegory and dream vision genre, the poem is written in a North-West Midlands variety of Middle English and highly—though not consistently—alliterative; there is a complex system of stanza linking and other stylistic features.

A father, mourning the loss of his "perle" (pearl), falls asleep in a garden; in his dream he encounters the 'Pearl-maiden'—a beautiful and heavenly woman—standing across a stream in a strange landscape. In response to his questioning and attempts to obtain her, she answers with Christian doctrine. Eventually she shows him an image of the Heavenly City, and herself as part of the retinue of Christ the Lamb. When the Dreamer attempts to cross the stream, he awakens suddenly from his dream and reflects on its significance.

The poem survives in a single manuscript, London, British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x, which includes two other religious narrative poems: Patience, and Cleanness, and the romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. All are thought to be by the same author, dubbed the "Pearl poet" or "Gawain poet", on the evidence of stylistic and thematic similarities.

[wikipedia]

Thursday 8 October 2020

Don Spencer - Fireball xl5 - Stereo remix

one comment said 'takes me back to a happy place every time i hear it'..

i agree, but seems weird in this age of technos and mobile phones that tv was one time

only available in black and white?..i dont dislike mono but colour affects mood..

and i picture ..' '...can you guess the colour..?