This morning's cup of coffee (or rather, this morning's coffee milkshake), at the Tim's around the corner, courtesy ofthe lovely Dr. G.
photo date 8/12/09
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I just finished reading this:
Van Helsing and his Crew of Light
are somewhat inept, no?
"Professor, let me be your pet student again. Tell me the thesis, so that I may apply your knowledge as you go on. At present I am going in my mind from point to point as a mad man, and not a sane one, follows an idea. I feel like a novice blundering through a bog in a mist, jumping from one tussock to another in the mere blind effort to move on without knowing where I am going." (205-206)
Battles, dancing, monsters, music, blood and guts and twue wuv ... all in all, a delightful read.
"Cyclops, you ask me for my famous name. I will tell you / then, but you must give me a guest gift as you have promised. / Nobody is my name. My father and mother call me Nobody, as do all the others who are my companions." / 'So I spoke, and he answered me in pitiless spirit: / '"Then I will eat Nobody after his friends, and the others / I will eat first, and that shall be my guest present to you." / 'He spoke and slumped away and fell on his back, and lay there / with his thick neck crooked over on one side, and sleep who subdues all / came on and captured him, and the wine gurgled up from his gullet / with gobs of human meat. This was his drunken vomiting.
(9.364-374)
"As with mariners shipwrecked near a coast, it would have been better for the good swimmers if they had been able to swim still further, whereas it would have been better for the bad swimmers if they had not been able to swim at all and had stuck to the wreck." (105)
I love Darwin's similes and metaphors.
"Yet he left not his love-gift, the lady's girdle; / Gawain, for his own good, forgot not that: / When the bright sword was belted and bound on his haunches, / Then twice with that token he twined him about." (4.2030-2033)
Oh, Gawain. I'm a little disappointed -- the belt is not *actually* magic, you know.
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