Monday, March 04, 2019

When you’re making the bed, but your cat really wants to sleep in.


15 comments:

  1. Bernie is first!

    Alan, This morning I read the Guardian article on Bernie's Brooklyn and Chicago rallies. It was disappointing. Even they couldn't get much right. We knew all the 'new" stuff last time. And as for his having difficulty connecting with voters of color, that's not true. A number of black leaders wanted to support Bernie in '16, but were intimidated by the Clinton machine. You must have read the same things I did. You know it's true.

    If not even The Guardian can be relied upon to tell the truth and get facts straight, what news source *can* one rely on?

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    1. He had trouble connecting to black voters in South Carolina very early in the primary season. Or perhaps more precisely, he had trouble overcoming those voters' established respect for the Clinton name.

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    2. Hopefully, it will all be easier without Clinton in the race.

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  2. I have a copy of Tolkein's Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, Together with Sellic Spell on its way from alibris.com; I suppose a native English speaker ought to get around to reading it sooner or later; this counts as later, certainly. It probably would have been wasted on me during my youth. I do wonder how the text will fare in Tolkien's translation; ancient germanic epic poetry is a different beast from anything familiar to us today.

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    1. That said, ancient germanic epic poetry is probably a good bit more accessible than classical Latin poetry. Medieval Latin poetry is close to what we know today, but the classical stuff is another thing altogether.

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    2. It's excellent. And the commentary is fantastic! I only wish this volume had been available when I was in college and grad school. Trust me, Alan, if you're anything like me, you'll be enchanted. This Beowulf is unlike anything we've seen before. Tolkien's original tale isn't much to write home about, but that's all right; the translation and commentary are cheap at twice the price.

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    3. Thank you, Cat; I anticipated that it would be very good of its kind. Maybe I had better go to Amazon and see if they show a bit of the inside.

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  3. An Extremely Comprehensive Guide To House Judiciary’s Investigation [Click] Sounds like a pretty decent warm-up. Did they include a big bottle of antacids with each subpoena?

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    1. LOL I reckon a little heartburn is the least of the punishments the subpoenaed parties deserve.

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  4. Sometimes Nickie Kitty helps me make up the bed. Usually this means settling down in the middle of the bed and purring loudly after the bottom sheet has been fitted, but before anything else has been put on. It's a bit difficult to make the rest of the bed around her. :)

    This evening I'm planning to download and start listening to The Secret Woman by Victoria Holt. Can't recall having read any Victoria Holt for a good forty years. I'm looking forward to it.

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    1. Hmmm... Victoria Holt... Victoria Holt... the name seems familiar; pretty sure she isn't related to the Holts of Caterpillar tractor fame. Will look her up too.

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    2. Wikipedia: Eleanor Alice Hibbert (née Burford; 1 September 1906 – 18 January 1993) was an English author who combined imagination with facts to bring history alive through novels of fiction and romance. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty; Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. A literary split personality, she also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under the various pseudonyms including Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate.

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    3. Yeah, those wonderful domestic cats think they are supposed to help with all the domestic chores.

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    4. Re Tolkien's Beowulf, I did indeed read a bit of it from Amazon.com; that does sound very good. I think I shall enjoy it.

      Re cats helping with making the bed, we had one who inevitably would jump onto the bottom sheet; after a while we learned to just continue making the bed, meowing lump and all. When we had nearly finished, we held the blankets up a bit and she came out. All good.

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    5. Silly cats. I figure, mine being indoor cats, they have to get their jollies somehow! Ha!

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