The time has come, the Walrus said

[Nevermore]

to speak of many things...

Should break up this post but I am working on a bilateral treaty under the Robynhood clause so there is a good possibility I can buy my way out of my current problem (I love capitalism).

Firstly, Canadians have a long weekend this weekend. Yup, Queen Victoria's Day (her birthday). If that ain't quaint, I don't know what is.

Secondly, I am signed up to go to golf school for three days next week. My first vacation this year. We are leaving the child. I am omitting exclamation marks.

Thirdly, third load of laundry is being processed. I am omitting exclamation marks.

Fourthly, everyone is so sweet about my Magritte piece but it was done pre lost Muse--I just posted it because Kaza's Will You Marry Me made me think of it.

Fifthly, while I think about it, nobody noticed Molly was actually duped, transformed and resting on the fore pussy willow too. Obviously the blend mode was a little too subtle on that one.

Sixthly, I have to work again this weekend but the secondly and firstly are rubbing a little balm on that.

Seventhly, when do I have to have the name for the person in my tribe? I have been looking up words here and there but not sure I have the perfect one yet. Getting worried.

Eighthly, relatives have gone home but Ninthly, have an anniversary party tonight when all I really want is

Tenthly: freshly laundered flannel jammies, sleazoid paperback and bed.

[skyescrapz]

to speak of many things...



of shoes and ships and sealing wax
of cabbages and kings
and why the sea is boiling hot
and whether pigs have wings...

I memorized that when I was young. :)

[Nevermore]

Okay, kiddo, I was going to let your Tally Man comment slip by but I have to credit you with this. You definitely did get the lyrics right (but failed to segue into a DAAAAAAAYYYYYYOOOOOO, DDDDDAAAAYYYYOOOOO). Perhaps you are saving that for a follow up post? And yes, certainly that was the inspiration but I was too exhausted to go to stock exchange to look for bananas (sp?).

I have a few oldies but goodies such as this memorized from younger days, too. I used to do that for fun --I think I have about 65 stanzas of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, most of Poe, a healthy chunk of Shakespeare and most of the major classics. What has been interesting for me is continuing to find meaning and resonance in them. Sometimes, I have discovered the meaning for the first time--I was pretty young and lots of words, meanings, nuances completely escaped me. I find it very comforting, almost mantra like to fall back on them. It can cause consternation when you stumble through the office muttering "ah wretch said they such birds to slay that make the breeze to blow"...

[skyescrapz]

Okay, kiddo, I was going to let your Tally Man comment slip by but I have to credit you with this. You definitely did get the lyrics right (but failed to segue into a DAAAAAAAYYYYYYOOOOOO, DDDDDAAAAYYYYOOOOO). Perhaps you are saving that for a follow up post? And yes, certainly that was the inspiration but I was too exhausted to go to stock exchange to look for bananas (sp?).

I was singing that part in my mind. Believe when I say that you would not want to hear me singing the Daaaayyyyooooo's. Just saving your ears. It's the kind thing to do...

I have a few oldies but goodies such as this memorized from younger days, too. I used to do that for fun --I think I have about 65 stanzas of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, most of Poe, a healthy chunk of Shakespeare and most of the major classics. What has been interesting for me is continuing to find meaning and resonance in them. Sometimes, I have discovered the meaning for the first time--I was pretty young and lots of words, meanings, nuances completely escaped me. I find it very comforting, almost mantra like to fall back on them. It can cause consternation when you stumble through the office muttering "ah wretch said they such birds to slay that make the breeze to blow"...

Isn't it funny what we commit to memory sometimes? Really, if you think about it, what else could we be using those brain cells for? All sorts of things. I'm not saying the memorization is bad, per se. Just making me think about it is all.

Ok, how's this for quirky? My brother and I have the entire movie of The Music Man committed to memory. Lemme tell ya, we were a ton of fun on long car trips. My POOR PARENTS! Anyway, when I had to have an MRI for a herniated disc, I got VERY claustrophobic in the MRI thingie and I calmed myself by reciting The Music Man in my head, songs and all, to get myself through it. Your comment about things being comforting made me think of that...

How 'bout this:

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogroves,
And the mome rathes outgrabe.
Beware the Jabberwock, my son...
(blah blah blah)
(excuse any misspellings -- I didn't commit the word spellings to memory -- just the sound and cadence)

[Nevermore]

Yup, Jabberwocky, I did that one too (I said the major classics, right!). For me, comfort a la dentist/mri kind of thing is the old lyrical stuff (same roots as music I suppose? What do I know? Strike that, sorry, I am mature, intelligent and objective). The romantic ick stuff that grabbed me when so young--Lochinvar, Annabel Lee, The Highwayman. Kind of the Harlequin romance of poetry.

[skyescrapz]

Yup, Jabberwocky, I did that one too (I said the major classics, right!). For me, comfort a la dentist/mri kind of thing is the old lyrical stuff (same roots as music I suppose? What do I know? Strike that, sorry, I am mature, intelligent and objective). The romantic ick stuff that grabbed me when so young--Lochinvar, Annabel Lee, The Highwayman. Kind of the Harlequin romance of poetry.

Ah, see, you are showing that you are multi-dimensional and have varied tastes!!! I also have stuff like Ozymandias in my craw. Isn't it funny what sticks? I was never forced to memorize stuff for school like that that I can recall. Why is it there? (Ok, yeah, I am addicted to the written word and I like poetry and quotes and words used in cool ways... but still?) I don't have much Shakespeare, I'm afraid. I don't think I'm any worse for not having that memorized though. I mean I know the throwaway line or two, but I can't do entire passages.

[Nevermore]

I can't really answer why it is there--I suspect people have done entire PHDs on it but for me I guess it is simply that language is beautiful. And language that has a beat, like music, is hard to resist. This can't be the total answer. We love rhyme even as infants. But why some of us have this need to commit large chunks of it to heart escapes me. But glad I put the hours in when young, I sure don't have them now! Kind of funny but my dad kicked this off for me when I was about 8 by giving me a few lines of onomatopoeic stuff: The Raven, How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix etc. I was hooked. And I find myself laying this on my kid. And he is hooked. I digress--and look, what wasteful posting!

With your obvious love of language, do you use words/quotes/poetry much in your stuff? Over 75% of mine is basically illustration--poetry, lyrics, quotes, stories.

[kygirl]

Wasteful posting, Nevermore? There is no such thing, especially when you're talking about poetry and prose. I went to a school where you were forced to memorize passages of poetry and Shakespeare. I think that took all the fun out of it for me.
However, Lewis Carroll does tend to stick with me -- "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place."

[Vania16]

You guys have such great stuff memorized! I was an English major in college, but I never really got into memorization - probably due to years of being forced to memorize the Heidelberg Catechism as a kid LOL - I literally had to memorize every single bit of it for church school!

[Nevermore]

Vania, I have never heard of the Heidelberg Catechism. I will have to check it out. Can you still remember chunks of it?

[Vania16]

It's one of the main creeds of the reformed protestant theology. The only part I still know by memory is the first question and answer (the whole thing is written in question and answer format) . . .

Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death?

A. That I am not my own, but belong body and soul, in life and in death to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven: in fact, all things must work together for my salvation. Because I belong to him, Christ, by his Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him.

Although I don't believe a lot of the theology of the creed anymore, I still think the first answer is a beautiful expression of faith :)

[Nevermore]

That is beautiful Lisa. I especially like the imperative: all things must work together for my salvation.

[skyescrapz]

With your obvious love of language, do you use words/quotes/poetry much in your stuff? Over 75% of mine is basically illustration--poetry, lyrics, quotes, stories.

Well, considering I just started quirking a week ago, the answer would have to be no... so far. But I do like using good quotes in my scrapbook pages. And I have notebooks full of quotes and poems and song lyrics and sayings that I love and have been collecting them since high school. I never really knew why -- just that I liked them all and liked having them in one place. When I started scrapping, I realized why I'd been compiling quote, etc. for so long -- I'd need them one day for my art! :)

[Nevermore]

What do you mean you just started quirking a week ago? Sorry, I don't understand?

[skyescrapz]

What do you mean you just started quirking a week ago? Sorry, I don't understand?

I just did my very first quirky layout a week ago tonight. I had only been doing more basic digi scrap layouts prior to that. Well, some of them were kinda edgy, but I wouldn't call my layouts prior to last weekend quirky, really. I am still a quirking novice, really...

[Nevermore]

I haven't totally grokked what a quirky layout is. When I first came here I went a little off the deep edge getting worried and nervous about it but the good folk here told me to cut it out and just get on with it. Hmmm. Now that I think about it, when I went a little off the deep edge getting worried and nervous because I haven't scrapped in ages the good folk here told me to cut it out and just get on with it. . . is it just me or is there a pattern here?

[diannerigdon]

Well I know all you folks are the right kind of parents. But Im going to be perfectly frank. Do you know what kind of conversation goes on while they mosey around that hall?! They'll be talking about Bevo, talking about ? they'll be talking about tailormade like cigarette fiends and bragging all about how to cover up the tell tale scent of sen-sen. One fine night they leave the dance at the armory headed to the pool hall...libertine men and scarlet women and RAG TIME!

Aw heck I used to know it better but the process of typing it makes me forget it! LOL. I could have performed it for you though! And of course I can sing most of the songs. Just one of those things. ;-) Love that musical -thanks for the reminder. (Hi guys! My first post here!)

[kygirl]

Dianne, so glad you showed up. I had a feeling from a few of your posts at SA that you might have a quirky side. Feel free to sing for us anytime.

[skyescrapz]

Well I know all you folks are the right kind of parents. But Im going to be perfectly frank. Do you know what kind of conversation goes on while they mosey around that hall?! They'll be talking about Bevo, talking about ? they'll be talking about tailormade like cigarette fiends and bragging all about how to cover up the tell tale scent of sen-sen. One fine night they leave the dance at the armory headed to the pool hall...libertine men and scarlet women and RAG TIME!

Aw heck I used to know it better but the process of typing it makes me forget it! LOL. I could have performed it for you though! And of course I can sing most of the songs. Just one of those things. ;-) Love that musical -thanks for the reminder. (Hi guys! My first post here!)


DIANNE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just howled when I read this AND I will continue for a wee moment where you left off....

"... shameless music, that'll grab your son, your daughter into the arms of jungle animal instint. MASS-teria! Friends, the idle brain is the devil's playground. Trouble. Oh we got trouble. Right here in River City..."

OMG, you just made my day quoting that to me. I never run into anyone that knows it like we do -- unless they were in the stage production or something... LOL. Don't mind us folks, Dianne and I are going to put on a little stage production here in this thread... LOLOLOLOL....

[skyescrapz]

I haven't totally grokked what a quirky layout is. When I first came here I went a little off the deep edge getting worried and nervous about it but the good folk here told me to cut it out and just get on with it. Hmmm. Now that I think about it, when I went a little off the deep edge getting worried and nervous because I haven't scrapped in ages the good folk here told me to cut it out and just get on with it. . . is it just me or is there a pattern here?

Gosh, just cut it out and just get on with it....

(sorry, I couldn't resist...)

:D :D :D