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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Who Are You?
Prop to be used teaching Shakespeare's Hamlet: the graveyard scene. "Alas, poor Yorik. I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest . . . ." Or something like that. When that task comes around, I'll know my lines.
Small Face: sculpture mix; shiny black and (fake) Shino glazes.
My favorite word--garsecg--from the Old English Beowulf is a kenning or poetic riddle-word for the sea. It means "the spear-man," perhaps the echo of a figure like the Norse Aegir or some other surly northern Neptune. In other texts, garsecg seems to be an adjective meaning "sea-like," "stormy" or "tempestuous."