Crikey, and when you wrote W. S. I thought of Gilbert!
Sorry!
Now o'er the one half-world
50 Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
51 The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
52 Pale Hecat's off'rings; and wither'd Murder,
53 Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
54 Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace,
55 With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
56 Moves like a ghost.
Max
On 4/06/10 6:20 PM, "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Max
>
> "With Tarquin's Ravishing Stride" (I believe is the exact quote, a certain
> Mr W.S). It's possibly a bit extraneous and may have to go :)
>
> The strigils kicked off the poem, these guys really did believe in slavery,
> the equality of the sexes, talking to the dead, and bathroom accessories.
> We are one weird species.
>
> best
>
> DAve
>
>
>
> On 4 June 2010 08:39, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> A lot in this, Dave. (Stumbling over strigils, I looked them up and find I
>> could
>> buy tiles for my bathroom thus:
>>
>> http://www.finearttiles.co.uk/browse.php?pictureid=6
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>> and is Tarquin's Ravenous Pride with its capitals harking back also to
>> something
>> 19th century British...?)
>>
>> Max
>> Quoting David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>:
>>
>>> *Itıd be like a holiday to think of History making sense*
>>>
>>> like (as in the case of) the Etruscans
>>>
>>> (of Tarquinıs Ravenous Pride)
>>>
>>> fingering their faience beads and beliefs: in womanly
>>> libido and the bodily equality of sexes, O mi Chianti, slavery,
>>> the physical persistence of the soul in the after-life,
>>>
>>> its languorous couches hung with dangling, attainable grapes,
>>> and bathroom accessories
>>> placating the restless
>>> sleep-walking dead
>>> with hungry gossip and the latest strigils and loofahs
>>>
>>> Volscian Commissions on affordable Housing for Ancestral Profiles
>>>
>>> while the squaring Romans drilled in the distant hills.
>>>
>>>
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