And to think I spent my day, amongst other Things, saying Mass, reading
Herbert's "Countrey Parson", listening to King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
(recently remastered), and pretending that my bottom-shelf bourbon was
top-shelf single malt.
I sometimes imagine I'll dive into the FQ again, but doubt I'll have the
fortitude!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of James C. Nohrnberg
> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 10:26 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: The Fairy without Peer
>
>
> Dear Father Logsdon: Nonsense. Prof. N's Sunday Morning Service
> (light and
> dark) has been duly conducted at the Altar of the Maytag with a
> Chalice of
> Cheer. (He has also scrubbed the bathtub, made the beds, cooked
> the chicken
> for dinner, spent an hour on the phone providing commentary on Par. Lost
> XI-XII to his student from Yale ca. 1972 (with special attention to its
> Christianity before the fact, as in Book III), read F.Kermode on
> Geo. Orwell
> in the NYRevBks., observed to his wife all the deviations from
> Homer in the
> movie _Troy_ on the TV while also watching a film about a girl
> who rejected
> Harvard in order to pursue ice-skating--she had to do it. Life
> is full of
> both choices and unchosen necessities. -- Jim N.
>
> On Sun, 27 May 2007 21:56:35 -0700
> "Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > You people have, on a Sunday, yet, much, too much time on your hands.
> >
> > And bless the Lord for it! <wink>,
> > ----
> > Etc,
> >
> >Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon, Vicar-general
> > North American Old Roman Catholic Church (Utrecht Succession)
> > Archdiocese of California
> > www.naorc.org
> >
> > "Simplicity, when it is not a careless gift of the Muse, is the last and
> > most painful achievement of conscientious self-denial." - James Russell
> > Lowell.
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List
> >> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of James C. Nohrnberg
> >> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 9:52 PM
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: The Peri Princess
> >>
> >>
> >> The Glorious Oread
> >> The Fay Complete
> >> Miss Mab 0'Majesty
> >> The Sylphs' Suzerain
> >> The Peri Pan-Queen (Pranquean)
> >> The Imp Infanta
> >> The Tudor Titania
> >> The Pixies' Princess
> >> Fata Gloriana
> >> The Pierless Ferry
> >>
> >> -- Jim N.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, 27 May 2007 16:24:11 -0400
> >> "James C. Nohrnberg" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> > -- Devilishly clever. (Or The Ferry Pier / Fairy Peer ; The Ferry
> >> >Marine). But his is turning into Winnegans Fake.
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, 27 May 2007 12:52:15 -06
> >> > Dorothy Stephens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> If we're allowed to pun on both words: The Shallop Trollop.
> >> >>
> >> >> But The Barely / Rarely Seen is hard to surpass.
> >> >>
> >> >> Dot
> >> >
> >> > [log in to unmask]
> >> > James Nohrnberg
> >> > Dept. of English, Bryan Hall 219
> >> > Univ. of Virginia
> >> > P.O Box 400121
> >> > Charlottesville, VA 22904-4121
> >>
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >> James Nohrnberg
> >> Dept. of English, Bryan Hall 219
> >> Univ. of Virginia
> >> P.O Box 400121
> >> Charlottesville, VA 22904-4121
>
> [log in to unmask]
> James Nohrnberg
> Dept. of English, Bryan Hall 219
> Univ. of Virginia
> P.O Box 400121
> Charlottesville, VA 22904-4121
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