The "cruciatus" curse is the one you cast in Harry Potter to inflict
terrible pain on an opponent.
Found in many poems
P cruciatusly
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: 09 April 2010 10:28
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Subject: Re: After Slumber xi
On Friday 09 Apr 2010 07:26:33 you wrote:
> I wondered where you'd been, Dom. This is wonderfully out of fashion,
> rather like a 'tis the excellent foppery of this world' speech re-written
> for a new Edgar in a play by Geoffrey Hill's younger brother. I'm serious
> abolut the play comparison, I respond to this is as if a speech in an
> almost
> unstageable linguistically ornate verse play. A very dark play, maybe
> Jonsonian in mood, rather Shakespearian.
> Which is of course probably a complete misreading but at least it's my
> misreading!
Cheers Dave! "Geoffrey Hill's younger brother" - oh dear. Oh well.
The opening phrase is a paraphrase of John Major's "Society needs to condemn
a
little more and understand a little less" (with respect to young offenders).
The rest was stirred up by recent coverage of the re-arrest of Jon Venables.
So "dark" is certainly the mood...
The "cruciatus" curse is the one you cast in Harry Potter to inflict
terrible
pain on an opponent.
Dominic
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