As with its French equivalents, much of the British New Wave looks horribly dated in a modern context: all that light jazz, casual romantic disaffection and overeager jump-cutting doesn’t really wash with contemporary audiences. But what’s beyond criticism is the commitment to emotional veracity...
If they lose that purpose, they lose their name, and gradually waste away to death. The blue-haired fairy is one such fairy and has been for a long time. The other fairies ostracize fairies who lost their names.[12] “Mash” advises against inviting the nameless fairy to their tent, ...
An important part of the process of falling in love is creating our own little world, and our language plays a big role in that. When we meet and fall in love, a whole new language develops, one of play-words and silly names that no one but the happy couple understands. This ...
During in December 2022, I wrote a post on the traces of faery belief that are preserved in Englishplacenames. I now want to extend that study over the border, into Wales. Back in 1969, the scholar of Welsh language and literature Melville Richards (1910-73) wrote a chapter in a volume...
See also: Names of numbers in English When saying or writing out numbers, the British will insert an "and" before the tens and units, as in "one hundred and sixty-two" and "two thousand and three", whereas Americans will typically drop the "and" as in "two thousand three"; however...
A collection of re-written poems that, in their original form, were published in a book in Manila, where the author was then working. Asia is everywhere in these poems, permeating every line. BUY THIS TITLE Martin AndersonA Country Without Names ...
death, even before / life has begun', but they engage no refusal, just the overturning of willful stasis and a lyric luring of the undone into poetic doing, to light.Hoodoo Voodoo'slast section's dark streaming of figures through landscapes… I'm overwhelmed by the beauty that is this ...
there were 10 girls bearing the name. Sibling names includedCaswallon,Iorworth,Morfudd,GwerfylandCeinfron, all names from early Welsh history and legend. It is curious these parents didn't use other "new" Welsh names, which suggests that Eilonwy was at least considered at the time to have...
On the day fixed, that is Friday the 20thDecember, all the Teachers and all the children assembled on the School grounds at 5.30 in the morning and the roll was called, when 900 answered their names. All the wagons in Camp has been requisitioned and every available ox, mule and donkey ...
Start by buttering your mould well; if you are using a basin with a lid, butter that too. Now beat the butter and caster sugar with an electric mixer, or a wooden spoon, until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time into the butter and sugar – use a high speed if usi...