Brought to you by the letter D
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smokingbootI hurt. Can't sleep, feel sick. This is such a pretty place, pity it's a plague pit...I really do not feel good. So here's a lovely meme, courtesy of illuminating_dragon
Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation of what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along.
illuminating_dragon gave me the letter 'D'
1.Daisies: Love them. Beautiful and simple, I love the way they never seem to fail - cut them down, they return in their millions, like little earth stars. To me they are symbols of life irrepressible. If I was going to have a tattoo on my scar, it should be of daisies or the sun.
2.Daybreak/Dawn:Daybreak and twilight are my favourite times. On one occasion, when a kid, my mum caught me sleepwalking. She asked me where I was going and I said, 'I will see the dawn.' And so I will. Daybreak is also the name of my favourite Maxfield Parrish painting.
3.Derceto: I just like the way the word sounds, Derceto was a sea-goddess, some kind of uber-mermaid or queen of the whales, worshipped in Syria, and look! Here she is in my icon! She is credited as the mother of the truly hot and heroic Queen Semiramis of Babylon.
4.Doughnuts: Well you know, some days they are a very good thing, some days a very bad thing, depending on the filling. Now churros, which is formed from a kind of doughnut batter, is always a very good thing, needing no filling and best dunked in thick chocolate such as you get served in Spanish chocolaterias.
5. Depeche Mode: I liked them and I don't care what anyone else says. Especially 'Violator.' So ner.
6. Dadd, Richard: Whose life and works fascinate me. Richard was a promising artist, specialising in fairy work. He went to Egypt, where he suffered some kind of breakdown, came back convinced that he was Osiris' champion on earth against Set, and killed his father in 1843. He spent many years in Broadmoor where he produced some extraordinary work. His most famous piece is 'The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke,' which he never finished. This thing is so cluttered but so still and so intense, it has an incredible power of its own. On screen it is hard to appreciate it. I think it lives in the Tate now.
7. Directions. I'm really seriously bad at these. There's left and then there's the other left. Don't shout at me, I didn't get us lost!
8. Donne, John: Out of favour now, even with me and I used to love him. This metaphysical poet was at his best when he was being physical ('Come Madam come*, all rest my powers defy. Until I labour I in labour lie...Oh my America! My new found land!' - Elegy 19) He became a mighty star of the church and got terribly sour about love and women. But he did write his famous Meditation 17:
'No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'
9.Darwin, Charles: Who apparently set forth in a beagle and found the first iguanas, or so one of my very earliest essays informs me. What a knowledgeable creature I was!
10. Debbie. It's my name!
* You there at the back! Stop sniggering!
illuminating_dragonComment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation of what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along.
illuminating_dragon gave me the letter 'D'1.Daisies: Love them. Beautiful and simple, I love the way they never seem to fail - cut them down, they return in their millions, like little earth stars. To me they are symbols of life irrepressible. If I was going to have a tattoo on my scar, it should be of daisies or the sun.
2.Daybreak/Dawn:Daybreak and twilight are my favourite times. On one occasion, when a kid, my mum caught me sleepwalking. She asked me where I was going and I said, 'I will see the dawn.' And so I will. Daybreak is also the name of my favourite Maxfield Parrish painting.
3.Derceto: I just like the way the word sounds, Derceto was a sea-goddess, some kind of uber-mermaid or queen of the whales, worshipped in Syria, and look! Here she is in my icon! She is credited as the mother of the truly hot and heroic Queen Semiramis of Babylon.
4.Doughnuts: Well you know, some days they are a very good thing, some days a very bad thing, depending on the filling. Now churros, which is formed from a kind of doughnut batter, is always a very good thing, needing no filling and best dunked in thick chocolate such as you get served in Spanish chocolaterias.
5. Depeche Mode: I liked them and I don't care what anyone else says. Especially 'Violator.' So ner.
6. Dadd, Richard: Whose life and works fascinate me. Richard was a promising artist, specialising in fairy work. He went to Egypt, where he suffered some kind of breakdown, came back convinced that he was Osiris' champion on earth against Set, and killed his father in 1843. He spent many years in Broadmoor where he produced some extraordinary work. His most famous piece is 'The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke,' which he never finished. This thing is so cluttered but so still and so intense, it has an incredible power of its own. On screen it is hard to appreciate it. I think it lives in the Tate now.
7. Directions. I'm really seriously bad at these. There's left and then there's the other left. Don't shout at me, I didn't get us lost!
8. Donne, John: Out of favour now, even with me and I used to love him. This metaphysical poet was at his best when he was being physical ('Come Madam come*, all rest my powers defy. Until I labour I in labour lie...Oh my America! My new found land!' - Elegy 19) He became a mighty star of the church and got terribly sour about love and women. But he did write his famous Meditation 17:
'No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'
9.Darwin, Charles: Who apparently set forth in a beagle and found the first iguanas, or so one of my very earliest essays informs me. What a knowledgeable creature I was!
10. Debbie. It's my name!
* You there at the back! Stop sniggering!
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Re: What a lovely idea!
Date: 2006-04-29 07:52 am (UTC)And here, have a soft and luscious Mmmm to set you off!