Posted in Life, Literature, Mixed Waves, Nature on October 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
Sjaldan er ein báran stök This is an old Icelandic saying, which literarily means that a wave (bára) rarely (sjaldan) comes alone (stök). Waves always come one after another. This saying is used when one bad thing after another seems to happen, they seem to come in waves. Don’t you recognize the feeling that sometimes [...]
Posted in Literature on February 4th, 2007 2 Comments »
The Odyssey is full of waves. If you inquire about particular ones, the Lookup Tool at Perseus picks out, for instance, Book 3 in which Odysseus tells us of the time when Menelaus … in his turn, as he passed over the wine-dark sea in the hollow ships, reached in swift course the steep height of Malea, then verily Zeus, whose voice is borne afar, planned [...]
Posted in Literature, Mixed Waves on January 24th, 2007 4 Comments »
E’s post Being a Fish reminds me that the very same Danish poet – Pia Tafdrup – published an amazing collection of poems in 1998 called Dronningeporten. It is devided into nine sections – all named after the different shapes of water: The Drop The Lake The River The Well The Sea The Liquids of [...]
Posted in Literature on January 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
Alright then! I’d like to share a brainwave (at some length) which rolls off from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971), a story generally full of action and hectic dialogue which makes this low-key socalled wave speech in Chapter 8 all the more elevating by contrast. It is Raoul Duke, the first person narrator, [...]