Writing memes (add your favourites)

[Paul Whybrow]

 

[Paul Whybrow]

 

[Pamela Jo]

 

[Pamela Jo]

 

[Pamela Jo]

 

[Pamela Jo]

 

[Pamela Jo]

 

[Pamela Jo]

 

[Paul Whybrow]

 

[Paul Whybrow]

 

[Paul Whybrow]

 

[E G Logan]

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in the original Middle English.
I laboured over translating that for TWO YEARS. I wept blood.

After my finals I came back to my room and ... hurled it out of the 3rd floor window. Along with Beowulf (likewise in the original) and Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer and Grammar. One by one, into the rain.

Also, in a totally different context, in a primary school reading book, aged about 9, Greyfriars Bobby. That I do recommend.

 

[Pamela Jo]

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in the original Middle English.
I laboured over translating that for TWO YEARS. I wept blood.

After my finals I came back to my room and ... hurled it out of the 3rd floor window. Along with Beowulf (likewise in the original) and Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer and Grammar. One by one, into the rain.

Also, in a totally different context, in a primary school reading book, aged about 9, Greyfriars Bobby. That I do recommend.

Yes, Greyfriars Bobby is so much better than the Disney movie they made. I salute your willingness to submit yourself to the discipline. Someone has to be willing to do it or it is lost. Thinking of the young woman who told Fiona Shaw( during a Q and A with her at an ideas festival in Ireland) that Shakespeare can now be thrown out because everything written today is woke and therefore reached the pinnacle of literature. Was so excited when Heaney's translation came out. Seamus Heaney Archives - Free Audiobooks

 

[Paul Whybrow]

 

[Paul Whybrow]

 

[Paul Whybrow]

 

[Pamela Jo]

 

[Pamela Jo]

 

[Paul Whybrow]

 

[Paul Whybrow]

 

[Paul Whybrow]

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in the original Middle English.
I laboured over translating that for TWO YEARS. I wept blood.

After my finals I came back to my room and ... hurled it out of the 3rd floor window. Along with Beowulf (likewise in the original) and Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer and Grammar. One by one, into the rain.

Also, in a totally different context, in a primary school reading book, aged about 9, Greyfriars Bobby. That I do recommend.

Have you seen that newish film Gawain and The Green Knight? It is really freaky. Surreal (as it should be) A bold and refreshing change in film, quiet, slow burn, visionary, deferred gratification....

 

[Katie-Ellen]

This one is nicked from our friend @Marc Joan. A darn good writer, but he's not been around much for a while. Newer members may not know him.

 

[Dorm Ant]

Have you seen that newish film Gawain and The Green Knight? It is really freaky. Surreal (as it should be) A bold and refreshing change in film, quiet, slow burn, visionary, deferred gratification....

Wanted to like it. Struggled. Not to my taste at all. It just seemed to be trying too hard.

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

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topical buns; sad French hat buns; sweltering angry buns

 

[Paul Whybrow]

 

[Paul Whybrow]

 

[Paul Whybrow]

 

[CageSage]

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[Paul Whybrow]