Reminded of....

[English Lady]

I was on the phone to my mum this morning and she was telling me about her awful day yesterday. She's just gone back into auxhilary nursing after a good long break(20 years+) and is now being flung into wards as an actual nurse type person not as a trainee. She found herself on an acute ward yesterday with lots of people with neurological problems,most of whom had recently come from having surgery. She was out of her depth.


Anyhow she told me about this lady who was semi-comatose. She smiled and blinked her eyes when mum spoke to her,the only movement she could make but it made Mum feel as if she was really doing something and making a difference.


Anyway getting to my point....this reminded me very much of some of U.A. Fanthorpes poetry. Fanthorpe worked in a hospital for a while and wrote lots of fantastic poems from her experiences. I cannot remember one precise poem but I remember the feel of them. Despair and hope,being on the very edge of life and death,the miracle of life day by day...

Well I read UA Fanthorpe in College as part of my english lit/lang course and hadn't seen anything by her since. I thought it was strange how these feelings and emotions evoked by my mum's tale reminded me so much of those I experienced back in college reading poetry. It was almost as if I was transported back to hearing those poems being read out loud.

Has this happened to you? Do you find bits of literary coming into your mind completely unbidden and as somewhat as a surprise?

 

[Guest]

Lady, what a lovely post, thank you. And thanks to whoever recently bade you to say 'more stuff' . Your mum sounds lovely too, and without knowing more I can see you well as her special bloom.

Yes, art has a way of embedding itself in one's heart and mind. Images from paintings or films, poetry, phrases from Shakespeare and opera come to me often, seemingly out of the blue. One AH bloke often recalls Jacques from AYL for me (haven't met RII yet, haha).

bless you,

Perdita

 

[shereads]

Yes, E.L.

It happens most often with music, but there are times when I'm reminded of a passage from a favorite book.

It happens even more often with Monty Python, though.

If I had a dollar for every time I've sat in a meeting at work and thought, "It's not much of a cheese shop, is it..."

 

[MathGirl]

Originally posted by shereads It happens even more often with Monty Python, though.

Dear Sherea,
Every time I see a pet shop or notice a person with an unusual walk.
Merely stunned,
MG

 

[Guest]

I think of Ogg whenever I see a man with a cake on his head; probably happens more in CA than other places though.

However, I don't think of Gauche when I watch any of the LotR movies. Wonder what that's about.

Perdita

 

[Svenskaflicka]

As a surprise? Not anymore.

I get all sorts of literary associations and "re-plays" in my head while I'm doing something else.

Mostly Harry Potter, but also Swedish literature, like quotes from detective stories by Maria Lang.

 

[English Lady]

Thanks Perdita It always amazes me how the memory stores things away and just pops them up from time to time when you least expect it Blessings to you too..


Shereads &MG.....oh dear...oh dear..oh dear....please for the love of all things sacred don't get going on the*gulp* dead parrot sketch! I may well explode....or the lumberjack song..or the spam sketch *groans* my hubby has bored me to death with all of them! i can't take any more!


Svenskaflicka,I think if you read alot it's just natural for quotes to pop into your mind all the time,especially if they're from books you've read over and over again.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Svenskaflicka,I think if you read alot it's just natural for quotes to pop into your mind all the time,especially if they're from books you've read over and over again.

During sex, too?



Thank goodness Hubby has a sense of humor.

 

[English Lady]

*giggling*


i really cant remeber the last time i spouted anything Shakespearian at the point of climax it must be said...I'm not cultured enough apparently!*L*

 

[Svenskaflicka]

"Oh, Romeo! Romeo!"

 

[English Lady]

"Wherefore art though Romeo?"


prbably not encouraging for the poor guy really.....it's like saying"are you in there yet?"

 

[Svenskaflicka]

My quote sounds more like an orgasm.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

"What d'you mean, I'm not brave in bed?"

 

[Svenskaflicka]

"Quite astonishing, the way you contrive to wriggle out of very tight holes."

 

[lewdandlicentious]

Hello Lady,

It's me, the Rude one!

Sorry to drop the tone of your thread by my mere presence, but I had to say that for me, it's Blackadder.

I don't remember many now, it's a long time since I've seen them all, but for every situation in life, there's a Blackadder quote that fits.

From:

"SAUSAGES! SAUSAGES! Blast your eyes!"

Or simply:

"Bugger!"

 

[Black Tulip]

Ah, no, if it's Blackadder there is only one quote:

BALDRIC You hollered sir?

 

[English Lady]

Hello Lewd...that's not Alyson Hannigan in your AV is it? It looks a bit like her...my husband...loves her and therefore has probably got a whole picture of that somewhere*L*



Blackadder huh? Very erm..high brow