tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post346743164909828325..comments2024-03-18T17:05:21.126+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: 'Footfalls echo in the memory...' Sue PurkissUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-30600411117594727562011-11-30T13:11:58.326+00:002011-11-30T13:11:58.326+00:00"I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris and he/ I..."I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris and he/ I galloped, Dirk galloped, we galloped all three" - we were forced to learn acres of poetry at school, and very little now remains wedged between my ears except for that particular, wonderfully galloping text! <br /><br />And 'Home is the sailor, home from sea/ And the hunter home from the hill' That was in a book by Rumer Godden which I had as a child, and for some reason it stuck in my mind. I've just looked it up and fund it was RLS's chosen inscription for his gravestone. <br /><br />Isn't it weird, the t5hings that stick?madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-58964446986230385412011-11-27T14:49:58.412+00:002011-11-27T14:49:58.412+00:00Thanks for all your comments, and sorry I wasn'...Thanks for all your comments, and sorry I wasn't able to get back to you earlier. More lovely quotes - and so many from Terry Pratchett!Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-71396210941471656232011-11-25T18:44:57.617+00:002011-11-25T18:44:57.617+00:00"As highly bred as a hill-top bakery ..."..."As highly bred as a hill-top bakery ..."<br />Pratchett again. When my dad was having chemo I collected Pratchettisms to tell him over the phone - a good phone call was one where I could get him to laugh!<br /><br />I wonder if it has to do with rhythm, these phrases that stick in our minds?<br /><br />Thanks for the great post!Joan Lennonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15763862159032836768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-22321298648508163832011-11-25T18:05:09.890+00:002011-11-25T18:05:09.890+00:00Love that Vimes quote!!!!!Love that Vimes quote!!!!!Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-22882609495739876532011-11-25T18:04:21.466+00:002011-11-25T18:04:21.466+00:00A poem I read last night (and that I can't hel...A poem I read last night (and that I can't help being moved by) is by RLS: "Christmas at Sea". It's about being aboard a sailing ship and the struggles of the sailors trying to make it around a headland. The ship goes so close to shore that "he" can see his village & family home on that headland. although they do not know he is passing on board the ship. It ends with: <br /><br />"And they heav'd a mighty breath, every soul aboard but me, / As they saw her nose again pointing out to sea: /But all that I could think of in the darkness and the cold / Was just that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old."<br /><br />Will go and sit by myself for a while now. Sniff!Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-8425863010037563292011-11-25T17:51:16.341+00:002011-11-25T17:51:16.341+00:00I meant to add - lovely post!I meant to add - lovely post!Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-23354930311889038052011-11-25T17:50:40.285+00:002011-11-25T17:50:40.285+00:00Another quote from Pratchett, from his latest, ...Another quote from Pratchett, from his latest, 'Snuff'. Commander Vimes is thinking of taking his small son to meet the lady who writes the boy's favourite books. Vimes thinks, 'Since she's a writer, she won't mind being interrupted.' I LOLed and nearly dropped me kindle!<br />Why do some lines stick in the memory? - Surely because they're things 'often thought but ne'er so well expressed.'Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-53368956291683247572011-11-25T16:41:47.560+00:002011-11-25T16:41:47.560+00:00It can even be just a couple of words for me. Some...It can even be just a couple of words for me. Something from a meaningful email or text, or just something enigmatic like "Rara avis". And they get recalled years later.Sarah Taylor-Fergussonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01507013836947182706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-66683324803559857252011-11-25T16:21:38.171+00:002011-11-25T16:21:38.171+00:00What a lovely, interesting post. Sadly, my memory ...What a lovely, interesting post. Sadly, my memory for words isn't good. In fact, I tend to remember bits and fill in the gaps with my own! But something I read as a child sticks in my mind and it is a Spike Milligan poem, Myxomatosis, and goes 'A baby rabbit. With eyes full of pus. This is the work. Of scientific us.' The image isn't a pleasant one and was summed up so well in these few lines, that it has always stayed with me.Abi Burlinghamhttp://www.abiburlingham.talktalk.netnoreply@blogger.com