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Art Neuendorffer
Oct 24, 2004, 10:25:07 AM10/24/04
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Early in 1608 Caravaggio went to Malta and was received as a celebrated
artist. Fearful of pursuit, he continued to FLEE for two more years,
but his paintings of this time were among the greatest of his career.
After receiving a pardon from the pope, he was wrongfully arrested &
imprisoned for two days. A boat that was to take him to Rome left
without him, taking his belongings. Misfortune, exhaustion, and
illness overtook him as he helplessly watched the boat depart.
He collapsed on the beach and died a few days later on July 18, 1610.
Early in 1608 Caravaggio went to Malta and was received as a celebrated
artist. Fearful of pursuit, he continued to FLEE for two more years,
but his paintings of this time were among the greatest of his career.
After receiving a pardon from the pope, he was wrongfully arrested &
imprisoned for two days. A boat that was to take him to Rome left
without him, taking his belongings. Misfortune, exhaustion, and
illness overtook him as he helplessly watched the boat depart.
He collapsed on the beach and died a few days later on July 18, 1610.
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SHOW BOAT (1951): tearful drunk Julie LAVerne
(AVa Gardner) watches Show Boat depart
ON THE BEACH (1959): tearful drunk Moira DAVidson
(AVa Gardner) watches Submarine depart
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Rhine Sagas, as they have been told in Germany *throughout history* :
http://www.operastars.com/saga1.htm
Lohengrin, The SVVAN Knight of Kleve
<<As he spoke these words, the SWAN came gliding by, still harnessed to
the golden boat as it was so many years ago. It barely touched the bank
and Lohengrin was already inside. As the SWAN and the boat moved off,
Lohengrin did not glace back. Desperately, ELSA followed along the bank,
but she could not catch him. Heart-broken she returned to the castle
and she never again saw Lohengrin, no matter how often she visited the
banks in the vain hope of finding him. Her three sons remained her only
friends. They developed great chivalrous virtues, and they passed on
their strength and wisdom to many a later generation. They all bore
the SWAN in their coat of arms, and proudly called themselves
"the SWAN Knights of Kleve".
SHOW BOAT (1951): tearful drunk Julie LAVerne
(AVa Gardner) watches Show Boat depart
ON THE BEACH (1959): tearful drunk Moira DAVidson
(AVa Gardner) watches Submarine depart
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Rhine Sagas, as they have been told in Germany *throughout history* :
http://www.operastars.com/saga1.htm
Lohengrin, The SVVAN Knight of Kleve
<<As he spoke these words, the SWAN came gliding by, still harnessed to
the golden boat as it was so many years ago. It barely touched the bank
and Lohengrin was already inside. As the SWAN and the boat moved off,
Lohengrin did not glace back. Desperately, ELSA followed along the bank,
but she could not catch him. Heart-broken she returned to the castle
and she never again saw Lohengrin, no matter how often she visited the
banks in the vain hope of finding him. Her three sons remained her only
friends. They developed great chivalrous virtues, and they passed on
their strength and wisdom to many a later generation. They all bore
the SWAN in their coat of arms, and proudly called themselves
"the SWAN Knights of Kleve".
-----------------------------------------------------------------
_What Time Is the Next SWAN?_
Walter Slezak's 1962 autobiography
Walter Slezak as WILLY
Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944) by
Steinbeck
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With MALUS (L. MAST) toward none
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The office of Nautonnier or
NAVigator, is symbolized by the boat
of Isis. "Isis holds in her right hand a small sailing ship with the
SPINDLE of a spinning wheel for its MAST. From the top of the MAST
projects a water jug, its handle shaped like a serpent swelled
with venom. This indicates that Isis steers the bark of life,
of Isis. "Isis holds in her right hand a small sailing ship with the
SPINDLE of a spinning wheel for its MAST. From the top of the MAST
projects a water jug, its handle shaped like a serpent swelled
with venom. This indicates that Isis steers the bark of life,
full of troubles and miseries, on the
stormy ocean of Time.
The SPINDLE symbolizes the fact that she spins and cuts
the thread of life." - Manly P. Hall, Masonic, Hermetic,
Quabbalistic & Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy
http://home.fireplug.net/~rshand/streams/scripts/sion.html
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The SPINDLE symbolizes the fact that she spins and cuts
the thread of life." - Manly P. Hall, Masonic, Hermetic,
Quabbalistic & Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy
http://home.fireplug.net/~rshand/streams/scripts/sion.html
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Mar-LLew the
shoemaker
http://celt.net/Celtic/celtopedia/l.html
<<One day Gwydion took his son to visit his mother Arianrhod. She hated
the children who had exposed her false pretensions, and upbraided
Gwydion for bringing the boy into her sight. 'What is his name?' she
asked. 'Verily,' said Gwydion, 'he has not yet a name.' 'Then I lay this
destiny upon him,' said Arianrhod, 'that he shall never have a name till
one is given him by me.' On this Gwydion went forth in wrath. It must
be remembered that Gwydion is, in the older mythology, the father of
Arianrhod's children. He was resolved to have a name for his son. Next
day he went to the strand below Caer Arianrhod, bringing the boy with
him. Here he sat down by the beach, and in his character of a MASTer
of magic he made himself look like a shoemaker, and the boy like an
apprentice, and he began to make shoes out of sedges and seawood, to
which he gave the semblance of Cordovan leather. Word was brought to
Arianrhod of the wonderful shoes that were being made by a strange
cobbler, and a couple of times she sent her measures for a pair. But
Gwydion either made them too big or too small, so that she eventually
had to show up herself to be fitted. While this was going on, a wren
came and lit on the boat's MAST, and the boy, taking up a bow,
http://celt.net/Celtic/celtopedia/l.html
<<One day Gwydion took his son to visit his mother Arianrhod. She hated
the children who had exposed her false pretensions, and upbraided
Gwydion for bringing the boy into her sight. 'What is his name?' she
asked. 'Verily,' said Gwydion, 'he has not yet a name.' 'Then I lay this
destiny upon him,' said Arianrhod, 'that he shall never have a name till
one is given him by me.' On this Gwydion went forth in wrath. It must
be remembered that Gwydion is, in the older mythology, the father of
Arianrhod's children. He was resolved to have a name for his son. Next
day he went to the strand below Caer Arianrhod, bringing the boy with
him. Here he sat down by the beach, and in his character of a MASTer
of magic he made himself look like a shoemaker, and the boy like an
apprentice, and he began to make shoes out of sedges and seawood, to
which he gave the semblance of Cordovan leather. Word was brought to
Arianrhod of the wonderful shoes that were being made by a strange
cobbler, and a couple of times she sent her measures for a pair. But
Gwydion either made them too big or too small, so that she eventually
had to show up herself to be fitted. While this was going on, a wren
came and lit on the boat's MAST, and the boy, taking up a bow,
shot an arrow that transfixed the leg
between the sinew and the
bone. Arianrhod admired the
brilliant shot. 'Verily,' she said,
'with a steady hand (llaw gyffes) did the lion (LLew) hit it.'
'No thanks to thee,' cried Gwydion, 'now he has got a name.
LLew Llaw Gyffes shall he be called henceforward.'
'with a steady hand (llaw gyffes) did the lion (LLew) hit it.'
'No thanks to thee,' cried Gwydion, 'now he has got a name.
LLew Llaw Gyffes shall he be called henceforward.'
------------------------------------------------------------
ACTS 27:16 And running under a certain island which
is called CLAUDA, we had much work to come by the boat:
CLAUDA = "LAME" a small island nearly due west
of Cape Malta on the south coast of Crete,
and nearly due south of Phoenice
--------------------------------------------------------
<<...now do I meane to present [Harvey] and Shakerley
to the Queens foole-taker for coatch-horses>>
-- THOMAS NASH (the "second Shakerley") in dedicatory
ACTS 27:16 And running under a certain island which
is called CLAUDA, we had much work to come by the boat:
CLAUDA = "LAME" a small island nearly due west
of Cape Malta on the south coast of Crete,
and nearly due south of Phoenice
--------------------------------------------------------
<<...now do I meane to present [Harvey] and Shakerley
to the Queens foole-taker for coatch-horses>>
-- THOMAS NASH (the "second Shakerley") in dedicatory
epistle
to 'MASTer APIS LAPIS ' in _Strange
News_
------------------------------------------------------------------------
<<Whenever a town was founded a round hole would first be dug. In
the bottom of it a stone, LAPIS manalis, which represented a gate
to the Underworld, would then be embedded. On the 23rd of August,
this stone would be removed to permit the MANes to pass through.>>
August 23, 1600, Shakespeare's Name 1st appears in Stationer's Register
when Andrew Wyse enters "II Henry IV" and "Much Ado About Nothing".
II Henry IV Act 4, Scene 1
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK To Scotland: and concludes in hearty prayers
That your attempts may OVERLIVE the HAZARD
-------------------------------------------------------------------
"OliVER HAZARD Perry"
b. South Kingstown, RI, August 23, 1785
d. Orinoco River, Venezuela, August 23, 1819
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Julius Caesar Act 5, Scene 1
CASSIUS Why, now, blow wind, swell billow and swim bark!
THE STORM IS UP, and ALL IS ON the HAZARD.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.brigniagara.org/perry.htm
http://www.redwoodlibrary.org/notables/oh_perry.htm
<<OliVER HAZARD Perry was born on August 23, 1785, at the Old Perry
Homestead in South Kingston, Rhode Island, of "Fighting QUAKER parents."
His father was in the United States Navy and young Perry soon followed.
At the age of 13, Perry entered the Navy as a midshipman, where his
first assignment was in the Caribbean under the command of his father
aboard the sloop-of-war, GENERAL GREENE.
Perry's subsequent voyages took him to Europe and Africa during the
Barbary Wars. In 1805, at the age of 20, Perry became a lieutenant
and was given the command of a small schooner. Next, he was called to
oversee the construction of a number of gunboats ordered by President
Thomas Jefferson. When this job was successfully completed, Perry
was given the command of the 14-gun vessel REVENGE and cruised the
northern- and mid-Atlantic waters of the Eastern United States.>>
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King Henry VI, Part i Act 4, Scene 6
TALBOT: Fly, to REVENGE my death when I am dead:
The help of one stands me in little stead.
O, too much folly is it, well I wot,
To HAZARD ALL OUR LIVES in one small boat!
-----------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.hope-of-israel.org/pdf/i000111b.pdf
<<Caesar Baronius, the church historian who was also appointed librarian
of the Vatican in 1596, wrote in his magnum opus, Annales Ecclesiastici,
of the finding in the Vatican Library of a most ancient manuscript in
which was described the voyage of a company of our Lord's friends,
travelling in an OLD BOAT which HAD BEEN ABANDONED BY ITS MASTER
and was WITHOUT OARS OR SAILS,
who LANDED AT MARSEILLES, whence they spread out over SOUTHERN
FRANCE where many churches record them as their founders.
Among this company is JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA.
-- Covenant Books, London. 1969. P.15.
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http://www.goddessmyths.com/Amaterasu-Epona.html
The image of the BLACK MADONNA, who is said to
have miraculous powers, can be traced back
through the ages to Africa, Asia and the Middle
East in the form of Isis, Tara, Sara-Kali and other
dark Goddesses. They represented the fertile Earth
as well as the great void. As Sara-Kali, she is
worshipped by the gypsies and is said to have
accompanied MARY MAGDALENE, two elderly Marys,
Martha and Lazarus on a BOAT WITHOUT OARS OR SAILS
that landed at Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France in 43 CE.
------------------------------------------------------------------
"[OAR]MAR. MAGDALENE"
"[ORA]NGE MARMALADE"
Pig on an Accordion: Oxford's _Hamlet_
one Jar of ORANGE MARMALADE: Rosicrucians/Rosencrantz
other Jar of ORANGE MARMALADE: Freemasons/Guildensterne
------------------------------------------------------------------------
<<Whenever a town was founded a round hole would first be dug. In
the bottom of it a stone, LAPIS manalis, which represented a gate
to the Underworld, would then be embedded. On the 23rd of August,
this stone would be removed to permit the MANes to pass through.>>
August 23, 1600, Shakespeare's Name 1st appears in Stationer's Register
when Andrew Wyse enters "II Henry IV" and "Much Ado About Nothing".
II Henry IV Act 4, Scene 1
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK To Scotland: and concludes in hearty prayers
That your attempts may OVERLIVE the HAZARD
-------------------------------------------------------------------
"OliVER HAZARD Perry"
b. South Kingstown, RI, August 23, 1785
d. Orinoco River, Venezuela, August 23, 1819
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Julius Caesar Act 5, Scene 1
CASSIUS Why, now, blow wind, swell billow and swim bark!
THE STORM IS UP, and ALL IS ON the HAZARD.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.brigniagara.org/perry.htm
http://www.redwoodlibrary.org/notables/oh_perry.htm
<<OliVER HAZARD Perry was born on August 23, 1785, at the Old Perry
Homestead in South Kingston, Rhode Island, of "Fighting QUAKER parents."
His father was in the United States Navy and young Perry soon followed.
At the age of 13, Perry entered the Navy as a midshipman, where his
first assignment was in the Caribbean under the command of his father
aboard the sloop-of-war, GENERAL GREENE.
Perry's subsequent voyages took him to Europe and Africa during the
Barbary Wars. In 1805, at the age of 20, Perry became a lieutenant
and was given the command of a small schooner. Next, he was called to
oversee the construction of a number of gunboats ordered by President
Thomas Jefferson. When this job was successfully completed, Perry
was given the command of the 14-gun vessel REVENGE and cruised the
northern- and mid-Atlantic waters of the Eastern United States.>>
-------------------------------------------------------------------
King Henry VI, Part i Act 4, Scene 6
TALBOT: Fly, to REVENGE my death when I am dead:
The help of one stands me in little stead.
O, too much folly is it, well I wot,
To HAZARD ALL OUR LIVES in one small boat!
-----------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.hope-of-israel.org/pdf/i000111b.pdf
<<Caesar Baronius, the church historian who was also appointed librarian
of the Vatican in 1596, wrote in his magnum opus, Annales Ecclesiastici,
of the finding in the Vatican Library of a most ancient manuscript in
which was described the voyage of a company of our Lord's friends,
travelling in an OLD BOAT which HAD BEEN ABANDONED BY ITS MASTER
and was WITHOUT OARS OR SAILS,
who LANDED AT MARSEILLES, whence they spread out over SOUTHERN
FRANCE where many churches record them as their founders.
Among this company is JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA.
-- Covenant Books, London. 1969. P.15.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.goddessmyths.com/Amaterasu-Epona.html
The image of the BLACK MADONNA, who is said to
have miraculous powers, can be traced back
through the ages to Africa, Asia and the Middle
East in the form of Isis, Tara, Sara-Kali and other
dark Goddesses. They represented the fertile Earth
as well as the great void. As Sara-Kali, she is
worshipped by the gypsies and is said to have
accompanied MARY MAGDALENE, two elderly Marys,
Martha and Lazarus on a BOAT WITHOUT OARS OR SAILS
that landed at Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France in 43 CE.
------------------------------------------------------------------
"[OAR]MAR. MAGDALENE"
"[ORA]NGE MARMALADE"
Pig on an Accordion: Oxford's _Hamlet_
one Jar of ORANGE MARMALADE: Rosicrucians/Rosencrantz
other Jar of ORANGE MARMALADE: Freemasons/Guildensterne
--------------------------------------------------------------
Stephen Crane's short
story,
'The Open Boat,' is based on a true
experience, when his ship,
a coal-burning tug heavy with
ammunition and machetes, sank on the
journey to Cuba in 1896. With a small party of other passengers,
journey to Cuba in 1896. With a small party of other passengers,
Crane spent several days drifting
in an open boat before
being rescued.
This experience impaired his
health
permanently.
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Romance of YACHTing
---------------------------------------------------------------
YACHT, n. [D. jagt, jacht; OHG. g[=a]hi QUICK, sudden]
{anagram}
"BEDLAM YACHT"
"LADY MACBETH"
--------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/baym/essays/delia_bacon.htm
<<[The first person to argue in print against Shakespeare's authorship
of the plays] seems to have been a [New York lawyer], Colonel Joseph
C. Hart, who claimed in his Romance of YACHTing: Voyage the First
(New York: Harper & Bros., 1848) that the plays were collaboratively
authored by diverse hands, the best parts written by Ben Jonson and the
stage-manager Shakespeare's occasional contributions identifiable by
their vulgarity. Shakespeare 'purchased or obtained surreptitiously'
other men's plays which he then 'spiced with obscenity,
blackguardism and impurities'.>>
"What the DEUCE does it mean?" - Herman Melville review
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.winshop.com.au/annew/ArgoNavis.html
<<Argo Navis is a symbolic archetype of a great ship, which
crosses the waters of the Deluge as in the Biblical tale of Noah's
Arc. It lies in the southern hemisphere, east of Canis Major, south
of Monoceros & Hydra, largely in the Milky Way. It covers a great extent
of the sky; nearly 75 degrees in length, teeming with masses of stars.
Consequently, astronomers have divided Argo Navis into three smaller
constellations; - Puppis, the Stern; Carina, the Keel; and Vela, Sail.
MALUS, the MAST, was a 4th constellation created of Argo Navis,
but this has fallen into disuse. This constellation is still
recognized by many astronomers as Argo Navis.
In ancient Egypt it was seen as the boat which carried Isis & Osiris over
the deluge. And the Hindus said that it performed the same function
for Isi & Iswara, they called it the ship Argha, similar to
the Greek title. Others say that the word Argo comes
from the Semitic word arek meaning 'long'.
The Babylonian Epic of Creation relates how the gods decided to
destroy the earth with a flood. The god Ea took pity on humanity and
secretly warned a mortal named Uto-Napishtim of the forthcoming
disaster.
The man set about building a boat 120 cubits high to carry his family,
possessions and sundry animals & birds. After the flood subsided,
Uto-Napishtim and his passengers were the only survivors.
Another Greek tradition according to Eratosthenes, asserted that
Argo Navis represented the first ship to sail the ocean which
carried Danoes & his 50 daughters from Egypt to Rhodes.
The Ship appears to have no bow, this loss of its bow is said to have
occurred when Argo passed "Through Bosphorus betwixt the jostling rocks"
-
the Symplegades, yet it has often been, as in The Alfonsine Tables,
illustrated and described by artists & authors, as
a complete double-MASTed vessel with oars, and Lubienitzki,
in the Theatrurn Comelicum of 1667, as a three-MASTed argosy
with a tier of ports and all sails set full to the wind.
It has been known since classical times, the great ship of the Argonauts,
built by Glaucus for Jason, leader of the 50 Argonauts, whose number
equaled that of the oars of ship. Aided by Pallas/Athene/Minerva, who
herself set in the prow a piece from The Speaking Oak of Dodona; the Argo
being "thus endowed with the power of warning & guiding the chieftains who
form its crew", she carried the famous expedition from Colchis in Thessaly
to Aea in Colchis (Colchia was the district along the eastern shore of the
Euxine Sea, now Mingrelia) in search of the Golden Fleece, and when the
voyage was over, Athene placed the boat in the sky. The story of how
Jason, with the help of the 50 Argonauts and the sorceress, Medea,
who sailed in Argo Navis to win the Golden Fleece,
is one of the most famous of the old Greek myths.>>
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http://killdevilhill.com/romanticschat/messages2/501.html
Posted by Laon on April 26, 1999 at 00:45:31:
"Alastor" makes interesting reading after "Kubla Khan". Here the "Poet",
Shelley's character, gets on a boat, hangs up his cloak on the MAST, and
lets it ride wherever it will go. He starts on the ocean, but soon is
swept into a craggy shore, where the boat narrowly misses being swamped
or crushed by waves, or drowened in a whirlpool, and instead washes
through at high speed into a long, winding underground cavern.
Measureless to man, you might almost say. Re-reading the section, lines
370 - 403, in which the boat goes uphill, I see that I slandered
Shelley, who does provide a rational explanation. His boat gets caught
in a huge underground whirlpool: "Stair after stair the eddying waters
rose, Circling immeasurably fast".
Funny to find "immeasurably" in the context of an underground cavern
through which a river flows - though Shelley's would seem to be a
salt-water river. Shelley wrote "Alastor" in 1815, and Coleridge
published "Kubla Khan" in 1816. Shelley could have heard Byron recite
"Kubla Khan" shortly before it was published, but, again, Shelley didn't
meet Byron till after he'd written "Alastor". No, got it. Shelley stayed
with Coleridge's friend Southey in 1811, and maybe Southey showed
Shelley some unpublished Coleridge.>>
------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------
Romance of YACHTing
---------------------------------------------------------------
YACHT, n. [D. jagt, jacht; OHG. g[=a]hi QUICK, sudden]
{anagram}
"BEDLAM YACHT"
"LADY MACBETH"
--------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/baym/essays/delia_bacon.htm
<<[The first person to argue in print against Shakespeare's authorship
of the plays] seems to have been a [New York lawyer], Colonel Joseph
C. Hart, who claimed in his Romance of YACHTing: Voyage the First
(New York: Harper & Bros., 1848) that the plays were collaboratively
authored by diverse hands, the best parts written by Ben Jonson and the
stage-manager Shakespeare's occasional contributions identifiable by
their vulgarity. Shakespeare 'purchased or obtained surreptitiously'
other men's plays which he then 'spiced with obscenity,
blackguardism and impurities'.>>
"What the DEUCE does it mean?" - Herman Melville review
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.winshop.com.au/annew/ArgoNavis.html
<<Argo Navis is a symbolic archetype of a great ship, which
crosses the waters of the Deluge as in the Biblical tale of Noah's
Arc. It lies in the southern hemisphere, east of Canis Major, south
of Monoceros & Hydra, largely in the Milky Way. It covers a great extent
of the sky; nearly 75 degrees in length, teeming with masses of stars.
Consequently, astronomers have divided Argo Navis into three smaller
constellations; - Puppis, the Stern; Carina, the Keel; and Vela, Sail.
MALUS, the MAST, was a 4th constellation created of Argo Navis,
but this has fallen into disuse. This constellation is still
recognized by many astronomers as Argo Navis.
In ancient Egypt it was seen as the boat which carried Isis & Osiris over
the deluge. And the Hindus said that it performed the same function
for Isi & Iswara, they called it the ship Argha, similar to
the Greek title. Others say that the word Argo comes
from the Semitic word arek meaning 'long'.
The Babylonian Epic of Creation relates how the gods decided to
destroy the earth with a flood. The god Ea took pity on humanity and
secretly warned a mortal named Uto-Napishtim of the forthcoming
disaster.
The man set about building a boat 120 cubits high to carry his family,
possessions and sundry animals & birds. After the flood subsided,
Uto-Napishtim and his passengers were the only survivors.
Another Greek tradition according to Eratosthenes, asserted that
Argo Navis represented the first ship to sail the ocean which
carried Danoes & his 50 daughters from Egypt to Rhodes.
The Ship appears to have no bow, this loss of its bow is said to have
occurred when Argo passed "Through Bosphorus betwixt the jostling rocks"
-
the Symplegades, yet it has often been, as in The Alfonsine Tables,
illustrated and described by artists & authors, as
a complete double-MASTed vessel with oars, and Lubienitzki,
in the Theatrurn Comelicum of 1667, as a three-MASTed argosy
with a tier of ports and all sails set full to the wind.
It has been known since classical times, the great ship of the Argonauts,
built by Glaucus for Jason, leader of the 50 Argonauts, whose number
equaled that of the oars of ship. Aided by Pallas/Athene/Minerva, who
herself set in the prow a piece from The Speaking Oak of Dodona; the Argo
being "thus endowed with the power of warning & guiding the chieftains who
form its crew", she carried the famous expedition from Colchis in Thessaly
to Aea in Colchis (Colchia was the district along the eastern shore of the
Euxine Sea, now Mingrelia) in search of the Golden Fleece, and when the
voyage was over, Athene placed the boat in the sky. The story of how
Jason, with the help of the 50 Argonauts and the sorceress, Medea,
who sailed in Argo Navis to win the Golden Fleece,
is one of the most famous of the old Greek myths.>>
-------------------------------------------------------------------
http://killdevilhill.com/romanticschat/messages2/501.html
Posted by Laon on April 26, 1999 at 00:45:31:
"Alastor" makes interesting reading after "Kubla Khan". Here the "Poet",
Shelley's character, gets on a boat, hangs up his cloak on the MAST, and
lets it ride wherever it will go. He starts on the ocean, but soon is
swept into a craggy shore, where the boat narrowly misses being swamped
or crushed by waves, or drowened in a whirlpool, and instead washes
through at high speed into a long, winding underground cavern.
Measureless to man, you might almost say. Re-reading the section, lines
370 - 403, in which the boat goes uphill, I see that I slandered
Shelley, who does provide a rational explanation. His boat gets caught
in a huge underground whirlpool: "Stair after stair the eddying waters
rose, Circling immeasurably fast".
Funny to find "immeasurably" in the context of an underground cavern
through which a river flows - though Shelley's would seem to be a
salt-water river. Shelley wrote "Alastor" in 1815, and Coleridge
published "Kubla Khan" in 1816. Shelley could have heard Byron recite
"Kubla Khan" shortly before it was published, but, again, Shelley didn't
meet Byron till after he'd written "Alastor". No, got it. Shelley stayed
with Coleridge's friend Southey in 1811, and maybe Southey showed
Shelley some unpublished Coleridge.>>
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http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/walking_water.htm
<<[Jesus] was the eschatological battle against the cosmic enemy, the chaos
monster characterized by the sea.
John 6:14-21 (from The Message Translation)
The people realized that God was at work among them in what Jesus had
just done. They said, "This is the Prophet for sure, God's Prophet right
here in Galilee!" Jesus saw that in their enthusiasm, they were about to
grab him and make him king, so he slipped off and went back up the mountain
to be by himself.
In the evening his disciples went down to the sea, got in the boat, and
headed back across the water to Capernaum. It had grown quite dark and Jesus
had not yet returned. A huge wind blew up, churning the sea. They were maybe
three or four miles out when they saw Jesus walking on the sea, quite near
the boat. They were scared senseless, but he reassured them, "It's me. It's
all right. Don't be afraid." So they took him on board. In no time they
reached land on the exact spot they were headed to.
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Impossible to remember persons in improbable to forget position places.
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French Revolution - Thomas Carlyle ** ( Chapter 1.7.XI. )
Thus, like frail cockle, floats the Royal Life-boat,
helmless, on black deluges of Rascality. Mercier,
in his loose way, estimates the Procession and assistants at two
hundred thousand. He says it was one boundless inarticulate HAHA; --
transcendent World-Laughter; comparable to the Saturnalia of the
Ancients.
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Why not? He Antilles. If ye find him, then comfort him;
for he must be very sad; for look! he's left his tambourine behind;- I
found it. Rig-a-dig, dig, dig! Now, Queequeg, die; and I'll beat ye
your dying march."
"I have heard," murmured Starbuck, gazing down the scuttle, "that in
violent fevers, MEN, ALL IGNORANT, HAVE TALKED IN ANCIENT TONGUES;
and that when the mystery is probed, it turns out always that in their
wholly forgotten childhood those ancient tongues had been really
spoken in their hearing by some lofty scholars. So, to my fond
faith, poor Pip, in this strange sweetness of his lunacy, brings
heavenly vouchers of all our heavenly homes. Where learned he that,
but there?- Hark! he speaks again; but more wildly now."
"Form two and two! Let's make a General of him! Ho, where's his
harpoon? Lay it across here.- Rig-a-dig, dig, dig! huzza! Oh for a
game cock now to sit upon his head and crow! Queequeg dies game!- mind
ye that; Queequeg dies game!- take ye good heed of that; Queequeg dies
game! I say; game, game, game! but base little Pip, he died a
coward; died all a'shiver;- out upon Pip! Hark ye; if ye find Pip,
tell all the Antilles he's a runaway; a coward, a coward, a coward!
Tell them he jumped from a whale-boat! I'd never beat my tambourine
over base Pip, and hail him General, if he were once more dying
here. No, no! shame upon all cowards- shame upon them! Let'em go
drown like Pip, that jumped from a whale-boat. Shame! shame!"
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Why not? He Antilles. If ye find him, then comfort him;
for he must be very sad; for look! he's left his tambourine behind;- I
found it. Rig-a-dig, dig, dig! Now, Queequeg, die; and I'll beat ye
your dying march."
"I have heard," murmured Starbuck, gazing down the scuttle, "that in
violent fevers, MEN, ALL IGNORANT, HAVE TALKED IN ANCIENT TONGUES;
and that when the mystery is probed, it turns out always that in their
wholly forgotten childhood those ancient tongues had been really
spoken in their hearing by some lofty scholars. So, to my fond
faith, poor Pip, in this strange sweetness of his lunacy, brings
heavenly vouchers of all our heavenly homes. Where learned he that,
but there?- Hark! he speaks again; but more wildly now."
"Form two and two! Let's make a General of him! Ho, where's his
harpoon? Lay it across here.- Rig-a-dig, dig, dig! huzza! Oh for a
game cock now to sit upon his head and crow! Queequeg dies game!- mind
ye that; Queequeg dies game!- take ye good heed of that; Queequeg dies
game! I say; game, game, game! but base little Pip, he died a
coward; died all a'shiver;- out upon Pip! Hark ye; if ye find Pip,
tell all the Antilles he's a runaway; a coward, a coward, a coward!
Tell them he jumped from a whale-boat! I'd never beat my tambourine
over base Pip, and hail him General, if he were once more dying
here. No, no! shame upon all cowards- shame upon them! Let'em go
drown like Pip, that jumped from a whale-boat. Shame! shame!"
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Ben Jonson on Virgil in Poetaster
(1601)
His learning labours not the
schoole-like glosse,
That most consists in ecchoing words,
and termes,
And soonest wins a man an empty
name:
Nor any long, or far-fetcht
circumstance,
Wrapt in the curious generalties of
artes.
But a direct,a nd analyticke
summe
Of all the worth and first effects of
artes.
And for his poesie, 'tis so ramm'd with
life,
That it shall gather strength of life,
with being,
And live hereafter, more admir'd, then
now,
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Twenty Years After - Dumas
<<Athos followed him before the felucca rose again on the
waves; the cable which tied the boat to the vessel was then
seen plainly rising out of the sea.
D'Artagnan swam to it and held it, suspending himself by
this rope, his head alone out of water.
In one second Athos joined him.
Then they saw, as the felucca turned, two other heads
peeping, those of Aramis and Grimaud.
"I am uneasy about Blaisois," said Athos; "he can, he says,
only swim in rivers."
"When people can swim at all they can swim anywhere. To the
boat! to the boat!"
"But Porthos, I do not see him."
"Porthos is coming -- he swims like Leviathan."
Musqueton looked upon himself as dead.
But Porthos was not a man to abandon an old servant,
and when Musqueton rose above the water, blind as a
new-born puppy, he found he was supported by the large hand
of Porthos and that he was thus enabled, without having
occasion even to move, to advance toward the cable with the
dignity of a very triton.
In a few minutes Porthos had rejoined his companions, who
were already in the boat; but when, after they had all got
in, it came to his turn, there was great danger that in
putting his huge leg over the edge of the boat he would
upset the little vessel. Athos was the last to enter.
"Are you all here?" he asked.
"Ah! have you your sword, Athos?" cried D'Artagnan.
"Yes."
"Cut the cable, then."
"Haul up the cable and draw the boat to us," said Groslow.
One of the sailors got down the side of the ship, seized the
cable, and drew it; it came without the least resistance.
"The cable is cut!" he cried, "no boat!"
"How! no boat!" exclaimed Groslow; "it is impossible."
"'Tis true, however," answered the sailor; "there's nothing
in the wake of the ship; besides, here's the end of the
cable.">>
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Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dicken
<<As they glided slowly on, keeping under the shore and sneaking in
and out among the shipping by back-alleys of water, in a pilfering
way that seemed to be their boatman's normal manner of
progression, all the objects among which they crept were so huge
in contrast with their wretched boat, as to threaten to crush it. Not
a ship's hull, with its rusty iron links of cable run out of hawse-
holes long discoloured with the iron's rusty tears, but seemed to be
there with a fell intention. Not a figure-head but had the menacing
look of bursting forward to run them down. Not a sluice gate, or a
painted scale upon a post or wall, showing the depth of water, but
seemed to hint, like the dreadfully facetious Wolf in bed in
Grandmamma's cottage, 'That's to drown YOU in, my dears!'>>
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Twenty Years After - Dumas
<<Athos followed him before the felucca rose again on the
waves; the cable which tied the boat to the vessel was then
seen plainly rising out of the sea.
D'Artagnan swam to it and held it, suspending himself by
this rope, his head alone out of water.
In one second Athos joined him.
Then they saw, as the felucca turned, two other heads
peeping, those of Aramis and Grimaud.
"I am uneasy about Blaisois," said Athos; "he can, he says,
only swim in rivers."
"When people can swim at all they can swim anywhere. To the
boat! to the boat!"
"But Porthos, I do not see him."
"Porthos is coming -- he swims like Leviathan."
Musqueton looked upon himself as dead.
But Porthos was not a man to abandon an old servant,
and when Musqueton rose above the water, blind as a
new-born puppy, he found he was supported by the large hand
of Porthos and that he was thus enabled, without having
occasion even to move, to advance toward the cable with the
dignity of a very triton.
In a few minutes Porthos had rejoined his companions, who
were already in the boat; but when, after they had all got
in, it came to his turn, there was great danger that in
putting his huge leg over the edge of the boat he would
upset the little vessel. Athos was the last to enter.
"Are you all here?" he asked.
"Ah! have you your sword, Athos?" cried D'Artagnan.
"Yes."
"Cut the cable, then."
"Haul up the cable and draw the boat to us," said Groslow.
One of the sailors got down the side of the ship, seized the
cable, and drew it; it came without the least resistance.
"The cable is cut!" he cried, "no boat!"
"How! no boat!" exclaimed Groslow; "it is impossible."
"'Tis true, however," answered the sailor; "there's nothing
in the wake of the ship; besides, here's the end of the
cable.">>
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Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dicken
<<As they glided slowly on, keeping under the shore and sneaking in
and out among the shipping by back-alleys of water, in a pilfering
way that seemed to be their boatman's normal manner of
progression, all the objects among which they crept were so huge
in contrast with their wretched boat, as to threaten to crush it. Not
a ship's hull, with its rusty iron links of cable run out of hawse-
holes long discoloured with the iron's rusty tears, but seemed to be
there with a fell intention. Not a figure-head but had the menacing
look of bursting forward to run them down. Not a sluice gate, or a
painted scale upon a post or wall, showing the depth of water, but
seemed to hint, like the dreadfully facetious Wolf in bed in
Grandmamma's cottage, 'That's to drown YOU in, my dears!'>>
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_The Discovery of Guiana_, 1595
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1595raleigh-guiana.html
<<To conclude, Guiana is a country that hath yet her maidenhead, never
sacked, turned, nor wrought; the face of the earth hath not been torn,
nor the virtue and salt of the soil spent by manurance. The graves have
not been opened for gold, the mines not broken with sledges, nor their
images pulled down out of their temples. It hath never been entered by
any army of strength, and never conquered or possessed by any Christian
prince. It is besides so defensible, that if two forts be builded in one
of the provinces which I have seen, the flood setteth in so near the
bank, where the channel also lieth, that no ship can pass up but within
a pike's length of the artillery, first of the one, and afterwards of
the other. Which two forts will be a sufficient guard both to the empire
of Inga, and to an hundred other several kingdoms, lying within the said
river, even to the city of Quito n Peru. There is therefore great
difference between the easiness of the conquest of Guiana, and the
defence of it being conquered, and the West or East Indies. Guiana hath
but one entrance by the sea, if it hath that, for any vessels of burden.
So as whosoever shall first possess it, it shall be found unaccessible
for any enemy, except he come in wherries, barges, or canoas, or else
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1595raleigh-guiana.html
<<To conclude, Guiana is a country that hath yet her maidenhead, never
sacked, turned, nor wrought; the face of the earth hath not been torn,
nor the virtue and salt of the soil spent by manurance. The graves have
not been opened for gold, the mines not broken with sledges, nor their
images pulled down out of their temples. It hath never been entered by
any army of strength, and never conquered or possessed by any Christian
prince. It is besides so defensible, that if two forts be builded in one
of the provinces which I have seen, the flood setteth in so near the
bank, where the channel also lieth, that no ship can pass up but within
a pike's length of the artillery, first of the one, and afterwards of
the other. Which two forts will be a sufficient guard both to the empire
of Inga, and to an hundred other several kingdoms, lying within the said
river, even to the city of Quito n Peru. There is therefore great
difference between the easiness of the conquest of Guiana, and the
defence of it being conquered, and the West or East Indies. Guiana hath
but one entrance by the sea, if it hath that, for any vessels of burden.
So as whosoever shall first possess it, it shall be found unaccessible
for any enemy, except he come in wherries, barges, or canoas, or else
in flat-bottomed boats; and if he do
offer to enter it in that manner, the
woods are so thick 200 miles together upon the rivers of such entrance,
as A MOUSE CANNOT SIT IN A BOAT UNHIT FROM THE BANK.>>
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June 17, 1862 = 42 + June 17, 1904 (end date in Ulysses )
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http://www.student.kun.nl/l.derooy/index.html?alice5.html
<< The Liddell sisters are present in the Alice books too. At the end
of the second chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland it says:
"There was a Duck, and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet". The Duck is Canon
Duckworth, the friend that went with them on the boat trip,
Lorina is the Lorry and Edith the Eaglet. Dodo was
Charles Dodgson, who had a slight stutter which made him
sometimes give his name as 'Do-do-Dodgson'.
"They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank"
(chapter 3) The individuals in this party represent the participants in
an episode entered in Carrol's diary on June 17, 1862. Carroll took his
sisters, Fanny and Elizabeth, and his Aunt Lucy Lutwidge (the 'other
curious creatures') on a boating expedition, along with Reverend
Duckworth and the three Liddell girls.
This is what Carroll wrote in his diary:
"June 17 (Tu). Expedition to Nuneham. Duckworth (of Trinity) and Ina,
Alice and Edith came with us. We set out about 12.30 and got to Nuneham
about 2: dined there, then walked in the park and set off for home about
4.30. About a mile above Nuneham heavy rain came on, and after bearing
it a short time I settled that we had better leave the boat and walk:
three miles of this drenched us all pretty well. I went on first with
the children, as they could walk much faster than Elizabeth, and took
them to the only house I knew in Sandford, Mrs. Broughton's, where
Ranken lodges. I left them with her to get their clothes dried, and
went
off to find a vehicle, but none was to be had there, so on the others
arriving, Duckworth and I walked on to Iffley,
whence we sent them a fly."
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Carroll took three boat rides in 1862 with the three Liddell girls:
1) June 17 - downriver to Nuneham in the rain.
2) July 4 - upriver to Godstow in the sun (maybe ?)
3) August 6 [Transfiguration]- upriver to Godstow in the sun.
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Godstow Transfiguration on The Ural Mountains
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<<August 6 => Feast of the Transfiguration, marking Jesus' going up on
Mount Tabor and being seen in great radiance by Sts Peter and John,
in the presence of the prophets Elijah and Moses.>>
http://www.nortexinfo.net/McDaniel/0806.htm
On August 6, 1862, Dodgson wrote in his diary:
<<In the afternoon Harcourt and I took the three Liddells up to Godstow,
where we had tea; we tried the game of "The Ural Mountains" on the way,
but it did not prove very successful, and I had to go on with my
interminable fairy-tale of Alice's Adventures . We got back soon
after eight, and had supper in my rooms, the children coming over for
a short while. A very enjoyable expedition-the last, I should think,
to which Ina is likely to be allowed to come-her 14th time.>>
woods are so thick 200 miles together upon the rivers of such entrance,
as A MOUSE CANNOT SIT IN A BOAT UNHIT FROM THE BANK.>>
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June 17, 1862 = 42 + June 17, 1904 (end date in Ulysses )
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http://www.student.kun.nl/l.derooy/index.html?alice5.html
<< The Liddell sisters are present in the Alice books too. At the end
of the second chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland it says:
"There was a Duck, and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet". The Duck is Canon
Duckworth, the friend that went with them on the boat trip,
Lorina is the Lorry and Edith the Eaglet. Dodo was
Charles Dodgson, who had a slight stutter which made him
sometimes give his name as 'Do-do-Dodgson'.
"They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank"
(chapter 3) The individuals in this party represent the participants in
an episode entered in Carrol's diary on June 17, 1862. Carroll took his
sisters, Fanny and Elizabeth, and his Aunt Lucy Lutwidge (the 'other
curious creatures') on a boating expedition, along with Reverend
Duckworth and the three Liddell girls.
This is what Carroll wrote in his diary:
"June 17 (Tu). Expedition to Nuneham. Duckworth (of Trinity) and Ina,
Alice and Edith came with us. We set out about 12.30 and got to Nuneham
about 2: dined there, then walked in the park and set off for home about
4.30. About a mile above Nuneham heavy rain came on, and after bearing
it a short time I settled that we had better leave the boat and walk:
three miles of this drenched us all pretty well. I went on first with
the children, as they could walk much faster than Elizabeth, and took
them to the only house I knew in Sandford, Mrs. Broughton's, where
Ranken lodges. I left them with her to get their clothes dried, and
went
off to find a vehicle, but none was to be had there, so on the others
arriving, Duckworth and I walked on to Iffley,
whence we sent them a fly."
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Carroll took three boat rides in 1862 with the three Liddell girls:
1) June 17 - downriver to Nuneham in the rain.
2) July 4 - upriver to Godstow in the sun (maybe ?)
3) August 6 [Transfiguration]- upriver to Godstow in the sun.
-------------------------------------------------------------
Godstow Transfiguration on The Ural Mountains
-------------------------------------------------------------
<<August 6 => Feast of the Transfiguration, marking Jesus' going up on
Mount Tabor and being seen in great radiance by Sts Peter and John,
in the presence of the prophets Elijah and Moses.>>
http://www.nortexinfo.net/McDaniel/0806.htm
On August 6, 1862, Dodgson wrote in his diary:
<<In the afternoon Harcourt and I took the three Liddells up to Godstow,
where we had tea; we tried the game of "The Ural Mountains" on the way,
but it did not prove very successful, and I had to go on with my
interminable fairy-tale of Alice's Adventures . We got back soon
after eight, and had supper in my rooms, the children coming over for
a short while. A very enjoyable expedition-the last, I should think,
to which Ina is likely to be allowed to come-her 14th time.>>
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Carroll's "Alice on the Stage,"
The Theatre, April 1887:
Stand forth, then, from the
shadowy past, "Alice," the child of
my dreams. Full many a year has slipped away, since that
"golden afternoon" that gave thee birth, but I can call it up
almost as clearly as if it were yesterday — the cloudless blue
above, the watery mirror below, the boat drifting idly on its
way, the tinkle of the drops that fell from the oars, as they
waved so sleepily to and fro, and (the one bright gleam of life
in all the slumberous scene) the three eager faces, hungry for
news of fairy-land, and who would not be said "nay" to:
my dreams. Full many a year has slipped away, since that
"golden afternoon" that gave thee birth, but I can call it up
almost as clearly as if it were yesterday — the cloudless blue
above, the watery mirror below, the boat drifting idly on its
way, the tinkle of the drops that fell from the oars, as they
waved so sleepily to and fro, and (the one bright gleam of life
in all the slumberous scene) the three eager faces, hungry for
news of fairy-land, and who would not be said "nay" to:
from whose lips "Tell us a story,
please,"
had all the stern immutability of
Fate!
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Art Neuendorffer
Art Neuendorffer
Oct 25, 2004, 7:44:21 PM10/25/04
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http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/walking water.htm
http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/walking water.htm
Ben Jonson on Virgil
in Poetaster (1601)
His learning labours not the
schoole-like glosse,
[T]hat most consists in ecchoing words, and
termes,
[A]nd soonest wins a man an empty
name:
[N]or any long, or far-fetcht
circumstance,
[W]rapt in the curious generalties of
artes.
[B]ut a direct, and analyticke
summe
[O]f all the worth and first effects of
artes.
[A]nd for his poesie, 'tis so ramm'd with
life,
[T]hat it shall gather strength of life, with
being,
[A]nd live hereafter, more admir'd, then
now,
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