“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Mmmn. Working with both the Völsunga saga and the Nibelungenlied Saga and Wagner’s Ring Cycle is proving interesting. I may be a little bit biased (!) but my preferences has always been for the Eddaic Lays. From Finch’s translation of Völsunga : The never-ending story strikes again :o)
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Some things in life are so DISGUSTING that “they” can not be tolerated. EVIDENCE INCOMING. Phuck my reputation. I don’t have one. Alles has been stolen. Enter Stage Right….EVIDENCE
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Wiki : Das Rheingold Wow! I’ve just met Erda from the Ring Cycle. German : Erde English : Earth “Primal earth mother, goddess of earthly wisdom” And : Key figure of the Ring, she appears only twice on stage, but like Freia and Loge, she plays an essential role by interposed music. The first scene where she appears […]
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This is GB/UK’s Prime Minister. Used to love this show. Scripted yes but…….:o) Y’all voted for ‘im. And here he is. P.S. I’ve Never VOTED for anyone of them in my whole life. Never Voted. Don’t-vote-won’t-vote. Smug, dear, me dear………?
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I was very brave this morning. I ventured out to Lincoln for the first time in many months. It’s a half hour drive away but crimbo pressies needed to be bought. Someone, somewhere is spending a Lot of Money on the regeneration of Lincoln. So much being newly built. But at the top of the […]
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In commemoration of my late parents wedding anniversary. 21st Dec. I watched this today. We all laughed so hard the first time it was shown. Classic Comedy Brit Style :o)
Read MoreVery interesting place!!!! From Steve Ronin: The island is first mentioned in chronicles of 421 when people from Padua and Este fled there to escape the barbarian invasions. In the 9th century, the island’s population began to grow, and in the following centuries, its importance grew steadily, until it was governed by a dedicated Podestà. […]
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Written by Allegra Printz : “The Ring (Wagner’s opera and the ancient stories) speaks to such current experiences as the need for the old order – “ancient fires” – of the Piscean Age to recognise and yield to the incoming qualities of the Aquarian Age in an energetic transition due to the precession of the […]
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Oh. I may’ve got sidetracked somewhere today. Back to me, me, me. I’ve reached the Synopsis.v Do not get me on that subject. Writing a synopsis Hurts one’s brain! Anyhoos Plot Synopsis of the four part Ring of the Nibelung Prologue. What? Get on with the juice!! Oh, The Rhinegold. Or Rheingold, Or…. Scene One […]
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Mac- eye in Scottish – was in the Eric and Ernie film posted earlier. But is best remembered for his wonderful role in Porridge. Fulton MacKay P.S. He was also in Lovejoy. Death and Venice! Crap. It’s dense round here :o(
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I was such a bad, bad child :o( I used to disappear regularly. Most times I’d spend hours here. On my own. Rolling down the hill. Exploring the old building. L-ingMAO. Free and easy and happy AF. It was a short walk from our back garden. Then. Dah duh dah, Parental Control kicked in. I’d […]
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I have a childhood memory. But I don’t really know if it’s all mixed up with TV. I sort of/kinda remember seeing kilts, Strong Men and cabers in realsies life somewheres.
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