“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.”
Sorry. Not :o) Agincourt is well-known for Welsh Bowmen and MUD. Ku – nig -its in Shining Armour always get stuck in the MUFLOOD (?) Or EVEN BETTER……Innocent Whistle & Wide Eyes :o) P.S. Charles d’Orleans, cousin of the Jehanne d’Arc’s Dauphin and Henry V’s wife, was captured here and taken to England for 20 […]
I’m part of the problem. Friday is/was/always will be Poets Day…Piss Off Early Tomorrow’s Saturday. Saturday is now FLATTERDAY. Sunday is now JONDAY. But….I stake a claim on both Flatterday & JONDAY. Piss Off Early Tomorrow’s Sunday Ken Bran reading Wilf O. What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? — Only the monstrous anger of the […]
OMG. I missed the Tennyson bit? And he is my homie. Bad. Head Hung/Hanged in SHAME :o( From the Guardian Newspaper : We have recently pointed you at a graphic novel about the history of puzzles and at the first novel by Guardian setter Picaroon, each of which remains heavily recommended. Time for a peek at a golden-age […]
Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote the latter. His wife, Mary Shelley, wrote the former. Better known as Frankenstein. A bit of poetry then a bit of a GB goggle. Go away :o) BTW : Ken Bran is a Belfast Boy…FECK ME !
I’m going loopy, methinks. OK. Meknows. Titus Andronicus Act 1 Scene 1 line 136 : The self-same gods that arm’d the Queen of Troy. What the…? What Queen of Troy. The clue is revealed 2 lines later with “Thracian tyrant.” Aha. That’d be Hecuba then. Then I read the annotation at the end of the […]
I’ve been so deep in these plays lately. I’ve always felt that there was not a single human experience/emotion/state that is not covered in this canon of work. The MADNESS/SUPERNATURAL theme vibrates so strongly. Also the total reverence for family, safety of family and the Divine Creator. There are three main Shakespeare voices for me. […]
Henry V Tudor of England married Catherine de Valois…the daughter of Charles VI (MAD) and Isabeau of Bavaria. Sister of Dauphin Charles (Charles VII de Valois) Henry V Tudor. Agincourt. The Capture of Charles d’ Orléans who was the son of Louis d’ Orléans and Valentine Visconti. Louis was also the younger brother of Charles […]
If there is just ONE SINGLE thing that can turn me from a Baconian to an Oxfordian it is THIS… GB 14th March 2019 : Cathars/Starfort/Oxford And Inspector Morse. And Lewis. And AW. AND KEN BRAN x I’ve said before that the authorship of the Shakespeare plays was not important to me. Who ever wrote […]
I know a little bit about the writing of Death on the Nile. Agatha spent a whole year living in the Cataract Hotel as she wrote this novel. Probably one of her finest tuned plots EVER! Cataracts & Elephants Her first husband left her for a younger, prettier floozy then wife. But Agatha then met […]