Recent content by Rigor Mortis

Funnily enough, the Son shines brighter in London.

The first time I heard of Hail Mary as last resort was in an American football video game and have heard it in other contexts since, but mostly US contexts. I could recite the prayer in my head just now, which kinda surprised me. Moving on, my wife returns tomorrow after a week in Florida and a...

Repressed memory. Speaking of which, does the Apostles Creed reference Hail Mary?

Last resort can sometimes be surprisingly early.

I'm going to try harder. And say 6 Hail Mary's and 2 and a half Our Father's.

Bless me father for I have sinned. It's over 40 years since my last confession and even then I didn't mean it. I have sometimes clicked on this thread and not posted on it. I have also told lies. That should read often and not sometimes.

Great tune. Love the drums on it. Post your recording when you've got it down.

The Irish alphabet has fewer letters. Specifically, there's no j, k, q, v, w, x, y, z. The sounds of those letters are instead created through combination of other letters and arrangement, with inflection of the fada on vowels which deepens/lengthens their sound. Medb is not a spelling I've...

Every so often I think I should learn Irish beyond what has lingered from reluctant school days, which is closer to memory of trauma than anything else. (mostly kidding) Language is a funny thing. It allows for description of significant things where a collection of words delivers the message...

Without going into details, well meaning incompetents are far more dangerous than jaded, but competent, cynics.

Within a long rumination: "For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something..." I can't recommend (edit) enough the reading by Barry McGovern of an adapted version of the novel, take a 40 minute drive somewhere and play it in the car.

Did you get around to reading Watt?

It maybe pedantic or misguided, particularly as I see value in the analogy, but I'd suggest it's pointed askew. If the apprentice mentioned is a carpenter, there are laws of physics that might be best kept in mind when the work is being assembled. The same laws apply to the journeyman and the...

And others would disagree and call his work pretentiously stylistic and lacking substance. I disagree with that appraisal, but it is out there. Agreed. And substance without style is like reading a shopping list. The argument I make is that both must co-exist for either to be a worthwhile...

I'd argue that's not a universal thing. What one reader views as mood and vibe alone, thereby lacking substance, can be deeply resonant for another. Not to hark on it, and I may have mentioned it before, there's a play "Not I" performed by Billie Whitelaw, written by Samuel Beckett and available...