Sunday, January 21, 2024

not a poem, per se

I debated as to where I ought to place this comment. It is in regards to prose anyhow, and not actually a poem itself, but I was thinking about how many similarities there are between my favorite stories, which makes me think about a scene in a movie "Anonymous" where Edward Devere invents the character of Shakespeare to try to get the attention of Elizabeth. Hahaha, even now, I am working out how that movie is a trope with a trope hinting itself at the archetype that started my thought in the first place.

Many times I think of how the sword in "Barnstoke" (I have never seen it in print so it has been spelled out phonetically) I assume even the worn Barn or Börn finds origin in a celtic source, but I digress... that sword reminds me of the Authurian legend. So much of Volsung is found similarly in Tristan....and that made me think that maybe they were both catchy tales to remember the same facts, the facts that I would like to revisit, or understand, but I do not yet speak the language. Oh, man. Now, I am laughing because of the funny video where someone sees someone speaking in sign language and tries to impress by communicating with them...the try hard attempts to spell out "a-r-e y-o-u d-e-a..." they spell dead when they mean deaf.... much as I used photoshop to change a sign for a meme that say "Caution: dead children at play".