Blake is such an astonishing genius. I love the cleverness there - I highly doubt the '-try' ending rhymed with 'eye' in eighteenth-century English. Hence, a lack of 'symmetry' in the line, demonstrating the lack of ability to 'frame' it. Just tossed off, you know.
However, you do learn a lot about how English was pronounced by looking at poems, and British English pronunciation varies quite a bit from American English. (c.f. "Goosey, Goosey Gander" where at one point in time/space "wander" did rhyme with "chamber". Vowels seem to be the parts that vary the most.)
It's interesting to read earlier drafts. He didn't change a whole lot, but he did excise a few silly lines like "What the ankle, what the knee?" and "This place smells like tyger pee!"
Big cats move me like no other creature... In another life, I might've been one of those tourists who climb barriers and thwart safety measures to provide scritches, hopefully I survived...
Awww....tempting to want to rub that striped belly, I say, "don't!" Why? I don't know about Ryan, but Shadow didn't like it and let me know, so I learned, and didn't. Shadow did love head, ear, and chin scritches.
You folks who are still employed should let us retirees handle this. We don’t have a boss people can complain to, so we say whatever the fuck we want. Don’t risk your job for a lowlife piece of shit like Charlie. We got this.
After Wednesday's events, I found my productivity tanked again. I've now installed an app that limits me to 1 hour of news time COMBINED on all discussion websites, including Wonkette. I love you, but I have to keep my job too.
Trix writes: "Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is probably the least loathsome Republican I can think of. Also, notably, he’s the only one who saw fit to mention all the attacks on Democrats."
I ran across another just this morning: "Don Bacon, a Republican from Nebraska who is retiring after this term, told NBC News that he wished Trump would unite the country after the shooting, 'but he’s a populist, and populists dwell on anger ... I have to remind people, we had Democrats killed in Minnesota too, right?'”
He's retiring. More than ever this underscores the difference between D.C. MAGA Republicans and ordinary Republicans out in the rest of the country, just like reactions to Trump underscore the difference between D.C. Establishment Democrats and Dems out in the states and cities.
That's where the crack is, folks. That's where you put the wedge.
First of all, as cute as that tiger may look, you do not want to be within 10 yards of those beasts. They are killers and the highest predator on the planet. I read “No Beast So Fierce: The Tiger of Champawat”. She killed 436 people and at one point leapt a long way from the underbrush to grab a man off an elephant. Never saw it coming.
And that is how I feel about the news today. It sucks. AND what’s happening is incredibly dangerous.
Then I found out about the Tiger of Champawat, and the reason that she attacked people, namely some asshole shot at her and broke a fang and she couldn't hunt properly.
But........but........but..........WHAR????..........never mind, I'll (try to be) good. Back to the TABS!!!!! Shirley, there IS more going on in the world, most of it not good, besides......we know, we all know, what.
The rumor mill is claiming Kirk was planning to run for President. But he's too young to run, right? Or is the age requirement for the day of inauguration?
You know what all those firings are for? MTSU makes it explicit what all of them are for: "her thoughtlessness and lack of empathy". Empathy, like everything for the right wing, is a one way street.
A state court in Florida just ruled that Florida's ban on "open carry" was unconstitutional ( Florida has already legalized "concealed carry" without a permit, but any "saving grace" was that gun nuts in Florida could not visit their local Publix carrying one of their AR-15's ( of which, most have several, no doubt ).
It was "just" a three-judge panel of Florida's 1st District Court of Appeals, so one might wonder if the defendants will apply for an En Banc ruling. In 2003, The Florida Supreme Court upheld the "open carry" ban in 2015, but DeSantis has managed to change the composition of that court that even if the case makes it there, the ruling is likely to be upheld.
So, Florida is going to start looking even more like Texas
I left Nevada 12 years ago. Open carry is fine in rural counties there. I got used to seeing sidearms in grocery stores. The first time I saw a long gun strapped across a shooter's chest, I left my half full cart in the aisle and headed for the door. I explained to the front end manager what I did and why, and where to send a clerk to do the go-backs.
Back in 2023, when Florida passed that "concealed carry" law, I found it risible that they continued to ban "open carry" - it was okay to be armed in public as long as you didn't let other people know ( which has long been the argument used by gun nuts in saying that "An armed society is a polite society" - bullshit I remember reading in a Heinlein novel years before. )
I do remember gun nuts here being critical of that decision back in 2023, because it wasn't a full-tilt bozo implementation of what they call "constitutional carry" - but I guess they've got that now.
We need a nice tiger belly to offset the week: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/blissful-belly-exposing
And your meme chat, pre-loaded with some good Onion headlines: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/a25af4a2-c687-4ea4-ab51-0b6f2e6f951c?utm_source=share
Reminded me of Tigger. :-)
I love it when I see big cats acting exactly like my cute little house cat.
One of my favorite creatures, just beautiful. My kitty sleeps on her back and LETS YOU PET THE BELLEH!
Martini Glambassador, you are the absolute best!
A tiger belly and a yawn.
Hobbs!!
Hobbs!!
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YNLr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a01f89d-479a-4c3c-bb18-6dc56842515c_4032x3024.jpeg
They nothing but bigger house cats.
And house cats are nothing but smaller big cats.
Tell them, that
Tiger tiger burning bright
In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? - William Blake
What the anvil? What the chain?
In what furnace was they brain?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?
Blake is such an astonishing genius. I love the cleverness there - I highly doubt the '-try' ending rhymed with 'eye' in eighteenth-century English. Hence, a lack of 'symmetry' in the line, demonstrating the lack of ability to 'frame' it. Just tossed off, you know.
However, you do learn a lot about how English was pronounced by looking at poems, and British English pronunciation varies quite a bit from American English. (c.f. "Goosey, Goosey Gander" where at one point in time/space "wander" did rhyme with "chamber". Vowels seem to be the parts that vary the most.)
Certainly true, and I could be wrong! 'Tis my hunch, however.
It's interesting to read earlier drafts. He didn't change a whole lot, but he did excise a few silly lines like "What the ankle, what the knee?" and "This place smells like tyger pee!"
I jest; that last one is mine.
Oh SO NOW jestering is encouraged in the non-comments! Are our standards slipping a mite?
I've gone rogue.
"I'm a fuel-injected suicide machine!"
- Night Rider, MAD MAX
Tyger, tyger, what thy base?
OMG HE'S EATING MY FACE
It's "Tyger." Wonderful poem!
He was ahead of his time. Outside his time.
Also a bit neurodivergent
"It's a trap!"
Big cats move me like no other creature... In another life, I might've been one of those tourists who climb barriers and thwart safety measures to provide scritches, hopefully I survived...
I would DEFINITELY let that sleeping dog lie....
Juan engaged in similar behavior in a scattering of river birch leaves during his morning walk. He seemed ecstatic.
Yes, I've seen exactly that before!
https://substack.com/@tehbaddr/note/c-145998060
Needz belly scritches!
I got to rub a tiger belly. He had no teeth or claws, becuz Hollywood reject. Big boy.
Awww....tempting to want to rub that striped belly, I say, "don't!" Why? I don't know about Ryan, but Shadow didn't like it and let me know, so I learned, and didn't. Shadow did love head, ear, and chin scritches.
IT'S A TRAP!
You folks who are still employed should let us retirees handle this. We don’t have a boss people can complain to, so we say whatever the fuck we want. Don’t risk your job for a lowlife piece of shit like Charlie. We got this.
Where can I find myself a vintage Jesse Jackson for Prez t-shirt?
Kash & Bongo! Lol!
WHAR EVAN?
So the best way to honor a free speech warrior is to attack anyone who speaks ill of him?
Thank god for tiger belly
Jared Moskowitz, master level trolling the Shitler lickspittles as usual, and closing with a Kirk reference to boot:
https://youtu.be/dc5kwN0YcdU?si=J7x6Qy7oY9pd5MgU
After Wednesday's events, I found my productivity tanked again. I've now installed an app that limits me to 1 hour of news time COMBINED on all discussion websites, including Wonkette. I love you, but I have to keep my job too.
Non-comments threads shouldn't count as news, they are parasocializing.
Without a job, just think how much time you'll have to Wonk!
Trix writes: "Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is probably the least loathsome Republican I can think of. Also, notably, he’s the only one who saw fit to mention all the attacks on Democrats."
I ran across another just this morning: "Don Bacon, a Republican from Nebraska who is retiring after this term, told NBC News that he wished Trump would unite the country after the shooting, 'but he’s a populist, and populists dwell on anger ... I have to remind people, we had Democrats killed in Minnesota too, right?'”
He's retiring. More than ever this underscores the difference between D.C. MAGA Republicans and ordinary Republicans out in the rest of the country, just like reactions to Trump underscore the difference between D.C. Establishment Democrats and Dems out in the states and cities.
That's where the crack is, folks. That's where you put the wedge.
First of all, as cute as that tiger may look, you do not want to be within 10 yards of those beasts. They are killers and the highest predator on the planet. I read “No Beast So Fierce: The Tiger of Champawat”. She killed 436 people and at one point leapt a long way from the underbrush to grab a man off an elephant. Never saw it coming.
And that is how I feel about the news today. It sucks. AND what’s happening is incredibly dangerous.
That guy should of had a taller elephant!
Well it was India and they’re smaller there.
Then I found out about the Tiger of Champawat, and the reason that she attacked people, namely some asshole shot at her and broke a fang and she couldn't hunt properly.
https://throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2020/08/d-doesnt-understand-what-monsters-are.html
Exactly. People were pretty easy prey. She also seemed to carry a bit of a grudge, ya think?!
I'm not sure I disagree with her.
But........but........but..........WHAR????..........never mind, I'll (try to be) good. Back to the TABS!!!!! Shirley, there IS more going on in the world, most of it not good, besides......we know, we all know, what.
The rumor mill is claiming Kirk was planning to run for President. But he's too young to run, right? Or is the age requirement for the day of inauguration?
Drumpf was too young -- mentally -- to run for president.
Seriously.
Idea for those who have the means: buy Brazilian coffee even if it's exhorbitant.
That's a excellent idea!
You know what all those firings are for? MTSU makes it explicit what all of them are for: "her thoughtlessness and lack of empathy". Empathy, like everything for the right wing, is a one way street.
I thought Kirk hated the concept of empathy. At least MTSU has irony down.
A state court in Florida just ruled that Florida's ban on "open carry" was unconstitutional ( Florida has already legalized "concealed carry" without a permit, but any "saving grace" was that gun nuts in Florida could not visit their local Publix carrying one of their AR-15's ( of which, most have several, no doubt ).
It was "just" a three-judge panel of Florida's 1st District Court of Appeals, so one might wonder if the defendants will apply for an En Banc ruling. In 2003, The Florida Supreme Court upheld the "open carry" ban in 2015, but DeSantis has managed to change the composition of that court that even if the case makes it there, the ruling is likely to be upheld.
So, Florida is going to start looking even more like Texas
I left Nevada 12 years ago. Open carry is fine in rural counties there. I got used to seeing sidearms in grocery stores. The first time I saw a long gun strapped across a shooter's chest, I left my half full cart in the aisle and headed for the door. I explained to the front end manager what I did and why, and where to send a clerk to do the go-backs.
Back in 2023, when Florida passed that "concealed carry" law, I found it risible that they continued to ban "open carry" - it was okay to be armed in public as long as you didn't let other people know ( which has long been the argument used by gun nuts in saying that "An armed society is a polite society" - bullshit I remember reading in a Heinlein novel years before. )
I do remember gun nuts here being critical of that decision back in 2023, because it wasn't a full-tilt bozo implementation of what they call "constitutional carry" - but I guess they've got that now.
They're always uncompromising in their demands; any compromise is seen as a defeat to their cause.
Whee, another reason to stay firmly above the Mason-Dixon Line.