Pants
A seat of the pants post. Not unique, but an experiment nevertheless. Not sure that I can, or want to, return to the formal sort of essays I started this site to practice. Not ready to start another novel. Nor with any good idea of what to do next. All at sea being essentially done editing the π. Perhaps I can dither at daily thoughts. Movie suggestions. Odd news. Feature other blogs. My stories feel far away, taking a long nap under the bed until the thunder is long gone. Continue to share my photographic view of my world, certainly.
I am empty and alone and cold. Drifting. It's not bad. Just not very juicy. Hibernating.
So, as when I want to contact friends, and cannot find words, I relate an Item of Interest.
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.
Rain.
To rain cats and dogs. In northern mythology the cat is supposed to have great influence on the weather, and English sailors still say, “The cat has a gale of wind in her tail,” when she is unusually frisky. Witches that rode upon the storms were said to assume the form of cats; and the stormy north-west wind is called the cat’s-nose in the Harz even at the present day. 1
The dog is a signal of wind, like the wolf, both which animals were attendants of Odin, the storm-god. In old German pictures the wind is figured as the “head of a dog or wolf,” from which blasts issue. 2
The cat therefore symbolises the downpouring rain, and the dog the strong gusts of wind which accompany a rainstorm; and a “rain of cats and dogs” is a heavy rain with wind. (See CAT AND DOG.) 3
The French catadoupe or catadupe means a waterfall.
I am empty and alone and cold. Drifting. It's not bad. Just not very juicy. Hibernating.
So, as when I want to contact friends, and cannot find words, I relate an Item of Interest.
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.
Rain.
To rain cats and dogs. In northern mythology the cat is supposed to have great influence on the weather, and English sailors still say, “The cat has a gale of wind in her tail,” when she is unusually frisky. Witches that rode upon the storms were said to assume the form of cats; and the stormy north-west wind is called the cat’s-nose in the Harz even at the present day. 1
The dog is a signal of wind, like the wolf, both which animals were attendants of Odin, the storm-god. In old German pictures the wind is figured as the “head of a dog or wolf,” from which blasts issue. 2
The cat therefore symbolises the downpouring rain, and the dog the strong gusts of wind which accompany a rainstorm; and a “rain of cats and dogs” is a heavy rain with wind. (See CAT AND DOG.) 3
The French catadoupe or catadupe means a waterfall.
Posted by Zhoen on Friday, February 10, 2006
11 comments:
You need a break ... can't rain words for weeks on end without sunny spells of life every now and then!
A free form post, but definitely and unmistakeably with your stamp and your personality on it. It sounds as if you are in a temporary no-mans-land, a space apart.
And I really like the item of interest -thank you for that, I don't think I would have found these nuggets of information on my own - I love myths and folk tales.
I know that my creativity energy ebbs and flows. I assume it's that way for everyone at least sometimes.
Finally read the last of Pi and commented there.
Raining cats and dogs... reigning stacks of gods...
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Actually, when i started blogging, i considered the idea of a specific format, a series of essays like you have done.
It lasted maybe a couple of weeks, because sometimes all I had in me that day or that week was a sentence. Other times, the whole thing felt, after five or six paragraghs, rather pompous.
Whatever works for you, Zhoen.
Take a break and recharge if you need to. I'd be glad to read little bits from your day, though, if the polished essays are feeling like too much (as I'd think they would). I wanted to say that I haven't had time to read your novel yet but I want to and will; things have been too crazy for me and I am saving it for some quiet time that I hope is coming up. But that's why I haven't commented on it - just wanted to let you know.
The novel was largely unreadable in the form it was in on this site. A friend asked about it, I went and looked, and it was... miserable. So. It's all down, sadly so are all the comments (sob). Give it about a week, and I hope to have it up in a less impenetrable form.
I rather want a site with less embarrassing bellybutton lint analysis. So my long time friends can come by.
Although, I could write a lot about navel contents.
I bet you could! ;-)
mb,
IS that a dare?
Just checking. Because I have some Omphalos accounts. The wise do not ask this lightly.
...cracking up over here...
Dither away, please do. I loved the old concept of 52 pieces, but it's a tough regime to maintain.
I want to read your novel too, but haven't been able to tackle it on screen yet. I have dipped, though, and want more.
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