Sunday, July 31, 2005

don't look at the sky (cos it's sin, yar)


here's a super tenous claim to fame. my spinster former english teacher (fan of gerard manley hopkins) is the aunt of the boy who was in the levi's advert which had this song as backing

here is some gerard manley hopkins

I CAUGHT this morning morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!

Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!

No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.

[har har is has the word gash in it]

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

no..dont look at the sky cos if you looked at the sun then youd go blind. of course, you could look at the bit of the sky without the sun in it but i duno, its risky, right, well unless you calculated exactly where the sun would be at the time in question..gallez used to talk about erathosthene did that have anything to do with the above?

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