Mutterings - Sept 27

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Brace :: Girdle (I had to look it up to realise the connection - Lord of the Rings!)
2. Upgrade :: System
3. Run :: Test
4. Construction :: Under (remember those logos on websites a few years ago now!)
5. Lazy :: Evaluation
6. Email :: SMTP
7. Hide :: Bird (finally I get my mind away from computers!!)
8. Hornet :: Stripe
9. Wonder :: Wall
10. Hesitate :: Lost

Teaser Tuesday - Sep 22

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

To make matters worse, the last youth chosen to play Apollo had died shortly after the ceremony, the one before had left and gone to the shrine at Delos, the birthplace of the god. Only Menoetheus, a man with a face racked in a permanent frown - hard to envisage as a beautiful youth - remained of those who had played Apollo before me.

from Salley Vickers Where three roads meet a re-telling of the Oedipus story to a dying Sigmund Freud. Trivium (for those that know Stravinsky) hovered over the spectral retelling.

Mutterings - Sep 20

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Flat :: Tyre
2. Machine :: State (an IT reference!)
3. Arthritis :: Osteo
4. Forks :: Tuning
5. Task force :: Invasion
6. Beads :: Rosary
7. Striped :: Pajamas (or convicts!)
8. Dumpster :: Truck
9. Piggy :: Bank
10. Badge :: Pride

Teaser Tuesday - Sep 6

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

The next stage of advance, lasting a mere 200,000 years or so, reveals a growing use of intelligence in the more careful selection of stones, and more sophisticated methods of knocking them into shape. It was only with the arrival some 100,000 years ago, of homo sapiens, and still more brainpower, that the real acceleration began, visible nowadays in the increasingly numerous and complex artefacts which eventually became the main evidences of civilized life.

from The Concept of Nature by John Habgood. Habgood was the archbishop of York back in the 1980-90s and this book is the text of his Gifford lectures of 2000. I've had this book for a number of years and struggled to start it a few times, this time I've completed and found that once I'd got past the first chapter it was much more interesting as it deals with the environment and medical ethics (amongst other things).

Mutterings - Sep 6

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Holiday :: Memories
2. Rotted :: Palm (maybe I read that as Potted!)
3. Pain :: Emotional
4. Confused :: Dazed
5. Surprised :: Joy (the CS Lewis autobiography)
6. Joint :: Rolled
7. Desert :: Music (Steve Reich)
8. Solicit :: Vaz (current political scandal/debate)
9. Affection :: Tender
10. Memories :: Holiday (no I didn't see this when I did no 1!)

Mutterings - Sep 3

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Electrical :: Circuit
2. Glasses :: Musical
3. Comics :: Satire
4. Satellite :: Telstar (what a throwback!)
5. Tonight :: Michelmore
6. Sweater :: Chunky
7. Clipboard :: Paste
8. Unglued :: Hanging off (Unglued goes nicely with my above association!)
9. Plaid :: Martin (Dead men don't wear...)
10. Upsetting :: Emotion