tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post6300314710875083590..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: shadows, brackets, sawAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-372835545617310732009-01-14T20:22:00.000+00:002009-01-14T20:22:00.000+00:00'a deaf most amorous melancholy gentleman' What a ...'a deaf most amorous melancholy gentleman' <BR/><BR/>What a burden of misfortune and epithet to be labouring under!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-50997813210350954722009-01-13T12:53:00.000+00:002009-01-13T12:53:00.000+00:00That's so with Pepys, always interested in such de...That's so with Pepys, always interested in such details. But it was a busy day for him, by then a civil servant of rising importance in the Admiralty. At Deptford his ultimate destination, he and the colonel had to choose four captains to command the guards. After that, dinner at the Globe, where "Never till now did I see the great authority of my place, "all the captains of the fleet coming cap in hand to us."<BR/>Pepys stayed that night with Mr Davis the storekeeper "(whose wife is ill and so I could not see her) and there was most princelike lodged, with so much respect and honour that I was almost at a loss how to behave myself."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-34123376459105346882009-01-13T12:30:00.000+00:002009-01-13T12:30:00.000+00:00That's a remarkable parenthetical. You get the ide...That's a remarkable parenthetical. You get the idea Pepys was more interested in its contents than the main sentence that surrounds it.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-46046027947935211922009-01-13T10:51:00.000+00:002009-01-13T10:51:00.000+00:00As with much of my photography, more luck than ski...As with much of my photography, more luck than skill, and taking advantage of interesting conditons. But thank you all the same.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-89723377295842032432009-01-13T10:42:00.000+00:002009-01-13T10:42:00.000+00:00That's one heck of a photograph. Well visioned and...That's one heck of a photograph. Well visioned and, so far as I can tell from the repro', good technically. I am really quite envious.Dave Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430484174826768488noreply@blogger.com