tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post6901006491969072348..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: fish, toys, revisionsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-29601458066431253812009-10-20T12:15:17.384+01:002009-10-20T12:15:17.384+01:00Having not read much poetry I can call little of i...Having not read much poetry I can call little of it to mind. But to quote the author of <em>Lives</em> the word "reflex" - and that alone - is why <em>The Prelude</em> cut a "benign groove" in my remembering apparatus. Better than that are the widening ripples of memory that evoke the solitude and unearthly splendour of skating in the dark on a Lake District lake.<br /><br />Keats had the bad luck to transform his line into an early sighting (surely not the first?) of a cliché. Of course, that is hindsight's judgement and he cannot be blamed. Or can he? Some clichés outlive becoming a cliché but I doubt that this is one of them. Rather pat.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-87639684992275077792009-10-19T20:10:48.874+01:002009-10-19T20:10:48.874+01:00Wow! That fish is decidedly sinister!Wow! That fish is decidedly sinister!Rashmihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05725115915969270776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-75261606905441140872009-10-18T18:17:15.327+01:002009-10-18T18:17:15.327+01:00The remote controlled hairy spider is decidedly sc...The remote controlled hairy spider is decidedly scary ad illustrates the power of the human mind to trigger emotions that are based on perceptions of falshood. We once bought a clockwork mouse for our cats,who steadfastly ignored it, though. Maybe they would do the same with the "spider."Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07642126053527835870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-74026552804188681792009-10-18T18:02:54.679+01:002009-10-18T18:02:54.679+01:00Forgot - the RC hairy spider wouldn't last lon...Forgot - the RC hairy spider wouldn't last long with me. My atavistic fear would make me forget it was a toy and I would stomp it to pieces the first (last, only) time it skittered across the floor.<br /><br />Sounds like a wonderful toys-for-all-ages catalog, though.<br /><br />:)The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-37029785982598183982009-10-18T17:59:36.090+01:002009-10-18T17:59:36.090+01:00Great photo! So 'other-worldly,' surreal,...Great photo! So 'other-worldly,' surreal, yet so reminiscent of something from childhood. Looks like an illustration from one of the better children's books.<br /><br />The composition is delightful; especially so the seaweed, thrust through the picture like some wavy-edged dagger of aged copper.<br /><br />Very nice.<br /><br />:)The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.com