SP creates for himself the length of a diurnal day.
"the shortness of the days making me to lie a little longer than I used to do, but I must make it up by sitting up longer of nights." -- less and less to do with "making hay while the sun shines," as the saying is on a farm.
Urban work and artificial light make possible another kind of "day" -- see also SP's role in "Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785," by Stuart Sherman (University of Chicago Press, 1997) http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
What, pray tell, are the "door and hatch" referred to here? Was this usual in the 17c? My history of architecture books don't clarify this. I have a storm/screen door and wooden door (hatch), but I'm not sure SP is dealing with that exactly.
Yes, Jan, esp. since "a way how Sir John Minnes shall come into the leads" was involved: no small matter that, as we have seen the Pepys's demonstrate at night.
Peter, kudos! St. Margaret's depicted as an aphrodysiac!
Who but you and SP and the Betty's (bearing by-names of Elizabeth!) could not only have had this thought, but have presented it, ah, graphically [text juxtaposed with the upthrusts of the arches and spires, Charles I looking up his nose?!)
"Epictetus's rule: [A phrase in Greek is omitted from the transcript. P.G.]”
L&M note that “Dr. Luckett writes: Pepys is loosely paraphrasing, or inaccurately recalling, Epictetus (*Encheiridion* 1.1): * τών οντων τά μέν έστιν εκ εφ ήμιν, τά δε ουκ εφ ώμιν” (‘Of things, some are in our power, others are not’). He accidentally writes “ουχ” for “ουκ”…: the slip is a natural one given the extensive use of ligatures in the seventeenth century. That it was a consequence of accident rather than of ignorance is demonstrated bu his correct use of “ουκ” at iv.16.)”
Mentioning Reinhold Niehuhr’s “Serenity Prayer” here is on topic: he had indeed read the Encheiridion and wrote the prayer for himself after an encounter after a lecture with auditors who persisted in misundersanding his main point — vexed at himself. like Sam he recalls Epictetus.
In a more extreme circumstance: The historical model for “Colonel Nicholson” the hero of “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957)( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00502… ), Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Toosey ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil… ), attributed his strategy and the high survival-rate of his troops to the lessons of the Enchiridion, esp. this one, which he had read in school, according to an article by his friend Yvor Winters, published in Stanford Magazine.
"a most excellent anthem, with symphonys between, sung by Captain Cooke."
L&M note: "The symphonies were probably played on the organ, perhaps supported by wind instruments: cf. Evelyn.... According to Pepys, 14 September was 'the first day of having Vialls and other Instruments to play a Symphony between every verse of the Anthem...."
Cooke, the Baltic merchant, is a man of many parts (well, vocally, just one at a time, of course).
"a good sermon of the Dean of Ely's, upon returning to the old ways”
L&M note: “Francis Wilford was the preacher, and the text presumably Jer., vi. 16. The subject was the return of ecclesiastical unifomity.”
The text: “Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.”
"the yacht…built by our virtuosoes...with the help of Commissioner Pett"
Although SP will come to admire Pett as the greatest ship-designer ever, at this stage he has a negative relation to him.
language hat, it is not irrelant to know that Ivan IV (Ива́н Гро́зный, Ivan Grozny = Ivan the Terrible, Awesome or Frightening), gradually grew mentally unbalanced and violent. Two years before Bowes was sent to his court, “In 1581, Ivan Grozny beat his pregnant daughter-in-law for wearing immodest clothing, causing a miscarriage. His son Ivan, upon learning of this, engaged in a heated argument with his father which resulted in his (accidental) death. This event is depicted in the famous painting by Ilya Repin, Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581 better known as Ivan the Terrible killing his son.” This text and an image of the painting are at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan…
For shame, Dirk: Ivan the Terrible, the first Tsar, was a sweetie.
"Ivan the Terrible used to carry a metal-pointed staff with him, which he used to lash out at people who offended him. Once, he had peasant women stripped naked and used as target practice by his Oprichniki. Another time, he had several hundred beggars drowned in a lake. A boyar was set on a barrel of gunpowder and blown to bits. Jerome Horsey wrote how Prince Boris Telupa "was drawn upon a long sharp-made stake, which entered the lower part of his body and came out of his neck; upon which he languished a horrible pain for 15 hours alive, and spoke to his mother, brought to behold that woeful sight. And she was given to 100 gunners, who defiled her to death, and the Emperor's hungry hounds devoured her flesh and bones". His treasurer, Nikita Funikov, was boiled to death in a cauldron. His councillor, Ivan Viskovaty, was hung, while Ivan's entourage took turns hacking off pieces of his body.
"In 1570, on the basis of unproved accusations of treason, Ivan sacked and burned the city of Novgorod and tortured, mutilated, impaled, roasted, and otherwise massacred its citizens. A German mercenary wrote: "Mounting a horse and brandishing a spear, he charged in and ran people through while his son watched the entertainment...". Novgorod's archbishop was first sewn up in a bearskin and then hunted to death by a pack of hounds. Men, women and children were tied to sleighs, which were then run into the freezing waters of the Volkhov River. The mass of corpses made it flood its banks. Novgorod never recovered. Later the city of Pskov suffered a similar fate." http://www.xs4all.nl/~kvenjb/madm…
Dirk records Evelyn's diary as saying on 13 August “Today the official foundation of the ‘Royal Society’” Does this suggest the virtuosi might have had their heads elsewhere, since Evelyn makes no comment on the trial of the Jemmy? http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
"the yacht lately built by our virtuosoes...with the help of Commissioner Pett"
L&M note: "The yacht built by Pett and the virtuosi was the *Jemmy*..."
L&M have changed their tune: on 13 August they said in a note: "She was built by Commissioner Pett. The Royal Society appears to have had no part in this enterprise."
Is there an independent source that can confirm one account or the other?
As clocks augmented church-bells in urban England, with a portable watche soon to come, SP was not only a man of his time, but created the first example of it: see "Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785," by Stuart Sherman. http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
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First Reading
About Friday 12 September 1662
Terry F • Link
"my fear is that [Sir John Minnes] will get my best chamber from me"
Can some more-than second-story person explain which chamber is in question here?
About Friday 12 September 1662
Terry F, • Link
Jeannine, if they were Ferrer's fingers that were cut off today, then his diary would probably end rather abruptly on Sept. 11, 1662!
About Thursday 11 September 1662
Terry F, • Link
"diurnal day" is redundant; it's the diurnal work period that seems to be at stake for our Sam'l.
About Thursday 11 September 1662
Terry F • Link
SP creates for himself the length of a diurnal day.
"the shortness of the days making me to lie a little longer than I used to do, but I must make it up by sitting up longer of nights." -- less and less to do with "making hay while the sun shines," as the saying is on a farm.
Urban work and artificial light make possible another kind of "day" -- see also SP's role in "Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785," by Stuart Sherman (University of Chicago Press, 1997) http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Wednesday 10 September 1662
Terry F, • Link
"finding both door and hatch open, I went in"
What, pray tell, are the "door and hatch" referred to here? Was this usual in the 17c? My history of architecture books don't clarify this. I have a storm/screen door and wooden door (hatch), but I'm not sure SP is dealing with that exactly.
About Wednesday 10 September 1662
Terry F, • Link
Yes, Jan, esp. since "a way how Sir John Minnes shall come into the leads" was involved: no small matter that, as we have seen the Pepys's demonstrate at night.
About St Margaret's Church, Westminster
Terry F, • Link
Peter, kudos! St. Margaret's depicted as an aphrodysiac!
Who but you and SP and the Betty's (bearing by-names of Elizabeth!) could not only have had this thought, but have presented it, ah, graphically [text juxtaposed with the upthrusts of the arches and spires, Charles I looking up his nose?!)
About Wednesday 10 September 1662
Terry F, • Link
Giving Sir John Minnes access to the leads and Sam to the WC: can anyone tease out what the devil SP has "contrived"?
(Clever man, our fave Obsessive-compulsive!)
About Tuesday 9 September 1662
Terry F, • Link
"Epictetus's rule: [A phrase in Greek is omitted from the transcript. P.G.]”
L&M note that “Dr. Luckett writes: Pepys is loosely paraphrasing, or inaccurately recalling, Epictetus (*Encheiridion* 1.1): * τών οντων τά μέν έστιν εκ εφ ήμιν, τά δε ουκ εφ ώμιν” (‘Of things, some are in our power, others are not’). He accidentally writes “ουχ” for “ουκ”…: the slip is a natural one given the extensive use of ligatures in the seventeenth century. That it was a consequence of accident rather than of ignorance is demonstrated bu his correct use of “ουκ” at iv.16.)”
Mentioning Reinhold Niehuhr’s “Serenity Prayer” here is on topic: he had indeed read the Encheiridion and wrote the prayer for himself after an encounter after a lecture with auditors who persisted in misundersanding his main point — vexed at himself. like Sam he recalls Epictetus.
In a more extreme circumstance: The historical model for “Colonel Nicholson” the hero of “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957)( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00502… ), Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Toosey ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil… ), attributed his strategy and the high survival-rate of his troops to the lessons of the Enchiridion, esp. this one, which he had read in school, according to an article by his friend Yvor Winters, published in Stanford Magazine.
About Sunday 7 September 1662
Terry F, • Link
Sorry, this Captain [Henry] Cooke is not the Baltic merchant.
(But he traveled in circles in which he *might* have encoutered a Tuvan throat singer....)
About Sunday 7 September 1662
Terry F, • Link
Did Cooke necessarily sing just one part at a time?
Perhaps not if he had encountered in his travels Tuvan throat singing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thro…
About Sunday 7 September 1662
Terry F, • Link
"a most excellent anthem, with symphonys between, sung by Captain Cooke."
L&M note: "The symphonies were probably played on the organ, perhaps supported by wind instruments: cf. Evelyn.... According to Pepys, 14 September was 'the first day of having Vialls and other Instruments to play a Symphony between every verse of the Anthem...."
Cooke, the Baltic merchant, is a man of many parts (well, vocally, just one at a time, of course).
About Sunday 7 September 1662
Terry F, • Link
"a good sermon of the Dean of Ely's, upon returning to the old ways”
L&M note: “Francis Wilford was the preacher, and the text presumably Jer., vi. 16. The subject was the return of ecclesiastical unifomity.”
The text: “Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.”
About Saturday 6 September 1662
Terry F, • Link
cloy verb cloyed, cloying
1. To supply with too much of something, especially something too rich or sweet; surfeit.
2. To satiate to the point of disgust.
See synonyms at glut, satiate, choke, gorge, sate, overindulge, surfeit; Antonym: whet.
[Short for obs. accloy, "to nail, hence, to clog, satiate. Middle English *inclavare*: from Latin clavus, nail.]
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
About Saturday 6 September 1662
Terry F, • Link
Today SP preoccupied with his vexed body and soul.
Bradford, great query and mathematiques!
I expect all will out in the end.
About Friday 5 September 1662
Terry F, • Link
"the yacht…built by our virtuosoes...with the help of Commissioner Pett"
Although SP will come to admire Pett as the greatest ship-designer ever, at this stage he has a negative relation to him.
language hat, it is not irrelant to know that Ivan IV (Ива́н Гро́зный, Ivan Grozny = Ivan the Terrible, Awesome or Frightening), gradually grew mentally unbalanced and violent. Two years before Bowes was sent to his court, “In 1581, Ivan Grozny beat his pregnant daughter-in-law for wearing immodest clothing, causing a miscarriage. His son Ivan, upon learning of this, engaged in a heated argument with his father which resulted in his (accidental) death. This event is depicted in the famous painting by Ilya Repin, Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581 better known as Ivan the Terrible killing his son.” This text and an image of the painting are at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan…
The penny-dreadful material was Ivan.
About Friday 5 September 1662
Terry F, • Link
For shame, Dirk: Ivan the Terrible, the first Tsar, was a sweetie.
"Ivan the Terrible used to carry a metal-pointed staff with him, which he used to lash out at people who offended him. Once, he had peasant women stripped naked and used as target practice by his Oprichniki. Another time, he had several hundred beggars drowned in a lake. A boyar was set on a barrel of gunpowder and blown to bits. Jerome Horsey wrote how Prince Boris Telupa "was drawn upon a long sharp-made stake, which entered the lower part of his body and came out of his neck; upon which he languished a horrible pain for 15 hours alive, and spoke to his mother, brought to behold that woeful sight. And she was given to 100 gunners, who defiled her to death, and the Emperor's hungry hounds devoured her flesh and bones". His treasurer, Nikita Funikov, was boiled to death in a cauldron. His councillor, Ivan Viskovaty, was hung, while Ivan's entourage took turns hacking off pieces of his body.
"In 1570, on the basis of unproved accusations of treason, Ivan sacked and burned the city of Novgorod and tortured, mutilated, impaled, roasted, and otherwise massacred its citizens. A German mercenary wrote: "Mounting a horse and brandishing a spear, he charged in and ran people through while his son watched the entertainment...". Novgorod's archbishop was first sewn up in a bearskin and then hunted to death by a pack of hounds. Men, women and children were tied to sleighs, which were then run into the freezing waters of the Volkhov River. The mass of corpses made it flood its banks. Novgorod never recovered. Later the city of Pskov suffered a similar fate."
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kvenjb/madm…
About Friday 5 September 1662
Terry F, • Link
Dirk records Evelyn's diary as saying on 13 August “Today the official foundation of the ‘Royal Society’”
Does this suggest the virtuosi might have had their heads elsewhere, since Evelyn makes no comment on the trial of the Jemmy?
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Friday 5 September 1662
Terry F, • Link
"the yacht lately built by our virtuosoes...with the help of Commissioner Pett"
L&M note: "The yacht built by Pett and the virtuosi was the *Jemmy*..."
L&M have changed their tune: on 13 August they said in a note: "She was built by Commissioner Pett. The Royal Society appears to have had no part in this enterprise."
Is there an independent source that can confirm one account or the other?
About Wednesday 3 September 1662
Terry F, • Link
Daily time-accounting in the diary
As clocks augmented church-bells in urban England, with a portable watche soon to come, SP was not only a man of his time, but created the first example of it: see "Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785," by Stuart Sherman.
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…