I wondered that myself Terry. I assume crosses are Christian crosses ie people wishing him ill so hence the "for the whole world seems to smile upon me,".
I really love that phrase he uses on occasion: "then he went away again". A glimpse of how it appeared to a person back then. No one goes away again now.
As I like to say every time I hear an English citizen say extraordinary. It is extraordinary how ordinary extraordinary is to the English! But in SP's case today, I could feel the love.
Just to point out: Lead poisoning would not have affected multiple people simultaneously.
WR to grain contamination: If it were the fault of the grain I would have expected some comment on even more people falling ill at the time of these deaths.
Speaking of grain contamination if someone mentioned A. Huxley's The Devils of Loudon I missed that.
RE: Oz Sue's surprise at the use of "tacky lovehearts". Have a look at Franz Hal's Laughing Cavalier from 1624, esp. the embroidery work on the sleeve. Heart work if you can see it. Makes me think it has been around a lot longer than that. In addition, I always wondered how that shape came to represent a human heart till I saw a pair of swans entwining from their breasts to their heads. They outlined our heart of love. No idea if it is coincident.
Semen doesn't really smell and certainly doesn't go rank. Could get very crispy though...
What I said before I take back. Pepy's is not going blind. He was holding it all in and getting tremendously tremulous. This episode takes me back to my misspent youth.
Avg 15 C for Aug. and that ain't cold? Dirk must be from England. Probably down to 9 C. overnight. Coupled with a reluctance to start up the fireplace in the morning? Freezing!
'reverted to can(n)ibalism' Dim view of humankind or what? By the by they did a study of who survived and who didn't in the Donner party. Young men? First to die. Married women? Most likely to survive.
Comments
Second Reading
About Tuesday 4 November 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
CGS Grain of Salt, Vicente. Tone is unmistakeable.
About Saturday 1 November 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
Look up Oregon trail ruts for an idea of what a bad rut would look like. 150 years later and still deep in the rut.
About Friday 31 October 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
I wondered that myself Terry. I assume crosses are Christian crosses ie people wishing him ill so hence the "for the whole world seems to smile upon me,".
About Thursday 16 October 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
Never pay out a contract before the work is complete. Never. Until heaven reigns on earth this will always true.
About Monday 13 October 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
I really love that phrase he uses on occasion: "then he went away again". A glimpse of how it appeared to a person back then. No one goes away again now.
He used a variant today also: "forth".
About Monday 13 October 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
WR to the "lusty young gentlemen".
Ahem. That would be different kind of flute and a different kind of milk.
About Saturday 11 October 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
Let the lawyers, parsons and physicians loose,
To rob and kill the world.
Henry Fielding - Tom Thumb the Great
1725
About Wednesday 8 October 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
As I like to say every time I hear an English citizen say extraordinary. It is extraordinary how ordinary extraordinary is to the English! But in SP's case today, I could feel the love.
About Monday 6 October 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
I thought this an absolutely beautiful entry! I could feel place, time and his reckoning
through it.
About Sunday 5 October 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
Dancing would be done at Sandwich's country estate? I'm sure he could afford a fine dance band out there in the boonies.
About Monday 22 September 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
From Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb the Great (1725):
King Arthur: I feel a sudden Pain within my Breast,
Nor know I whether it arise from Love,
Or only the Wind-Cholick. Time must shew.
About Saturday 20 September 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
Just to point out: Lead poisoning would not have affected multiple people simultaneously.
WR to grain contamination: If it were the fault of the grain I would have expected some comment on even more people falling ill at the time of these deaths.
Speaking of grain contamination if someone mentioned A. Huxley's The Devils of Loudon I missed that.
About Wednesday 17 September 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
RE: Oz Sue's surprise at the use of "tacky lovehearts". Have a look at Franz Hal's Laughing Cavalier from 1624, esp. the embroidery work on the sleeve. Heart work if you can see it. Makes me think it has been around a lot longer than that. In addition, I always wondered how that shape came to represent a human heart till I saw a pair of swans entwining from their breasts to their heads. They outlined our heart of love. No idea if it is coincident.
Loved the 'fight with a feather'.
About Monday 15 September 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
leads for lead roof. i.e. On the roof.
About Friday 12 September 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
"...wondering if the game is worth the candle." This phrase of Tony E's seems straight out of Pepy's time! Never heard it before.
About Thursday 11 September 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
Speaking of going blind, didn't SP eventually give up on his diary for weakness in the eye? Late nights reading music by candlelight would do that.
About Monday 8 September 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
I like how he is catching people in or just out of bed. Clearly Pepy's is THE early riser.
About Sunday 7 September 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
Semen doesn't really smell and certainly doesn't go rank. Could get very crispy though...
What I said before I take back. Pepy's is not going blind. He was holding it all in and getting tremendously tremulous. This episode takes me back to my misspent youth.
About Friday 29 August 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
Avg 15 C for Aug. and that ain't cold? Dirk must be from England. Probably down to 9 C. overnight. Coupled with a reluctance to start up the fireplace in the morning? Freezing!
About Monday 25 August 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
'reverted to can(n)ibalism' Dim view of humankind or what? By the by they did a study of who survived and who didn't in the Donner party. Young men? First to die. Married women? Most likely to survive.