"...and troubled that Creed did see so much of my dalliance, though very little." Good thing SP is a good judge of what is "fit time and place". Otherwise Creed might have had a real "raree-show" to talk about!
A horse can gallop for around 2 miles before being fatigued. Unlikely to be galloping while pulling a coach even though John Ford films indicate otherwise!
Pepys behaviour is not so strange as Mensur is still practised today-- albeit with better protection. One thinks of Franz Boas - father of modern anthropology and of the well scarred face!
MENSUR: Academic fencing (German akademisches Fechten) or Mensur is the traditional kind of fencing practiced by some student corporations (Studentenverbindungen) in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Latvia, Estonia, and, to a minor extent, in Belgium, Lithuania, and Poland. It is a traditional, strictly regulated épée/rapier fight between two male members of different fraternities with sharp weapons. The German technical term Mensur (from Latin, dimension) in the 16th century referred to the specified distance between each of the fencers
I am imagining that Mrs. Daniels thought it would be "safe" seeing the man in his home. Instead, it seems to have inflamed him recklessly. What Freud have to say about it all!
War of the Pacific aka The Guano Wars. Tristan Jones in The Incredible Voyage (1978) recounts taking his sailboat up to Lake Titicaca and so becoming the first ocean going vessel to dock in Bolivia since that war. He was very well received by the Bolivian Yacht Club. At the same time he noticed some members were Nazi Kreigsmariners.
Shrinking out of the collar. A ox is yoked, a horse is collared.
I think Carcasse is suppose to be the collar. To my mind this implies making some people responsible for having Carcasse appointed to the NB. Pen manages to shrink away from this 'collar of responsibility' for either Carcasse's hire or his subsequent behaviour. Bruckner cannot shrink from it.
A Day at Home in Early Modern England: Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500–1700 by Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art/Yale University Press, 311 pp., $75.00
Got this from Far Dabhoiwala review in the NYRB:
“Enclosed chimney flues remained a novel and somewhat precarious technology. When, in 1626, the London woodturner Nehemiah Wallington tried to improve his kitchen by installing one, the entire gable end of his house collapsed, and all three chimneys fell in. This was one reason why heated chambers remained a rare luxury. Another was probably the perpetual danger of fire, especially at night. Being able to light the house after dark was a sign of middling status, but unguarded candles were a constant concern. On the evening of July 4, 1629, Wallington’s apprentice Obadiah Seeley disobeyed the house rules and took a candlestick up to his room. Awaking after midnight to find their bed, mattress, and bedclothes in flames, he and his fellow apprentice “did start up and pissed out the fier as well as they could.” On another occasion, in bed with his wife and newborn daughter, Wallington himself woke up to find his hair on fire from a candle that had burned through its wire frame and fallen onto him.”
Halfnotes — my speculation would be that she is having difficulty keeping in tune on her single tone when the other voices have moving lines against hers. Especially in the event that the other parts are dissonant with this pitch. It takes familiarity with how the other parts react to your own pitch against these variety of pitches.
The best way to undermine a soloist or section leader is to play a bit sharp in the underlying harmonies which the soloist/leader is then forced to tune against.
Well you might ask why anyone would do this? In her case inexperience but in mine? Callow youth and in my defence, only in rehearsal. This is what practical jokes look like to musicians.
Queen Dollalola: (Though I already half seas over am) If the capacious goblet overflow With arrack-punch - 'fore George! I'll see it out; Of run and brandy I'll not taste a drop. King Arthur: Though rack, in punch, eight shillings be a quart, And rum and brandy be no more than six, Rather than quarrel you shall have you will.
Not that it is REALLY that important but as one can fart all day but one cannot s-- or f--k all day wouldn't not giving a fart be giving less care as one would have a greater supply? It certainly takes less effort.
My hellebores in Toronto are presently beginning to flower. They face north so it can be a bitter cold and well below freezing. They are beautiful and they are hardy.
Also, it sounds like the office was big enough for dancing. I can imagine the pounding would have really kept the neighbours up if it had been in his home.
Comments
About Friday 5 July 1667
Gerald Berg • Link
I am with you on this Louise. Only Nan is now married and so presumably no longer a 'whore' whereas Sam is and remains a whoremonger.
About Sunday 30 June 1667
Gerald Berg • Link
"...and troubled that Creed did see so much of my dalliance, though very little." Good thing SP is a good judge of what is "fit time and place". Otherwise Creed might have had a real "raree-show" to talk about!
About Friday 28 June 1667
Gerald Berg • Link
A horse can gallop for around 2 miles before being fatigued. Unlikely to be galloping while pulling a coach even though John Ford films indicate otherwise!
About Wednesday 26 June 1667
Gerald Berg • Link
Herman Hupfeld wrote 'As Time Goes By' not Louis Armstrong.
About Thursday 20 June 1667
Gerald Berg • Link
How old is Nell?
About Sunday 2 June 1667
Gerald Berg • Link
Nearly blind from the work what does Pepys do? Read a book!
About Monday 27 May 1667
Gerald Berg • Link
Pepys behaviour is not so strange as Mensur is still practised today-- albeit with better protection. One thinks of Franz Boas - father of modern anthropology and of the well scarred face!
MENSUR: Academic fencing (German akademisches Fechten) or Mensur is the traditional kind of fencing practiced by some student corporations (Studentenverbindungen) in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Latvia, Estonia, and, to a minor extent, in Belgium, Lithuania, and Poland. It is a traditional, strictly regulated épée/rapier fight between two male members of different fraternities with sharp weapons. The German technical term Mensur (from Latin, dimension) in the 16th century referred to the specified distance between each of the fencers
About Thursday 23 May 1667
Gerald Berg • Link
I am imagining that Mrs. Daniels thought it would be "safe" seeing the man in his home. Instead, it seems to have inflamed him recklessly. What Freud have to say about it all!
About Monday 13 May 1667
Gerald Berg • Link
War of the Pacific aka The Guano Wars. Tristan Jones in The Incredible Voyage (1978) recounts taking his sailboat up to Lake Titicaca and so becoming the first ocean going vessel to dock in Bolivia since that war. He was very well received by the Bolivian Yacht Club. At the same time he noticed some members were Nazi Kreigsmariners.
About Tuesday 7 May 1667
Gerald Berg • Link
Shrinking out of the collar. A ox is yoked, a horse is collared.
I think Carcasse is suppose to be the collar. To my mind this implies making some people responsible for having Carcasse appointed to the NB. Pen manages to shrink away from this 'collar of responsibility' for either Carcasse's hire or his subsequent behaviour. Bruckner cannot shrink from it.
About Monday 6 May 1667
Gerald Berg • Link
TF, one almost needs an update on Berwick post Brexit! Which side did they choose and how do they feel about Scotland now?
About Monday 22 April 1667
Gerald Berg • Link
" I did pay his coat for him. " I read "coat" as "cost" as he just travelled to and from Mercer's.
About Sunday 21 April 1667
Gerald Berg • Link
...but contrarily, that I am almost ashamed to be seen in a hackney, and therefore if I can have the conveniency...
Ashamed? I feel shame therefore I can have conveniency? Doesn't quite resolve for me.
Perhaps ashamed means embarrassment?
About Wednesday 3 April 1667
Gerald Berg • Link
A Day at Home in Early Modern England: Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500–1700
by Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art/Yale University Press, 311 pp., $75.00
Got this from Far Dabhoiwala review in the NYRB:
“Enclosed chimney flues remained a novel and somewhat precarious technology. When, in 1626, the London woodturner Nehemiah Wallington tried to improve his kitchen by installing one, the entire gable end of his house collapsed, and all three chimneys fell in. This was one reason why heated chambers remained a rare luxury. Another was probably the perpetual danger of fire, especially at night. Being able to light the house after dark was a sign of middling status, but unguarded candles were a constant concern. On the evening of July 4, 1629, Wallington’s apprentice Obadiah Seeley disobeyed the house rules and took a candlestick up to his room. Awaking after midnight to find their bed, mattress, and bedclothes in flames, he and his fellow apprentice “did start up and pissed out the fier as well as they could.” On another occasion, in bed with his wife and newborn daughter, Wallington himself woke up to find his hair on fire from a candle that had burned through its wire frame and fallen onto him.”
About Tuesday 2 April 1667
Gerald Berg • Link
Halfnotes — my speculation would be that she is having difficulty keeping in tune on her single tone when the other voices have moving lines against hers. Especially in the event that the other parts are dissonant with this pitch. It takes familiarity with how the other parts react to your own pitch against these variety of pitches.
The best way to undermine a soloist or section leader is to play a bit sharp in the underlying harmonies which the soloist/leader is then forced to tune against.
Well you might ask why anyone would do this? In her case inexperience but in mine? Callow youth and in my defence, only in rehearsal. This is what practical jokes look like to musicians.
About Thursday 28 March 1667
Gerald Berg • Link
Great commentary all. Thanks!
This is Liz's brother right? She has no interest, say, worry....?
Spoilers anyone?
About Tuesday 26 March 1667
Gerald Berg • Link
Queen Dollalola:
(Though I already half seas over am)
If the capacious goblet overflow
With arrack-punch - 'fore George! I'll see it out;
Of run and brandy I'll not taste a drop.
King Arthur:
Though rack, in punch, eight shillings be a quart,
And rum and brandy be no more than six,
Rather than quarrel you shall have you will.
Henry Fielding: Tom Thumb the Great 1725
About Saturday 9 March 1666/67
Gerald Berg • Link
Not that it is REALLY that important but as one can fart all day but one cannot s-- or f--k all day wouldn't not giving a fart be giving less care as one would have a greater supply? It certainly takes less effort.
About Wednesday 30 January 1666/67
Gerald Berg • Link
I did not know he went after Mercer! Is this new?
My hellebores in Toronto are presently beginning to flower. They face north so it can be a bitter cold and well below freezing. They are beautiful and they are hardy.
About Thursday 24 January 1666/67
Gerald Berg • Link
Also, it sounds like the office was big enough for dancing. I can imagine the pounding would have really kept the neighbours up if it had been in his home.