tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post7240404441484568536..comments2023-05-24T23:33:57.516+10:00Comments on My Unwelcome Stranger: "A fragment of her soul" 1Denis Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-87645069461519272482012-08-31T18:54:27.606+10:002012-08-31T18:54:27.606+10:00Oh, we have that every Friday night before the foo...Oh, we have that every Friday night before the footy. That or fish and chips.Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-6941027315928421412012-08-30T21:03:35.680+10:002012-08-30T21:03:35.680+10:00My husband has always admired my total recall of t...My husband has always admired my total recall of the details of all meals we've eaten - but now that's fading (so now I have to resort to making the dishes up, which is sometimes better, as I can recount tales of even more delicious things than were actually available and, since he doesn't remember, he usually believes me [pan-fried larks' tongues on a bed of deep-sea, tamari-seared sea cucumber strained even his credulity])zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-91092998672559544792012-08-30T09:06:06.373+10:002012-08-30T09:06:06.373+10:00I say from that comment there never was a kid more...I say from that comment there never was a kid more ready to tackle either Patsy or the infuriating Norman Gunston mum.<br /><br />What's annoying me now is the impossible task of trying to recall how I met Sappho. This lack of short term memory recall that's descended on me is <i>so</i> frustrating. It's an absolute blank.<br /><br />PS I have my suspicions about the identity of the mother.Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-45387045541508497342012-08-30T08:58:03.566+10:002012-08-30T08:58:03.566+10:00That's a noble thought and I'm aware that ...That's a noble thought and I'm aware that you go around parts of Europe with a facility for speaking unpronounceable languages with lots of zeds in them, but I'm ashamed to say nothing was further from my mind. If a perfectly good translator in 1907 managed to get a version into English in a style I love, I am far too lazy to reinvent Lesbos and Mitylene of c.600BCE in my own image. [What could be a more romantic name than Mitylene?]<br /><br />You failed to take into account my sloth. I had enough trouble with Sanskrit, Hindi and Bengali to try something that's all Greek to me. Ancient Greek at that!Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-45826112051374835292012-08-29T20:22:48.181+10:002012-08-29T20:22:48.181+10:00And, of course, your ambition is to read her in th...And, of course, your ambition is to read her in the original?zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-28019297556033613392012-08-29T20:21:30.105+10:002012-08-29T20:21:30.105+10:00I decided a small relative of mine was quite cleve...I decided a small relative of mine was quite clever when, aged about 4, she remarked, 'Mother & Son [Ruth Cracknell an elderly mother, Garry Macdonald, her son] and Absolutely Fabulous [why such a young child was allowed to watch it, I can't imagine - I blame the mother] are so similar aren't they?' 'Are they?' I asked the diminutive TV critic. 'Yes, of course, they are - they're both about sensible children and stupid parents'. Thank you, by the way, for introducing me to Sappho.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.com