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aside: english major geek

Published by reverendmother 1 year, 1 month ago

Am I the only one who, when adjusting my child’s too-long pants, says, “I grow old… I grow old… I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled”?

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1 Keith Oct 24th, 2007 at 8:35 am

Scarily, no.

I also sing “I put a hat on you… because you’re mine” like Screamin’ Jay Hawkins.
2 reverendmother Oct 24th, 2007 at 8:44 am

It’s a comfort, actually.
3 Libby Gruner Oct 24th, 2007 at 9:43 am

nope, you’re not!
4 towanda Oct 24th, 2007 at 6:42 pm

Nope!
5 Sarah Oct 24th, 2007 at 8:33 pm

This is a new one to me. Never heard it before - was raised in NW Ohio - might it be a regional thing? I like it and when/if I ever have grands (IN NO RUSH THANK YOU) will add it to my list of grandmam sayings.
6 Keith Oct 24th, 2007 at 8:53 pm

For Sarah:

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
7 reverendmother Oct 24th, 2007 at 9:22 pm

Yeah, it’s a pretty dreary source for kid material, but I just can’t help it.

And I get a certain pleasure from imagining the day they’re sitting in English class and first discover that poem:

“Hey…!”
8 Ruth Oct 25th, 2007 at 6:02 am

When you stir a cup of coffee, do you ever say: I have measured out my life in coffeespoons.
9 reverendmother Oct 25th, 2007 at 8:40 am

Yes. Yes I do.

And in college, when a friend of mine said, “Let us go then,” and my roommate and I answered in unison, “…you and I,” I knew she was a ~~fellow geek~~ kindred spirit.
10 Keith Oct 25th, 2007 at 12:27 pm

If I were still, you know, single and all that, I think I’d try to get some people together to go out on Halloween as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

You know, somebody dressed as yellow smoke, somebody else with their trousers rolled. A couple of women with no costume who just come and go, talking of Michelangelo.

I get to be the ragged claws.
11 reverendmother Oct 25th, 2007 at 12:32 pm

I would call “mermaid singing each to each” were it not for the aversion to Disney princess and anything resembling same.
12 Keith Oct 25th, 2007 at 1:30 pm

Yeah, but you have two little mermaids who could sing each to each.

I mean, as long as the singing consisted of SHE’S TOUCHING ME!
13 Mary Beth Oct 25th, 2007 at 3:16 pm

Indeed, no. See my post of October 17…

http://marybethbutler.typepad.com/terrapin_station/2007/10/a-little-presin.html
14 Kathryn Oct 26th, 2007 at 3:14 am

And I get a certain pleasure from imagining the day they’re sitting in English class and first discover that poem:

“Hey…!

Happened to me with Hattie Gandhi a few years ago, after I’d brought mine up on exactly the same lines - total joy But do you agree that “I do not think that they will sing to me” is the saddest line in the English language? It makes me weepy just writing it here and now.
15 Sarah Oct 26th, 2007 at 11:57 am

Must refresh my memory, long dormant, of that poem - thanks for the chance to dust off!
16 Sarah Oct 26th, 2007 at 12:06 pm

And while still thinking - my mom was an English major of the highest order, and while she said lots of songs and sayings from literature, and read voraciously all her life (she was reading the HP series way before I did), I don’t think poetry was her first love, so that might explain it!

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