Let us go and make our visit

[sovay]

Rabbit, rabbit! An assorted collection of links does not make a day (which mostly contained grocery shopping and the next-to-last performance of the Post-Meridian Radio Players' Night of the Living Dead prefaced with Ghost Hunt), but it does make a post.

R.I.P. George Thornton, the man who blew up the whale. MetaFilter has already taken care of the inevitable jokes about his funeral arrangements.

Have the first nine illustrated pages of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Comments indicate the artist is already being encouraged to Kickstart the rest of the poem, which I am glad to see; I love the linework and the conceit of using Eliot's own likeness, even if that is a far more adorable fog than I ever envisioned on my own time. Bonus: OH MY GOD BISHOUNEN YEATS.

Have a gigantic searchable database of English folksongs!

We now return to your regularly scheduled staring at boxes and wondering where to unpack. On the uncomplicated, heartwarming side: postcards arrived this afternoon from gaudior in Turkey and strange_selkie in D.C. They're on the refrigerator. We knew what to do with those.

Comments

A patron saint of sorts

[rinue]

I have always assumed that the blowing up of the whale wasn't a plan in the sense of "intended to succeed" as much as a man realizing he had a whale and a whale-like volume of dynamite available and might never again get such an opportunity. Thus Thornton's spirit lives on in my young cousin Max, and I imagine many such boys.

[sovay]

a man realizing he had a whale and a whale-like volume of dynamite available and might never again get such an opportunity. Thus Thornton's spirit lives on in my young cousin Max, and I imagine many such boys.

I am all for the realization of such opportunities. Amen.

[zdenka]

*promptly bookmarks gigantic searchable database of English folksongs*

Thank you; that is relevant to my interests.

[ookpik.livejournal.com]

Ditto, and ditto. Thank you!

[sovay]

Ditto, and ditto. Thank you!

You're welcome! See above/below. Also, that much anything in one place is just pretty cool.

[sovay]

Thank you; that is relevant to my interests.

You are welcome! I thought it might be the case for many people I know.

[gwynnega]

Those are some excellent links. I love the illustrated poems, especially the Yeats!

[sovay]

I love the illustrated poems, especially the Yeats!

I don't agree with all the illustrations—although I love Rimbaud in ligne claire—but I am very glad that someone is trying the experiment. I'd love to see him take on The Waste Land.

[spatch]

OH MY GOD BISHOUNEN YEATS.

I THOUGHT WE LIKED THE INTERNET

[sovay]

I THOUGHT WE LIKED THE INTERNET

WE SO LOVED THE INTERNET WE SENT IT OUR ONLY PRE-RAPHAELITE SYMBOLIST MODERNIST PINCE-NEZ WEARING POET.

[spatch]

THAT WHOSOEVER READETH HIM SHALL NOT COMPREHEND BUT INSTEAD POST IN ALL CAPS

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Oh god, the chibis.

[sovay]

Oh god, the chibis.

There's just no way to warn someone about that.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I love his Keats.

[sovay]

I love his Keats.

I hope what he does next is more Eliot, but I'd love to see what other poets he's drawn to. If he sticks with the Symbolists, I could be very happy.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Ooh, searchable database, wonderful! And wow, the art style for that manga! I'm trying to think what classic manga it reminds me of....

[sovay]

And wow, the art style for that manga! I'm trying to think what classic manga it reminds me of....

I don't have the visual familiarity to tell for myself, but I was very impressed.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The way of drawing the eyes makes me think of The Rose of Versailles

[larryhammer]

Artist's notes claims early CLAMP, and there's definitely that in Yeats himself, but there's something else at work in the woman that I haven't yet identified. Someone classic shoujo is a good bet.

---L.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

I eventually realized the banner across the top was the-evening-spread-out-against-the-sky, but when I first looked at it I thought it was Browning's 'Confession.'

Also, Emile Nelligan gets my vote for most Bishounen poet, but the artist has drawn him in a more Will Eisner style.

[sovay]

Also, Emile Nelligan gets my vote for most Bishounen poet, but the artist has drawn him in a more Will Eisner style.

I don't actually know who I would vote Most Bishounen Poet. One of the Romantics, probably, or someone in the Decadent movement, but they were seriously competing with each other for a while there.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

I'm just saying, Nelligan looked like this. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Emile_Nelligan.JPG)

[sovay]

I'm just saying, Nelligan looked like this.

That hair impresses me.

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

You are right. That is an unreasonably adorable fog. Thank you for sharing!

[sovay]

You are right. That is an unreasonably adorable fog. Thank you for sharing!

You want to scritch it behind the ears! And it doesn't even have any ears! It's fog!

[larryhammer]

Not just bishie Yeats but CHIBI BISHIE YEATS.

---L.

[sovay]

Not just bishie Yeats but CHIBI BISHIE YEATS.

WITH HIS TINY LITTLE FLOPPY NECKTIE.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

So, would that also be CHIBI MAUD GONNE?

[larryhammer]

IT WOULD.

[sovay]

IT WOULD.

ASDKHJFDLKASFHLKGJ

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the links!

The Prufrock is incredible, and I like the Yeats as well.

And that database of folksongs looks extremely useful.

Good luck with the unpacking, and I'm glad for the uncomplicated and heartwarming part.

[sovay]

And that database of folksongs looks extremely useful.

I haven't delved into it yet; I am wary of timesink.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I haven't delved into it yet; I am wary of timesink.

I'm chary of timesink as well, but I've already used it to find a text of "The Bonny Black Hare" that's not Fairport's version, because I wanted a character to quote a line of it and decided it were best I used a text that's well out of copyright, just for safety's sake. So it's been right useful to me already, and I thank you for it again.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

THE CAT IN THE YEATS POEM IS LITERALLY ONE OF THE MASCOT CATS FROM SAILOR MOON

THERE IS NO WAY TO COPE WITH THAT

[sovay]

THERE IS NO WAY TO COPE WITH THAT

ASDKHJFDLKASFHLKGJ

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

OMG database. I suspect I may have just found something more addictive than the Choral Public Domain Library. <3 <3

[sovay]

I suspect I may have just found something more addictive than the Choral Public Domain Library.

You're welcome.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it George VI who saw the Flying Dutchman? How could you not like him? He was a total family man. Sort of like Nicholas II without the ineptitude and slaughter.

[sovay]

Wasn't it George VI who saw the Flying Dutchman?

I think that was George V, his father, but it's still a good story.

I am glad you approve of my taste in historical royalty.