Wednesday, 28 March 2012

On a more serious note...

I am sorry, I really have nothing to say here. I'm fresh out of ideas, and frankly, I just don't care about this blog anymore.  Again I'm sorry to let down all of my adoring fans, but this was inevitable.  I would now like to plug my upcoming novel titled The Fantabulous Phantasmagorical Adventures of Bob...the Alien...From the Future.

sincerely me.
May 18, 2014

Post-
Prophetic
Muse...

ANd
     in
      we go.
Today, I attempt to create an introduction to an anglo-saxon versification for school.  I will use alliteration frequently, 4 accentuated syllables per line, and kennings.  You may be wondering what kennings are.

A kenning (Old Norse: kenning, Modern Icelandic pronunciation: [cʰɛnːiŋk]) is a type of literary trope, specifically circumlocution, in the form of a compound (usually two words, often hyphenated) that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun. Kennings are strongly associated with Old Norse and later Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon poetry. For example, Old Norse poets might replace sverð, the regular word for “sword”, with a more abstract compound such as “wound-hoe” (Egill Skallagrímsson: Höfuðlausn 8), or a genitive phrase such as randa íss “ice of shields” (Einarr Skúlason: ‘Øxarflokkr’ 9). The term kenning has been applied by modern scholars to similar figures of speech in other languages too, especially Old English
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a good book.
I digress.

I'm actually looking forward to writing this "epic" because a couple of months ago, I wrote the introduction to an epic poem; so it might make this whole thing a little easier.

It starts out with a thing that is a man who is a prince ruling over some unknown land only known to him and the people he princes over; and he decides to get off his ass and walk north a few dozen kilometres.  He's searching for a supposedly godlike figure called "The Mother" who resides in a motherly shack on top of a tall maternal mountain.  Notice the lack of fathers, I tried to avoid the father-figure-God Connection, which is so overused and unoriginal.  So yeah, no fathers; except the prince who has a son who is a father, which makes his father a grand-father who fathered a son who's looking for his mother in a shack.  Wait, I have that wrong-I don't like to get stuck on particulars, all that matters is the introduction, which is really interesting, and I do not have mother issues.
-Segue-
He spat hoarsely through his nose which tickled the back of his throat soaking his moustache in mucus brushing his oily hair back fonze-like, with seedy eyes gazing at make-up and females.

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This thing is now done
Good day.

2 comments:

  1. Well at least I did not have to ignore a whole paragraph because I did not want to stick the whole thing into a translator.

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  2. Look at all this english

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