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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4I don't understand why you just don't leave the PDs. You obviously have a belief in the electoral system but you can't honestly believe that the PDs are going to change, by staying in the party, even as a vocal minority, you claerly will not achieve the results you want. Just join another party, your efforts and beliefs will be far better rewarded
On slightly more mature consideration I think the Latin translation for "with the coming of Spring" is "ineunte vere." So the title I gave the article above is almost complete nonsense.
Depends on how you say it! I take great delight in the little slips of spelling and grammar and stuff, that we all used to see all the time.
Remember you'd buy a paper, and it would be full of typos, and stuff, depending on how the subeditor, and the copywriter, and the typesetter, and the proofreader had done their jobs. They were the "workers" or at least that's how I seem to remember them being called, who helped make your newspaper. Then along came Dr Prof Knight commander Bill Gates of the British Empire, who proved we didn't need "workers" just something called "spellcheck" instead.
Oh well, great changes were had, in the short space of two years, all the newspapers got proper spelling, and sentances that had formerly been seen at the end of paragraphs to just trailled off tantalisingly wi
Nowadays, if you want to see a proper human "worker" style, spelling error, or split infinitive, or grammatical mistake, you have to "log on" (with the calculus and the maths tables under the desk) to indymedia, where we, let us admit our very conservative about things like that in our very radical and alternative ground breaking wa
The mistakes that creep into wiki pages and translations can be very funny, or even the extra letters that get squeezed into words, or indeed left out. Over here (over there) we sport quite a few, "thinkthanks" for "thinktanks", and the classic "we are more powerful thank we think". (with that lovely little abreviation in modern text messaging protocol argot, the "k" which means "que").
Primroses are all very nice, but the Daffodil "narcissus narcissus", is a true sign of springtime fervour, but do be careful not to plant other little bulbs too close as the sap is in fact poisonous.
I though prefer concrete and crazy paving.
the botanical family "narcissus" covers all types of daffodil, which though pretty, are poisonous, the earlier flowering type is called "narcissus psuedo narcissus", and the later more yellow type is called "narcissus laretta". One of the key love myths of the ancient greeks tells us of the youth "narcissus" who fell in love with his reflection in a pool and was transformed into the flower as a consequence.
Of the many takes on this instructional myth the most known is perhaps the painting by Salvador Dalí (which is available in popular poster format from most movie poster stores) or to see at the Tate Gallery in London. In it the youth is by a trick of Dalíean perspective shown in both human and petrified (literally) egg form with the flower emerging from cracks. In the background the bucolic muses dance near what appears to be a chess board.
http://www.rockover.com.br/letras/blitzkrieg-bop.htm
Oscar Wilde interestingly wrote a short (only one paragraph) version of the myth, which is a charming example of his late creative work after being released from prison. Much of his early work had foccused on Narcissus from a very different angle. He last focussed on the river seeing itself reflected in the eyes of the youth and also what the youth could see behind him. Its a very telling late work on what is a myth of eros, love & decadence.
(significantly if you google for it you get his many earlier narcistic writings by people who have been inspired to write books on them). You'll also see a new type of hybrid daffidil was named after Oscar Wilde in the XX century. Quite a curious legacy.
I'd recommend reading the last narcissus text to people who read books and don't just google.
Myths are a very important part of education, and have not consistently formed a part of cultural language for nothing. In the retelling of myths, be they grecian, roman, early christian, et cetera... we communicate essential truths about human nature and the consequences of human behaviour as well as gardening. Which are the most important secrets that can be "taught".
narcissus pseudo narcissus