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amoamaIf reincarnation is a thing then I sally forth to suggest that a good option for Christopher Marlowe's return was Freddy Mercury. (just nod and smile at me because I love the idea) [it comes of reading Ros Barber's sensational The Marlowe Papers while old Queen concerts play on bbc4. I recommend the former, the latter is purely coincidental.]
You know that thing where you mistake lines for years and get it terribly wrong?! I just realised that about the bit in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) when the Prince of Wales tells Percy he might have to exercise is DROIT DE SEIGNEUR and steal Marguerite away. I always heard something more like "quoi de ce nuir" [I know mostly not real words!!] and assumed it was Frenchish for "my certain special way I can't fully describe" (*facepalms*). Certainly I did not suppose it meant "my right as feudal lord to sleep with your wife!" SHOCKED AND APPALLED. Lol, so silly. Especially because I've seen the film countless times and sometimes even use my made up phrase in speech and never thought about how it didn't mean anything the way I was saying it and how the real thing actually meant something very bad! I kind of want my phrase back!!
I feel like I need a third thing to make this post more list-like and less random, so to update you, I joined a choir! I've been twice and really like it. We're singing Vaughan Williams, Dona Nobis Pacem and Elgar, For the Fallen (2014, sigh). We're singing them around remembrance day in the Abbey here. Should be lovely. I love them both although Dona Nobis Pacem is proving tricksy in the execution! It is hard but the words are mostly Walt Whitman and when we get it right, they soar.
Today the conductor asked, "Are we a choir that breathes whenever we want?" (The answer apparently being "no we are not"!) I have a long way to go though I fear to marshal my breathing to his will.
You know that thing where you mistake lines for years and get it terribly wrong?! I just realised that about the bit in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) when the Prince of Wales tells Percy he might have to exercise is DROIT DE SEIGNEUR and steal Marguerite away. I always heard something more like "quoi de ce nuir" [I know mostly not real words!!] and assumed it was Frenchish for "my certain special way I can't fully describe" (*facepalms*). Certainly I did not suppose it meant "my right as feudal lord to sleep with your wife!" SHOCKED AND APPALLED. Lol, so silly. Especially because I've seen the film countless times and sometimes even use my made up phrase in speech and never thought about how it didn't mean anything the way I was saying it and how the real thing actually meant something very bad! I kind of want my phrase back!!
I feel like I need a third thing to make this post more list-like and less random, so to update you, I joined a choir! I've been twice and really like it. We're singing Vaughan Williams, Dona Nobis Pacem and Elgar, For the Fallen (2014, sigh). We're singing them around remembrance day in the Abbey here. Should be lovely. I love them both although Dona Nobis Pacem is proving tricksy in the execution! It is hard but the words are mostly Walt Whitman and when we get it right, they soar.
Today the conductor asked, "Are we a choir that breathes whenever we want?" (The answer apparently being "no we are not"!) I have a long way to go though I fear to marshal my breathing to his will.
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