Do not adjust your set
I'm still here. Just not much to really blog about, recently. No Colin Firth to titillate my dreams.
We got DSL. It's nice. Faster than dialup, for sure. Still not screaming quick, but certainly better than before.
Today is my second anniversary of being married. Yay me. For the record, relationships are hard work. Sometimes you need a bottle of champagne and a box of Belgian chocolates to reward yourself. Which is what I'll be doing shortly.
I also wanted to share a bit about the book I'm currently reading. It's Myla Goldberg's Bee Season. She has an amazing control over the English language. Her writing is finely crafted prose. Each sentence (except for maybe two, so far) is nearly perfect. I'm not kidding.
Along those Kabbalistic lines, I'll share one of my favorite websites.
The Internet Anagram Server is a great place for fun. Ancient Jewish mystics believed in the perfection of each letter and it's significance in the greater whole of the word of which it was a part. I don't know how much I believe that, but I do know if you anagram your whole name you're guaranteed a few good laughs, if not a name for an email address.
Happy Anagramming. And read Bee Season.
posted by Luminous Phenomena at 9:30 PM
2 Comments:
Congrats on the anniversary.
I think many cultures have viewed language as having some sort of mystical power. When you think about it, language was one of our first technologies, and it has enabled all the other technologies that have followed afterward. Doesn't that seem a little magical when you think about it?
I think writing a spoken word down and making it "permanent" is rather magical. I just don't fully understand the perfection of one letter and it's mystical powers in the larger whole of the word. I've only nominally read about the Kabbalah.
I do think we're hardwired for language. Google the Hyoid Bone, you'll see what I mean.
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