tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8791622765284110331..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: InUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-28767838395783791742011-10-08T04:54:50.665-07:002011-10-08T04:54:50.665-07:00Oops, that's Quae Nocent, Docent.
What hurts,...Oops, that's Quae Nocent, Docent.<br /><br />What hurts, teaches.<br /><br />Hmm.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-42841060585721167832011-10-08T03:54:49.453-07:002011-10-08T03:54:49.453-07:00Many thanks for that, Tom.
Artur.Many thanks for that, Tom.<br /><br />Artur.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34485279154748126672011-10-07T08:42:18.846-07:002011-10-07T08:42:18.846-07:00Que Nocent, Docent. If the shoe pinches, one must ...Que Nocent, Docent. If the shoe pinches, one must be learning something.<br /><br />(Get bigger shoes.)<br /><br />(But never wear them when mentioning love or death inside a house.. tiptoes and whispers for that. Sssh, there, Leviathan.)<br /><br />Downpours, nocency -- the in<br /><br />escapable<br /><br />grey white rain cloud<br /><br />carried forward this moment...<br /><br />Nocent (causing injury, harmful) seems to have been common as far down the tree as Late Middle English, when calling something hurtful by its proper name seems to have gone on at least as frequently as flattering it and hoping for improvement. A guilty person (1447), a criminal (1566): blatant examples of the nocent walking among the (well, relatively) innocent. Latin noxa, harm; Greek nekus, a corpse; stem words beginning nek and nex having to do with destruction, perishing; harking back to the Sanskrit naç, to be lost, disappear. A noxious word family from early doors, with all its noisome, ill-tempered, unkempt, scrappy little hobgoblin cousins -- Necromancy, Internecine, Pernicious, Obnoxious and Nuisance -- never far from the broken gate banging randomly in the historical lexical night.<br /><br />While on words, I couldn't resist the sound of water on small rocks or pebbles in "ressac" (surf, undertow, from brisants, breakers) -- top photo attribution).<br /><br />Ssssh...<br /><br />As I recall Chelsea owed its name to chessil, or some such hoary onomatopoetic term for the sound of water lapping upon small stones. <br /><br />Chelsea's sands were indeed legendary, Ben Johnson even introducing them as a figure for the countlessness of... well, shall we say kisses...in translating Catullus.<br /><br />Or rather perhaps, bringing him home to dinner.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59438309549273522752011-10-07T07:28:54.268-07:002011-10-07T07:28:54.268-07:00Tom Clark,
I do love checking out what you'v...Tom Clark, <br /><br />I do love checking out what you've posted each new day. For some reason this one put me immediately in mind of Whitman's "I swear I will never mention love or death inside a house...."<br /><br />A faithful reader (in pixels & print),<br /><br />David GrahamDavid Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06448278560900184834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-41360747828970121802011-10-07T07:20:48.070-07:002011-10-07T07:20:48.070-07:00What made you want to look up nocent? Please tell ...<i>What made you want to look up nocent? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).</i><br /><br />I must say I like this feature ("Hobbes, Leviathan", said one person).<br /><br />An evocative poem, Tom. Very nice to be inside, but I think I'll go out again. I love the wind in the sunshine.<br /><br />Artur.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83960082106435932402011-10-07T04:58:45.607-07:002011-10-07T04:58:45.607-07:00This is really superb. Thanks for the poem and th...This is really superb. Thanks for the poem and the pictures. We'll be seeing Chatham in Cape Cod this weekend. We're driving there for our 13th reunion of the "Wuhan 6," the name someone gave to our China adoption group in 1998. I'm very much looking forward to the ocean and I'm pleased to have had this preview. Online Webster's Dictionary just asked me why is was looking up "nocent." I gave them your name and the reference to "In." CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-10672630591634940652011-10-07T00:42:50.019-07:002011-10-07T00:42:50.019-07:00nocent of all harm
What an as-a-matter-of-fact en...<i>nocent of all harm</i><br /><br />What an as-a-matter-of-fact ending. At the same time I find it very liberating!<br /><br />Vazabam,<br />That is such a great comment.adityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19416580302515054422011-10-06T14:16:46.375-07:002011-10-06T14:16:46.375-07:00Tom,
Yes indeed (here too, in fact) ---
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gr...Tom,<br /><br />Yes indeed (here too, in fact) ---<br /><br />10.6<br /><br />grey white rain cloud against invisible<br />top of ridge, drops falling onto bricks <br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> carried forward this moment,<br /> in which it before it<br /><br /> apart from “practical” work,<br /> reflects, “objective”<br /><br />silver of sunlight reflected in channel,<br />sunlit cloud in blue of sky above pointSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59137275973546857712011-10-06T11:30:45.358-07:002011-10-06T11:30:45.358-07:00moving
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(of t...<i>moving</i><br />in-<br /><br />escapable<br />in<br /><br />credible<br />evidence<br /><br />(of the thing in question)vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.com