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[dcseain]

Rules:

1. Leave a comment by saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Something random. You are not obligated.
2. I’ll respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better. If I already know you well, expect the questions may be a little more intimate.
3. You’ll update your blog/LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You’ll include this explanation and an offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you’ll ask them five questions.

(Of course, if you choose to participate, 4 and 5 are entirely optional.)

Here are utforsker's questions for me:

1. Does your "dry mustard, salt, pepper, horseradish mustard, pickles, pickle brine, mayo, hot sauce, and veggie broth" work as well with Nayonaise?
   • I'm sure it would, though using Nayonaise with eggs rather defeats the purpose, doesn't it. If i were using Nayonaise, i'd sub tofu and herbs/spices for the egg.
2. Please direct me to a good reference for "the concept of literary archetypes". I endeavor to grok.
   • An etymological definition
   • Here's a basic explanation
   • Wikipedia's article an Archetypes muddies literary ones with Jungian ones, IMHO, but at the same time, they have similarities and continuities.
   • Theatre Stock Characters are related
   • I'll research a decent book on the topic for you, which will require a library trip next week, as i've not found a satisfactory online source.
3. With how many penpals do you currently exchange correspondence?
   • From middle school through the mid-90's, 4, all by post.
   • Today, via email and IM mostly, about 12, including 2 of the original 4
4. When and how have you met Jailbait?
   • In i think it was 1988, at LUMSFS at the Bob's Big Boy in New Carrollton, MD, he plopped down aross from me in a booth, and gleefully said, "X is for Xerxes, devoured by mice!". I had him repeat himself. Again, and an explanation ensued. And so it was that i came to know JB, and t'was thusly that i learned of the Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies, and that i embarked on a lifetime of collecting abecedaria.
   • And this year, i'm finally making it to Baitcon! :D
5. Please describe your ideal garden.
   • My ideal garden would be large - 4 or 5 hectares. A half hectare would be dedicated to vegetables, probably behind a hedge off to the right as viewed from the back of the house.
     
     There would be a boxwood labyrinth, probably hedged with trees and azaelas. Pretty, shaded, calming. That would be far from the vegetables, as hedges house things that eat veggies. The remainder would have at least a hectare of woodland runing through it continuously, with formal gardnes, not necessarily fancy ones, that change as one walks around bends - hedges, shrubs, and what forming visual barriers setting up 'rooms'.
     
     There'd be a river or some creeks running through part, as what's a garden without some weeping willows under which to picnic languorously. There would be a moon garden, with tobacco and magniolia grandifloae and other white, night-scenting things, a resonable distance from the house.
     
     It should be laid out such that the whole is not visible from the house, that there be surprises. Benches and tables would be scattered around for rest, contemplation, reading, and dining and what. Some yew need must be scattered about as appropriate. There would be some meadows, of course, with a tree here or there to better frame the views.
   • /stream of consciousness

Comments

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Scotch, Irish, Welsh, Breton, or other?

[dragonsea]

Irish. My favorite song is Ayub's Song by Afro-Celt Sound System, and its sung in Irish.

Welsh and Breton aren't in Goidelic branch of the Celtic language where Scotch, Irish and Manx are. They're in the Brythonic branch, with Cornish and some extinct languages.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

My bad. I find this site (http://www.englishirishdictionary.com/dictionary) useful, it provides common phrases and declensions as well. Dowside, it's word-, rather than phrase-based.

D'oh. Just realized my literalism has bit me again. Sigh. :)