© Gunnar Tómasson New Year’s Eve 31 December 2017 I. The Ride of the Valkyries Vefr Darraðar (Brennu-Njálssaga, Ch. 157 – M) Translation in Appendix 569741 Föstumorgininn varð sá atburðr á Katanesi, at maðr hét Dörruðr, er út gekk. Hann sá at menn riðu tólf saman til dyngju nökkurrar ok hurfu þar allir. Hann gekk […]
©Gunnar Tómasson 29 December 2017 Background Francis Bacon and Don Quixote de la Mancha A „It is impossible to help but notice now and then that Armado [of Shakespeare’s ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’] is extraordinarily like Don Quixote in his consistent overestimate of himself and in his insistence on imagining himself a superhuman storybook hero. […] […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 28 December 2017 From the most able, to him that can but spell: There you are number´d. I. Prisca Theologia (Construction G. T.) 32551 7521 = Prisca Theologia Foreuer, O LORD (Psalm 119:89, KJB 1611) 6862 = Foreuer, O LORD, 13070 = thy word is setled in heauen. Alpha 666 = […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 27 December 2017 Part ONE I. Snorri Sturluson – Advice to Young Poets¹ (Skáldskaparmál, Ch. 8) 197920 16349 = En þetta er nú at segja ungum skáldum, 15868 = þeim er girnast at nema mál skáldskapar 16723 = ok heyja sér orðfjölða með fornum heitum 15251 = eða girnast þeir at kunna […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 26 December 2017 I. This we have to tell, for this is history. (Les Misérables, Book Twelve, Ch. VI) 1137823 In these hours of waiting what did they do? This we have to tell, for this is history. While the men were making cartridges and the women lint, while a large pot, full […]
© Gunnar Tómasson Christmas Day 25 Desember 2017 Prologue The Seventh Day of Creation is a past, present and future period in the passage through life of every child born into the world. The Nativity Story is that of every such child born of the union of Man and Woman with Consciousness – a spark […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 23 December 2017 I. Turne, Hell-hound turne. – Macbeth slaine. (Macbeth, Act V, Sc. vii) 1266209 5476 = Enter Macbeth. Macbeth 15484 = They haue tied me to a stake, I cannot flye, 21429 = But Beare-like I must fight the course. What’s he 18595 = That was not borne of […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 23 December 2017 Isaiah 29:15 Woe unto them that seeke deepe to hide their counsel from the LORD *** I. The LORD: World Soul and Law of Moses (Construction G. T.) 409918 105113 = Platonic World Soul 304805 = Torah – Number of Letters 409918 II. Conspiracie, Hide Thy Monstrous Visage […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 22 December 2017 And thou shalt be brought downe. I. And thy speach shall whisper out of the dust. (Isaiah Ch. 29, KJB 1611) 1603819 29:1 23257 = Woe to Ariel, to Ariel the citie where Dauid dwelt: 17628 = adde yee yeere to yeere; let them kill sacrifices. 29:2 12921 = […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 22 December 2017 Murther most foule, as in the best it is. I. But this most foule, strange, and unnaturall. (Hamlet, Act I, Sc. v. First Folio, 1623) 1658168 9462 = Enter Ghost and Hamlet. Hamlet 22112 = Where wilt thou lead me? speak; Ile go no further. Ghost 2883 = Marke […]
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