View From The Northern Wall: Design by anxiety and sweat

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Design by anxiety and sweat

No post tonight on accounta my brain is fried. Too much design by anxiety and sweat this week...

Kerplop.

5 comments:

Wine and Words said...: Design by anxiety? I sent an e-mail to someone. They said I "sounded" frazzled today and asked, "Can an e-mail have sound?" My answer is yes...for I heard you dripping :)

Peace Christopher; June 23, 2011 8:43 PM
christopher said...: When I first was in this business I was designing by coffee and cigarettes. This is an improvement.; June 24, 2011 4:23 AM
jozien said...: kissing you; June 24, 2011 10:16 AM
christopher said...: *blush*

Thank you; June 24, 2011 11:19 AM
Ghost Dansing said...: it's my own design...; June 24, 2011 5:02 PM

The View From The Northern Wall

Some years ago my poetry took on a mythic flavor and I became a character in my own poems, a mage, "the man of the Northern Wall". This apellation is not completely fictional. My middle name is Noordwal, a Dutch term for north wall, though in current Dutch it mainly means north bank as in riverbank. I was told that an ancestor, a Portugese Jew escaping the Inquisition, settled in a small Dutch town and took this name from where he settled, near the north wall of the town. I have thought for a long time that -wal meant wall, think my mother told me that. A linguist might say that my usage is no longer common, is an older usage, but then the Inquisition happened in Portugal a few centuries ago, right around the time the Moors lost control of the Iberian Peninsula and the Jews lost the modest protection given them by Islam. Now I write as this mage, my poetry persona.

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