View From The Northern Wall: What Happened

Thursday, April 30, 2009

What Happened

Too many extra things to do, a little too long at work, then some service work, and I had to look after my renter's cats, nice guys, Roger Ramjet, Hero Of Our Nation, and Samuel. I hope I will post tonight

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L.April 30, 2009 at 7:55 AM
What great cat names:) Have a good day.
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christopherApril 30, 2009 at 9:41 AM
Yes. Good cat names. I find many cat people get highly creative about cat names. Then there is the instruction given in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, where every cat has three names, one so secret that only the cat knows its own name.
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The chicken crossed the road. That's poultry in motion.

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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