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petermorwood · 4 months ago
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Naming of Parts by Henry Reed (1942)
To Alan Mitchell Vixi duellis nuper idoneus Et militavi non sine gloria Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday, We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But today, Today we have naming of parts. Japonica Glistens like coral in all of the neighbouring gardens, And today we have naming of parts. This is the lower sling swivel. And this Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see, When you are given your slings. And this is the piling swivel, Which in your case you have not got. The branches Hold in the gardens their silent, eloquent gestures, Which in our case we have not got. This is the safety-catch, which is always released With an easy flick of the thumb. And please do not let me See anyone using his finger. You can do it quite easy If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms Are fragile and motionless, never letting anyone see Any of them using their finger. And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring. They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt, And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance, Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards, For today we have naming of parts.
I can still remember when, many years ago, this poem turned up in 4th Form English Literature and completely mystified a class of 15-year-old boys because:
Almost none of us had ever seen a military rifle, never mind taken one apart, and the notion that doing so could be even slightly poetic had never crossed our 15-year-old male minds.
Gardens, flowers, bees, poetry and military rifles don't usually turn up this close together in the average 15-year-old male mind.
There's deliberate juxtaposition of contradictory imagery, the contrast of mind-numbing boredom with unfettered imagination, being stuck in a classroom when you want to be somewhere else, and all the other things you're supposed to consider when analysing a poem that may - or may not, you won't know until it's too late - play a role in end-of-term exams.
However hearing it aloud was rather different.
School had a pretty good tape library (radio programmes of plays, speeches etc.) and by an extraordinary fluke this, read in part by poet Henry Reed himself, is the actual recording played to my class.
That was when we realised there are hints and implications in this poem which may indeed turn up in quite a few 15-year-old male minds. They're just not usually discussed in 4th Form English Class.
At least they weren't discussed in mine... :-D
(Like most poems with a distinctive metre, this lends itself to parody. Here's one about cooking...)
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too-antigonish · 6 months ago
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"The best of us never came home..."
-Fred Thursday, S5E2: Cartouche
It's Memorial Day in the US. I was very close to my grandfathers, both of whom did come home. Their experiences—one in the European theater and one in the Pacific—were tame compared to most but affected them for life. The stories they told me have had a big impact on who I am.
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I didn't know that Henry Reed, the poet who wrote "Naming of Parts," (the poem Thursday recites at the end of S5E4: Colours) worked on codes and ciphers at Bletchley Park during WWII. How much more fitting for Endeavour could a poet be!
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The following is a somewhat idiosyncratic recitation of the poem that I really like. Let your ear get used to it and stick with it. It's really moving.
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thedisablednaturalist · 10 months ago
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Im fucking sobbing looking at the new black footed cat at Utah's Hogle zoo
Shes just a fucking baby
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Baby with a 60% successful kill rate
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cubbyhole-for-flea-bee · 5 months ago
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Macaque spent the whole season Big-Damn-Hero-ing and was NOT happy about it xD
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sadclowncentral · 2 months ago
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i helped an older man figure out the picture printing at the drugstore today. he was printing these beautiful pictures of birds he took during his birdwatching adventures. and he printed some extra for me as thanks!!!
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aren't these just breathtaking. i asked him for his name so i could credit him and he said "i better not tell you. what if you remember my name and forget the bird's?" now that's a REAL birdwatcher. locked in.
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look at this!! the European Bee-eater (Merops apiaster) in all its glory! so so so beautiful...
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breq-core · 8 months ago
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"Naming of Parts"
From 'Lessons of the War' by Henry Reed
"Vixi duellis nuper idoneus
Et militavi non sine glori"
Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning,
We shall have what to do after firing. But today,
Today we have naming of parts. Japonica
Glistens like coral in all of the neighboring gardens,
And today we have naming of parts.
This is the lower sling swivel. And this
Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see
When you are given your slings. And this is the piling swivel,
Which in your case you have not got. The branches
Hold in the gardens their silent, eloquent gestures,
Which in our case we have not got.
This is the safety-catch, which is always released
With an easy flick of the thumb. And please do not let me
See anyone using his finger. You can do it quite easily
If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms
Are fragile and motionless, never letting anyone see
Any of them using their finger.
And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this
Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it
Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this
Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
They call it easing the Spring.
They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy
If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt,
And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance,
Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom
Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards,
For today we have naming of parts.
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paintedcrows · 18 days ago
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Thinking about that old man
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bigboobyhalo · 1 year ago
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the anger inside of me
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heritageposts · 11 months ago
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large zionist blocklist below
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i've compiled a list of all the blogs positively interacting with the @/israel-palestine-bingo blog
there's more info about how the names were complied under the read more, but just to get an idea of how vile the blog is, i just want to quickly mention that the first prize offered in their pinned post, "eight hours of memi mamtera," is the song used in the viral israeli tiktok trend of kidnapping, humiliating, and torturing palestinians in the west bank.
and the "grand prize," which needs no explanation, is "all of palestine! for free!"
some quick info: all the names here have either approvingly replied to, reblogged from, or liked one or more of @/israel-palestine-bingo's posts. for likes, i've only gathered names that appear under their original posts; mostly ones that have not been reblogged, and some with 2-3 reblogs that have not left the immediate sphere of zionists. i've also made sure that these are blogs who have either liked more than one posts from them, or who frequently reblogs from other zionists.
you can also quickly look through the blog yourself (it doesn't have that many posts), or check out any of the names on the list with a quick 'israel' or 'palestine' in the search bar or their blogs.
there are more screenshots at the end of the posts, including ones showing who made the blog (ani-lo-daredevil / katenotbishop), and the bingo board itself (ashenpumpkin).
blocking tip: fastest way to mass block users (on desktop) is to go to settings -> the blog your blocking them from -> scroll all the way down to 'blocked tumblrs,' and then copy-paste the name your blocking
names listed below in alphabetical order reminder again, block don't engage
2peachy acleverforgery ani-lo-daredevil apollo-enthusiast ashenpumpkin <- credited for making the bingo board, reblogged/liked almost all of their posts. aureatecorvid avi-on-jumblr (main @/clear-what-i-was-seeing) awstheticshit bambahalva bleepiesheepie bluenorther blueredfetch bones-and-crows britneysmeanshirt cannibalism-is-my-love-language captain-navii casavanse celepito chubbybubba ciitrus--fruitz coffeelovinggayidiot da-socks davos-is-the-one-true-king dchan87 disregardenedgnostic elder-millennial-of-zion faggotry-enjoyer fdelopera flowercrownsandfairylights fluffel677 fluffy-art-moss george-lucas-is-god got-chavi icereader12 illegitimatetenenbaum inklingm8 its-hila jewishlivesmatter just-illegal karinhasdacookie
katenotbishop <- the main account of the person running the blog. her sideblog is @/ani-lo-daredevil
kelluinox kingofslush letaot-ze-magniv lingonberryjamistakenwhat lovelyhairedpianist magic-coffee marrymepadfoot marvel-ous-posts masters-puddle <- pornblog mixmangosmangoverse morganas-simp mossadspydolphin multifandermissesanakin nameless370 namiko026 nevleg32 notcrazyiswear oakstar519 perfectlynormalperson psychologeek queerius randomname3 redvodyanoi rhysaka sally006 sbinklebooper scp-1296 shinekocreator <- commented, 'but is this the 8 hour version?' on a post where someone ''won'' the song used in the tiktok torture videos. snakelung sort-of-a-demon soxiyy stuffandatherstuff tearsandice tedious-waffle thebejeweledwatercat the-library-alcove thirdmagic thisgingerhasnosoul timegirl tolaat-bli-toelet <- the person running the bingo blog. mainblog is @/katenotbishop transmascpetewentz tribulation-of-somnolence unexistencerpg viktorrotkiv wanderingmadscientist whiterose-blackrose whitesunlars why5x5
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note: @/tolaat-bli-toelet changed her username to @/ani-lo-daredevil (her main is still @/katenotbishop)
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and from the same post,
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the last post was also reblogged by the creator of the israel-palestine-bingo blog
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cloudstuffs · 5 months ago
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EVERYDAY IS SUNDAY BAYBEEEEEEE
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gggoofiestgoober · 5 months ago
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a trip to the mall
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petermorwood · 4 months ago
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"Naming of Parts" - a parody version.
I posted the original poem a couple of days ago, along with a link to it being read aloud, in part by poet Henry Reed himself.
The website where I found the reading has a section on parodies of Reed's poems, mostly variants of "Naming...", and this one fits in particularly well with Foodie Sunday posts.
I don't know anything about E. V. Milner - who has almost no internet presence - or even when the poem was written, though they seem to have been active in the 1960s.
I have a feeling, from various little clues, that the TV cook who "warms to her theme with ardent, unflagging exuberance" is a restrained (non-libellous) version of Fanny Cradock, a name most US readers and UK ones under A Certain Age probably won't recognise.
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Those who do might draw in a sharp breath between their teeth, because her notorious mistreatment of subordinates, i.e. anyone not her, led to the abrupt collapse of her career and an article some years ago calling her "Gordon Ramsay in a frock". :-P
This article might help, and of course there's a Wikipedia entry.
On with the poem!
Baking of Tarts by E.V. Milner
Today we have Baking of Tarts. Yesterday We had Simple Salads. And a fortnight tomorrow We shall have How to Garnish Cod Cutlets. But today Today we have Baking of Tarts. The viewers Ogle their screens in a flurry of breathless excitement, For today we have Baking of Tarts. This is the plastic mixing bowl. And this Is the rolling-pin and the board, whose use you will see In a moment. And this is the transparent oven Which in your case you have not got. The speaker Warms to her theme with ardent, unflagging exuberance, Which in our case we have not got. This is the strawberry jam which is neatly extracted With a gentle thrust of the spoon. And please do not let me See anyone licking his fingers. It is perfectly easy If you have any jam in your pot. The viewers Are silent and motionless, never letting anyone see Any of them licking their fingers. And this you can see is the lard. The purpose of this Is to prevent the pastry from sticking. We can smear it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this Greasing the tin. And rapidly backwards and forwards The viewers are fumbling for biscuits and spilling their coffee: They call it ruining the carpet. They call it ruining the carpet. It is perfectly easy If your mind is attempting to cope with the cookery expert While your hands are engaged in juggling with saucers and plates And trying meanwhile to secure a reasonable share Of the cheese straws, which in our case we have not got: For today we have Baking of Tarts.
:->
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chocochococoffee · 1 year ago
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what happens when you change your web standards to be only english-speaker inclusive
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aenslem · 6 months ago
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Leverage (2008–2012) & Leverage: Redemption (2021–) x DOCTOR WHO
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zoe-oneesama · 7 months ago
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Maybe if you didn't HIDE all the damn time you wouldn't get CALLED that-!
Episode 53 Part 15 First < Previous > Next Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5 Ep 41, Ep 42, Ep 43, Ep 44 Ep 45, Ep 46, Ep 47, Ep 48, Intermission, Ep 49, Ep 50, Ep 51, Ep 52
No one expects Rabbit FU!
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Bonus:
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This bonus was just for me.
Ko-fi | Patreon
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lovevanpalmer · 8 months ago
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dune part two plot summary
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