Re: What's the greek word for DANDELION/TARAXACUM?

On Aug 14, 6:13 pm, mb <azyth...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 14, 5:19 pm, Edward Hennessey
....
...and for those with a sharpshooter's eye for a good female mash
line, a quick
read of O. Henry's very short story "Rus in Urbe" has one.

Thanks for the reminder, and forget the mash line. That is the story
where I finally found one that has the same attitude to "music",
bless
her eyes, in public places:

"Fie!" (and grawlix!) on those noisemakers assaulting us with the din
of their iniquity. And a big "No"
to restaurants where the hubub clogging the air makes the whacky
thoughts of headsets or the indelicate posture of fingers to another's
lips seem an option right up there with the ear trumpet. When volume
grinds serenity under its heel, it's time to get up and be your own
walkman. Vote with your feet and scoot. Not that having to make a
cellphone call across the table shouldn't tell you something. It
merits remarking that one rough test of intelligence is a comparitive
sensitivity to noise.

"And we've a couple of electric launches; and I'll tell you what we
do
every night or two--we tow a rowboat behind each one with a big
phonograph and a boy to change the discs in 'em. On the water, and
twenty yards behind you, they are not so bad."

Methinks the utterer there was Croesus North. The statement did open
with a flowing sweetness
most expected of our fledgling miss until O. Henry brought us up short
with another unflattering angle on the Norseman in the phase after the
last comma.

Inline with your pictured sympathies,
you will be chagrined--or maybe relieved--to learn that I have failed
to picture you as a man wrapped in dun mufti, furiously peddling a
bicycle-rickshaw trailing a giant, glinting boom box spilling a wake
of tribal rhythms as you and it pump and bump along the lane, simply
vibrating pesky pedestrians out of your path in a textbook parody on
Brownian motion.
But...I can send you an autographed picture.



"A capable orchestra concealed in a bower of wistaria played with
sufficient judgment to make the art of music probable and the art of
conversation possible."


Hear, hear. Although the botanist defining the genus is Wistar, it
merits mention that the canonized and overwhelming spelling is
wisteria. For those unfamiliar with its royal purple, see
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=wisteria and
compare the Jacaranda blossom while lamenting the lack of smellovision
in both cases.

Regards,


Edward Hennessey

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