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Forum: The Barrow-Downs 10-05-2010, 04:23 PM
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Posted By Bęthberry
Good-bye to the first extant poem in English. ...

Good-bye to the first extant poem in English.




Hello to some lines, the provenance of which shall remain known to those who attended Oxonmoot.
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 11-16-2009, 07:51 PM
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Posted By Bęthberry
Time to put dragons to rest. For...

Time to put dragons to rest.



For something a little more light-hearted:
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 05-27-2009, 09:33 PM
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Posted By Bęthberry
Good bye for now to the Warrington Cat. ...

Good bye for now to the Warrington Cat.



And hello to another fiendishly clever beast.
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 05-07-2009, 01:56 PM
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Posted By Bęthberry
Ah, Lush, sad to see the lolcats go. But 'we...

Ah, Lush, sad to see the lolcats go. But 'we were old friends immediately" seems quite fitting.

Hail Tori and Neil. and the Dream King of course.
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 01-02-2007, 07:16 PM
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Posted By Bęthberry
Well now, it appears I am single-handedly keeping...

Well now, it appears I am single-handedly keeping this thread alive. Go me. :p

Adieu to the seasonal one from Dylan Thomas:



And hello to something for the new year, which, for a change...
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 11-30-2006, 09:42 AM
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Posted By Bęthberry
Silmaril a funny thing, about snowflakes and stars . . .

Thanks, Rimsy. Yours ain't so bad either.

And now the season of remembrance has passed and so goes



To be replaced by more seasonal faire, for which I offer a fuller quotation here than the...
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 11-02-2006, 04:28 PM
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Views: 253,073
Posted By Bęthberry
Chris Van Allsburg provided an ominous seasonal...

Chris Van Allsburg provided an ominous seasonal offering:



Another seasonal thought:
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 10-20-2006, 09:33 PM
Replies: 737
Views: 253,073
Posted By Bęthberry
meltdown

This was was quickly scared away by the seasonal ghosties and ghoulies.
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 10-15-2006, 11:47 AM
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Posted By Bęthberry
Adieu to one of the most ironic lines in the most...

Adieu to one of the most ironic lines in the most hilarious literary hoax of the Twentieth Century:

It is necessary to understand that a poet may not exist. Ern Malley (http://www.ernmalley.com/)...
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 11-26-2005, 05:29 PM
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Views: 253,073
Posted By Bęthberry
Enough of this paen to ThePantom! I lay to rest...

Enough of this paen to ThePantom! I lay to rest this quote.



In honour of the season I offer this. Interpret its use as you will....
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 10-27-2005, 01:22 PM
Replies: 737
Views: 253,073
Posted By Bęthberry
Boots Some lines must be commemorated: My new...

Some lines must be commemorated:

My new siggie, courtesy of the phantom's latest Werewolf game:




which puts to rest a little bit of Tolkien reception history:
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 09-29-2005, 08:50 PM
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Views: 253,073
Posted By Bęthberry
Boots Au revoir Baudelaire et Le Chat et...

Au revoir Baudelaire et Le Chat



et bonjour Ursula K LeGuin



I wonder how Tolkien felt rubbing shoulders with other books in the adult collection. :rolleyes:
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 08-17-2005, 09:53 PM
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Views: 253,073
Posted By Bęthberry
Boots I lay to rest: ~Don't try to lay no...

I lay to rest:

~Don't try to lay no boogie-woogie on the King of Rock and Roll.

RIP Long John Baldry~

I take up:

what does the arrow know
but the bowstring
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 05-31-2005, 10:09 AM
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Views: 253,073
Posted By Bęthberry
Boots Way past time to put this one to rest, even...

Way past time to put this one to rest, even though no one has seen the link between it and Barrow Wight's avatar. Sometimes I am just too subtle. ;)



New one on the way, I guess, when I find...
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 10-17-2004, 09:14 AM
Replies: 737
Views: 253,073
Posted By Bęthberry
Boots I interrupt this sig for a brief announcement

I know I just changed my sig, but there's a magnetic poem that is too funny and must be commemorated in some way. I will return to Mandelstam's lilting line:



but for now I want to giggle over...
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 10-13-2004, 06:59 AM
Replies: 737
Views: 253,073
Posted By Bęthberry
Boots Letting go

I put to rest this little gift:



and turn to
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 06-29-2004, 06:30 PM
Replies: 737
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Posted By Bęthberry
White-Hand Thanks for asking, Aman. :) It is from Neil...

Thanks for asking, Aman. :)

It is from Neil Gaiman's splendidly strange and frightening tale of a young's girl's courage and adventure, Coraline.
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 06-27-2004, 04:14 PM
Replies: 737
Views: 253,073
Posted By Bęthberry
Boots *bows head for a moment of silence as she lays...

*bows head for a moment of silence as she lays this one to rest:

"The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world ....Nothing ... had ever been so interesting."
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 11-03-2003, 10:12 AM
Replies: 737
Views: 253,073
Posted By Bęthberry
Shield A story told through time here. I went...

A story told through time here.

I went looking for the garden of my mother and lo! I found my own.

Never speak to women/unless you speak of flowers,
illustrate your garden/ and walk with them...
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 12-22-2002, 04:32 PM
Replies: 737
Views: 253,073
Posted By Bęthberry
Boots Memory trolls for submerged words. Here are the...

Memory trolls for submerged words. Here are the two quotations I have used at the BarrowDowns:

I went looking for the garden of my mother and lo! I found my own.

Never speak to women/Unless...
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