Tennyson had a way with words! I was introduced to him through Star Trek, oddly enough -- "The Charge of the Light Brigade" was recited during a Dominion War episode.
O'Brien: Cannon to the left of them, cannon to the right of them, cannon in front of them volleyed and thundered Bashir: Stormed at with shot and shell, boldly they rode and well, into the jaws of Death, into the mouth of Hell, rode the six hundred. Nog: Whatever it is you two are reciting, I WISH YOU'D STOP.
@ Stephen: I was reminded of this today by a James Bond clip spoken by Judy Dench - what a voice!!
Star Trek got a bit heavy on literary references especially when Picard was on screen but it introduced me to a few things too. [grin] Then again, there's probably at least one Shakespeare quote available for *any* occasion!
BTW - None of my recent comments on your Blog have shown up. Is there an issue? I think I'm missing at least 4-5 now....
I wondered why you weren't dropping by! I'll check the comment queue-- there's never been a problem before, but maybe wordpress changed the algorithms or whatever. Thanks for letting me know!
There were a proper PILE of them -- for some reason WP flagged them as spam. I'll have to start checking that.
(Oh, and one of the reasons I LOVE 90s-era Trek was how cultured it was. It introduced me to opera, folk music, swing music, Tennyson, who knows what else.)
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Tennyson had a way with words! I was introduced to him through Star Trek, oddly enough -- "The Charge of the Light Brigade" was recited during a Dominion War episode.
O'Brien: Cannon to the left of them, cannon to the right of them, cannon in front of them volleyed and thundered
Bashir: Stormed at with shot and shell, boldly they rode and well, into the jaws of Death, into the mouth of Hell, rode the six hundred.
Nog: Whatever it is you two are reciting, I WISH YOU'D STOP.
@ Stephen: I was reminded of this today by a James Bond clip spoken by Judy Dench - what a voice!!
Star Trek got a bit heavy on literary references especially when Picard was on screen but it introduced me to a few things too. [grin] Then again, there's probably at least one Shakespeare quote available for *any* occasion!
BTW - None of my recent comments on your Blog have shown up. Is there an issue? I think I'm missing at least 4-5 now....
I wondered why you weren't dropping by! I'll check the comment queue-- there's never been a problem before, but maybe wordpress changed the algorithms or whatever. Thanks for letting me know!
There were a proper PILE of them -- for some reason WP flagged them as spam. I'll have to start checking that.
(Oh, and one of the reasons I LOVE 90s-era Trek was how cultured it was. It introduced me to opera, folk music, swing music, Tennyson, who knows what else.)
Spam, eh? Well, I've been called worse things... [grin]
ST has always been great for introducing droplets of culture that the viewers can run with.
crossing the bar is another good one...
Had to look that one up. Totally new to me!
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