Why did Macbeth not have a first name? And Hamlet has no surname
Hamlet McBeth… MP for Gomorrah, Sodom and Kensington North.Sirens a plently

King Lear, again Lear is an unusual name.It sounds like Fear.And then we have men who leer at women [ if only  that was all they did]
And Jesus  had a Spear in his side.I see plently of  rhymes here.

Of course Kings  don’t have surnames.Except William Wales
Since William  is in Israel maybe he should keep away from the sea.We don’t want him to be swallowed by a whale unless it  will produce peace in Palestine and all the Middle East.
Good Will,Good Will…… ?

My surname is Danish.But if I marry again I will choose  a man with a short name and I will change mine>Even though it’s 1,000 years since the Vikings even English people can’t spell it and as for poor Eastern European men delivering parcels…. it gives them the heebie jeebies

Basically I am a Nord on the outside but as for my skeleton… an orthopaedic surgeon tole me .You are only one step away from the treetops.My big toes  have rotated as if trying to be thumbs.If I lived in Africa I would be happy.I have Celtic feet so Celts are more lime monkeys than Angles and Saxons.Is it too late to climb a tree?

I wonder why some  of us are nearer to monkeys than others are?Still my mind is alright yet without a body what  use is it? Dualism again!

From Ynet

Prince William in the Holy Land,plays football with Jews and Arabs

The Fighting Temeraire

http://www.janandcoragordon.co.uk/

I recall that I first came across  ideas about gaps when studying art. Jan and Cora Gordons’s writing  mentions this.Even the best artists must have the experience of completing a work and finding that it is not what they had hoped.Certainly for beginners it can be very depressing and may be the reason why many people who did poorly at art in school never try again… as they felt this gap very  painfully.But as with many of the painful aspects of life,it is better to accept and honour the  gap.Strangely when we look back at some of our work we may find it has much more in it than we saw at the time.But wanting some pre-conceived notion of perfection we fail to notice the value of what we did in reality.

Turner’s late work was thought by some to be a sign of madness.This doesn’t mean our daubs are the next great advance in Art or Writing…. but we may need to be more tolerant of ourselves and our productions whilst also being genuinely critical and accepting criticism.

Failed
Failed again
Fail better

Samuel Becket

Oh,people whose dead words obscure our pain
Whose cliches ring like sand dropped on a beach
We  know well  your agenda’s not our aim

Cliches make your speech robotic ,maimed
Yet you cling to others  like a  leach
Oh,people whose dead words obscure our pain

As you are inattentive to the lame
So to the spies, dead letters you will teach
We  know well  your agenda’s not our aim

Wittgenstein said  that language is a game
We need not be imprisoned in a niche
Oh,people whose dead words obscure  again

Do not spread your fog on matters plain
We can use  expression to enrich
We  curse  your dark agenda and its aims

To  people their own language is a crutch
But self direction,instinct ,matter much
Oh,people whose dead words obscure,  defame
We  know well  your agenda, and its  crimes

175 choices of salad dressing in  the supermarket!
6.5 milliom stereo systems can be made from the  items in one store.

Do listen to this delightful  man.