tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post8725140677432420251..comments2023-06-02T17:54:44.641+02:00Comments on Connaissances: A house I pass every morning No. 4Jonathan Wonhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862200571016427320noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-22791475037878399332007-12-11T01:19:00.000+01:002007-12-11T01:19:00.000+01:00Thanks for your interesting comment George. I have...Thanks for your interesting comment George. I have been meaning to read 'The House of Sleep'. Perhaps I'll have a crack at it this Xmas. Yes, the pun was intended. But no, I hadn't considered the word 'slee'. 'the fiend is slee' sounds great, doesn't it? I like the way Dunbar 'breaks' euphemistically into Latin when he's talking about death. It's a long while since I studied Latin, so I had to look it up. Wikipedia tells me that the it can be loosely translated as: 'I am scared to death of dying', which seems reasonable, but a bit of a Catch-22 situation.Jonathan Wonhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09862200571016427320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-6553247486855831032007-12-09T13:42:00.000+01:002007-12-09T13:42:00.000+01:00Do you know The House of Sleep, by Jonathan Coe? A...Do you know The House of Sleep, by Jonathan Coe? And Ursula Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven?<BR/><BR/>I imagine the pun about the P in SLEEP having dropped off will have occurred to you?<BR/><BR/>And 'slee', meaning 'sly'. You might know Willam Dunbar's poem that includes the lines:<BR/><BR/>"Our pleasance here is all vain glory,<BR/>This false world is but transitory;<BR/>The flesh is bruckle, the Fiend is slee:—<BR/>Timor Mortis conturbat me."George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-66794433412587380442007-11-18T07:53:00.000+01:002007-11-18T07:53:00.000+01:00Interesting musings on the nature & importance of ...Interesting musings on the nature & importance of sleep, Jonathan. <BR/><BR/>I rather like the notion of a house called Slee.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com