A thread for people to say whatever about that dawned Dream of Gerontius

[amateur51]

Where should I start ?

Damned text......... full stop !



Maybe as spoken by the great Basil Brush ?

Boom Boom

But to make out that somehow this doggerel is anything else ?
I'm sure at the time it worked
but like Mud's Tiger Feet it really doesn't stand the test of time

It's a kind of Stairway to Heaven for the anglo-catholics

Neither Anglo (Welsh in fact, on both sides ) nor a Catholic here (an apatheist in fact ), try those words sung by the sublime Heddle Nash under Sir Malcolm Sargent - spine-tingling!

[Guest]

What I would truly like to know how much of the incremental dismantling of the core of R3 was HIS call, and how much imposed from above, and secondly, how the BBC Trust have reacted to this incremental castration.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

What I would truly like to know how much of the incremental dismantling of the core of R3 was HIS call, and how much imposed from above, and secondly, how the BBC Trust have reacted to this incremental castration.

Of whom do you speak?

[kernelbogey]

What I would truly like to know how much of the incremental dismantling of the core of R3 was HIS call[...]

Shurely God?

[Guest]

Have I misread the OP? Sorry of I have.

[kernelbogey]

As a (mildly frustrated) follower of this thread and Host, I feel it may be helpful to suggest, in the absence of elucidation from Bryn, that its subject is The Dream of Gerontius. Of course I may be mistaken, since others have taken what seem to be radically different interpretations of the thread title!

[french frank]

Damned predictive text. The thread title should not read "dawned".

Just adds to the divine mystery (kb explained by email - I thought people were irritated by those Digital on-screen Graphics).

Do you want 'darned' or 'damned'?

[Bryn]

In true Scratch tradition, take your pick. They carry near equal weight.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I expanded the abbreviation, but did not take the liberty of interpreting the expletive.

[Padraig]

For interest, information or ''whatever''

I have a copy of the Dream of Gerontius by Cardinal Newman. It is a little red book published in 1917 by Longmans, Green, and Co. It belonged to my father.

Inscribed on the front end papers, in his own 13-year-old handwriting:

" To W...... G. OD......
From Father McGinnis Chaplain to HM forces Tidworth 15th Dec 1919''

[MrGongGong]

As a (mildly frustrated) follower of this thread and Host, I feel it may be helpful to suggest, in the absence of elucidation from Bryn, that its subject is The Dream of Gerontius. Of course I may be mistaken, since others have taken what seem to be radically different interpretations of the thread title!

Seems fine to me unless you want everything sewn up

In true Scratch tradition, take your pick. They carry near equal weight.

That's the spirit

Don't let the slippery merchants pin you down

[eighthobstruction]

....And while the storm of that bewilderment
Is for a season spent,
And ere afresh the ruin on me fall,
Use well the interval....

[Petrushka]

'It is the restless panting of their being;
Like beasts of prey, who, caged within their bars,
In a deep hideous purring have their life
And an incessant pacing to and fro'

[MrGongGong]

....And while the storm of that bewilderment
Is for a season spent,
And ere afresh the ruin on me fall,
Use well the interval....

'It is the restless panting of their being;
Like beasts of prey, who, caged within their bars,
In a deep hideous purring have their life
And an incessant pacing to and fro'

I see the sun is over the yard-arm

cheers

[amateur51]

I see the sun is over the yard-arm

cheers

I wonder what the good Cardinal was on when he wrote that?