Comments on: Taliesin and Londres http://www.topofthemountains.net/2006/12/08/taliesin-and-londres/ "Hitch your wagon to a star." —Ralph Waldo Emerson Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:07:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Ben http://www.topofthemountains.net/2006/12/08/taliesin-and-londres/#comment-14748 Ben Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:19:36 +0000 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2006/12/08/taliesin-and-londres/#comment-14748 Katherine: I'd thought of that -- that I love Britain because I've mostly read British lit -- but it doesn't seem to be connected. I.e., the affinity or lack thereof comes before I read the literature, not after. Genetic coding, perhaps? Life's work? No idea. :) Yes, do send me your essay. I don't love the desert, either, and I can't understand how anyone would want to live in Vegas or New Mexico or Arizona. Seriously. :) e: Only the last five minutes (and I wished then that I'd seen the whole thing). I didn't know Wright's estate was called Taliesin -- random coincidence. What I had in mind when I titled the post was Charles Williams' <i>Arthurian Torso,</i> and I <i>thought</i> it was subtitled something like "Taliesin through Londres," but I'm not finding anything close to that on Google. Maybe I misremembered. Oh, rats. Yeah, I totally got it wrong: it was "Taliessin through Logres." Whoops. :) ("Londres" is the French name for London, apparently, and I mixed it up with "Logres," which was the name of King Arthur's realm in Britain.) Drat. :) Anyway, I suppose my post title still works, since it kind of has to do with London, sort of. ~sigh~ Katherine: I’d thought of that — that I love Britain because I’ve mostly read British lit — but it doesn’t seem to be connected. I.e., the affinity or lack thereof comes before I read the literature, not after. Genetic coding, perhaps? Life’s work? No idea. :) Yes, do send me your essay. I don’t love the desert, either, and I can’t understand how anyone would want to live in Vegas or New Mexico or Arizona. Seriously. :)

e: Only the last five minutes (and I wished then that I’d seen the whole thing). I didn’t know Wright’s estate was called Taliesin — random coincidence. What I had in mind when I titled the post was Charles Williams’ Arthurian Torso, and I thought it was subtitled something like “Taliesin through Londres,” but I’m not finding anything close to that on Google. Maybe I misremembered. Oh, rats. Yeah, I totally got it wrong: it was “Taliessin through Logres.” Whoops. :) (”Londres” is the French name for London, apparently, and I mixed it up with “Logres,” which was the name of King Arthur’s realm in Britain.) Drat. :) Anyway, I suppose my post title still works, since it kind of has to do with London, sort of. ~sigh~

]]> By: e http://www.topofthemountains.net/2006/12/08/taliesin-and-londres/#comment-14320 e Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:16:20 +0000 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2006/12/08/taliesin-and-londres/#comment-14320 Taliesen . . . mmmmm. Did you see the Frank Lloyd Wright doc this last week, then? Taliesen . . . mmmmm. Did you see the Frank Lloyd Wright doc this last week, then?

]]> By: Katherine http://www.topofthemountains.net/2006/12/08/taliesin-and-londres/#comment-14258 Katherine Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:23:14 +0000 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2006/12/08/taliesin-and-londres/#comment-14258 I understand this issue. There are some cultures I feel kinship toward and others I don't as much. I think it may have to do with how much experience I've had with a culture's literary tradition. Anglophilia, I've noticed, tends to particularly afflict those who read a lot and who love language. Since our literary heritage comes from Britain, we bibliophiles and linguiphiles learn to love Britain. We may not feel as much affinity for certain cultures because we don't have as much experience with their literature. Of course, your post was inspired by your experience reading a text from one of the cultures you don't feel an affinity for, so my theory may be utter rot after all. Maybe it does have to do with the "forests and brooks and hills." I'll have to send you the essay I'm writing for my LDS literature class when I'm done. It's all about the guilt I feel over not loving the desert. Everyone in my family has fond memories of Southern Utah, including the Dixie desert. I don't like the desert, even though I was born in Kanab, Utah. I'm just not a fan of heat and sand. Give me the moist, salty air and thick, green foliage of the Northern California coast. There's a thrill I get watching a thick blanket of fog roll down verdant hills that I've never experienced in the desert. You really ought to watch The Secret of Roan Inish. I understand this issue. There are some cultures I feel kinship toward and others I don’t as much. I think it may have to do with how much experience I’ve had with a culture’s literary tradition. Anglophilia, I’ve noticed, tends to particularly afflict those who read a lot and who love language. Since our literary heritage comes from Britain, we bibliophiles and linguiphiles learn to love Britain. We may not feel as much affinity for certain cultures because we don’t have as much experience with their literature. Of course, your post was inspired by your experience reading a text from one of the cultures you don’t feel an affinity for, so my theory may be utter rot after all. Maybe it does have to do with the “forests and brooks and hills.”

I’ll have to send you the essay I’m writing for my LDS literature class when I’m done. It’s all about the guilt I feel over not loving the desert. Everyone in my family has fond memories of Southern Utah, including the Dixie desert. I don’t like the desert, even though I was born in Kanab, Utah. I’m just not a fan of heat and sand. Give me the moist, salty air and thick, green foliage of the Northern California coast. There’s a thrill I get watching a thick blanket of fog roll down verdant hills that I’ve never experienced in the desert.

You really ought to watch The Secret of Roan Inish.

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