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[larryhammer]

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Speaking of which:

• Geoffrey Chaucer has been reading The Harley Lyrics, among other things.
  
  
• Personally useless advice: How to write an ode to math.
  
  
• Plaster cast of an ant colony. (via Making Light)
  
  
• Solved: whether it's hard work or talent. (via lilrivkah)
  
  
• My latest addiction: kakuro.

Meanwhile, my reaction to the Nibelungenlied is overshadowed by the jolt of such phrases as "the fortress of the queen of Iceland." I'm too steeped in Icelandic history to take that seriously. It helps if I mentally substitute Thule, or Tir nan Og.* A little. Also, I never was much taken by the whole King/Brynhilde/Siegfried/Gudrun/Attila triple-love-triangle -- aside from, yanno, the idea of transforming Attila the Hun into a character of medieval romance.

* The poet's conflating Netherlands and Norway and Nibelungland into one country is easier to take. A little.

---L.