Comments on: Green man

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:01:32 +0000

I may be able to get it from my favorite (only) local used bookstore, which specializes in sci-fi as well as poetry. it does ring a bell.

I think of hospital rooms being more light blue than green. If they were green, I think they’d seem a lot more, uh, hospitable. Good point about our visual range.

By: David Harmon

David Harmon — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:39:31 +0000

Definitely instinctive — it’s the color of a hospitable environment, not to mention being smack in the middle of our visual range.

Just to note, the Dayworld trilogy seems to be out of print (it was published from 1985 to 1990), but there are used copies available from the usual sources. Despite his status and ability, I suspect his later books (and the Riverworld bibliolith) may have shoved some of his earlier work off the shelves. (The dude was quite prolific! Sadly, he died early this year.)

By: JMartin

JMartin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:33:58 +0000

None spoke French, and no one suggested mierda. Of course, one infantile adult let it drop. The same fool whose college French has spread like vinca throughout her brain’s language center, blocking the urgently-necessary acquisition of Spanish.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:59:51 +0000

That's interesting. What do the kids make of the fact that verde rhymes with merde, though?

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:58:26 +0000

Glad you liked it, Dick.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:58:06 +0000

I’d be surprised if it weren’t instinctive, actually. And I find the Islamic use of green one of the most appealing things about that religion. I decided not to quote that line from Lorca this time since I’ve done so too many times before, I think.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:55:03 +0000

Thanks for the extra info. The Dayworld Trilogy sounds interesting. (SciFi is a major weakness of mine.)

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:54:03 +0000

Hey, thanks. I have been keeping up with “fish without faces” too, by the way, though I guess i rarely comment. You know how it is: too many feeds in the reader.

By: JMartin

JMartin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:38:45 +0000

Thanks to David for that satisfying further explanation, and another book to read. Time-shares not niches, isolates jumping into an abandoned double-dutch rhythm : amazing.

And Elizabeth, I use poetry with groups of kids containing both Spanish and English speakers to demonstrate that the right word often is found in another language. We specifically use Lorca for the green/verde debate. The vote is never close. In comparison, green sounds shallow, hard, inorganic – a 3M product.

By: Dick

Dick — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:09:00 +0000

It is an extraordinary photo, Dave. Very much a 21st century representation of the Green Man made from the earth.