when come back, bring pie
So I was cleaning my desk just now and found a scrap of paper with this written on it:
"NB: model most used (in Sh) in RII and second tet generally -- connotations of figuration and exemplarity? Also pie."
This was extremely confusing for a moment until I realized that when I wrote that I had probably been thinking of Richard's line about
that small model of the barren earth
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones
which was described rather famously by Samuel Johnson as "a metaphor not of the most sublime kind, taken from a pie." A pie with TASTY CORPSE FILLING.
I once planned to do a mock-scholarly post on the significance of pie in the tetralogy, but they don't actually refer to it enough to make it worthwhile. Oh, well.
"NB: model most used (in Sh) in RII and second tet generally -- connotations of figuration and exemplarity? Also pie."
This was extremely confusing for a moment until I realized that when I wrote that I had probably been thinking of Richard's line about
that small model of the barren earth
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones
which was described rather famously by Samuel Johnson as "a metaphor not of the most sublime kind, taken from a pie." A pie with TASTY CORPSE FILLING.
I once planned to do a mock-scholarly post on the significance of pie in the tetralogy, but they don't actually refer to it enough to make it worthwhile. Oh, well.