[Ttha-potm] pram/peram from Patricia B

[Tom Kostro]

It has just come back to me across the senility barrier
(I just had a birthday) my high school foot ball team's cheer:
Perambulate! Perambulate!
Progress the ball across the field!

I am deeply impressed by the scholarship on
this seemingly staid -- as I first heard it with the first
reading of Hardy's poem -- even stodgy word.

Who would have guessed such passion and brimstone
lay beneath the ferns and the dreamer musing there?

Then I t hink, that's the spell of Hardy, the pastoral vs industrial;
the dreamer vs the doomed cryer, I mean, the cryer of doom.

My hat's off to Bill Needham's awesome reference.

Respect! This is an awesome list!
Patricia





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>     Perhaps there's room for that dratted pram after all.
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>   The following extracts are taken from the Book of Job:
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> Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord,
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> and said, From going to and fro in the earth,
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> and from walking up and down in it.
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> VULGATE:
>   [1:7] Cui dixit Dominus: Unde venis? Qui respondens,
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>    ait: Circuivi terram, et perambulavi eam.
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>   And that's certainly what happens: up and down..to and fro..up  
> and down...
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>   I think Hardy and the copywriter for the first models, each in  
> his own ironic way,
>   may well have been sharing the same joke.
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>   Best wishes
>   Bill N.
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