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Peg Duthie ([personal profile] pondhop) wrote2015-02-14 10:35 am

daffodils from the past

Specifically, a snapshot taken in 1984, at my piano teacher's house:

daffodils, 1984

In sifting through old papers, I also came across a notes for a proposal I wrote in 1991 or 1992. A colleague and I were chatting yesterday about those little moments of victory when the expertise we developed years ago shows up and says, "Yes, that is a [wallpaper design | sonata | paragraph] by [m | n | o], even though I haven't [seen | heard | read] it before."

That said, I'm skimming the notes, and, lord. These are the two bits that are still remotely intelligible to me today:


If the mouth is both the location of sin (original fruit) and redemption (Eucharist)?

. . . What I offer in this paper is a study of ME [Middle English] didactic tradition through [the] lens of gluttony, specifically through what I see as the two major vernacular text-groups leading up to PPl [Piers Plowman].

PPl, however crazy and unintelligible it seems to us today, was meant to be read.


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