Comments on: Minor Local Mysteries http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/05/15/minor-local-mysteries/ As honest as a gambling man can be Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:38:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Kira http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/05/15/minor-local-mysteries/#comment-43214 Kira Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:21:01 +0000 http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/05/15/minor-local-mysteries/#comment-43214 whoo-ha! That's awesome. whoo-ha! That’s awesome.

]]> By: Mr. McLaren http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/05/15/minor-local-mysteries/#comment-43210 Mr. McLaren Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:18:12 +0000 http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/05/15/minor-local-mysteries/#comment-43210 Sorry, that was me talking to myself. Umm. Let's see. My friend Lorraine has been in a lot of bands. One that she was in a while ago was a group called Folk Underground. They did a song called "Going Wodwo", which has a lyric that's a Gaiman poem. It's this kind of stuff: I'll leave the way of words and walk the wood I'll be the forest's man, and greet the sun, And feel the silence blossom on my tongue like language. I never really understood the title. When I was looking around for "Wild Man Of The Woods", the first thing I found online was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodwose" rel="nofollow">this</a>. Which explains the "Going Wodwo" title. And also puts a whole different spin on the hyper-civility of Wodehouse. :) Sorry, that was me talking to myself.

Umm. Let’s see.

My friend Lorraine has been in a lot of bands. One that she was in a while ago was a group called Folk Underground. They did a song called “Going Wodwo”, which has a lyric that’s a Gaiman poem. It’s this kind of stuff:

I’ll leave the way of words and walk the wood
I’ll be the forest’s man, and greet the sun,
And feel the silence blossom on my tongue
like language.

I never really understood the title. When I was looking around for “Wild Man Of The Woods”, the first thing I found online was this. Which explains the “Going Wodwo” title. And also puts a whole different spin on the hyper-civility of Wodehouse. :)

]]> By: Kira http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/05/15/minor-local-mysteries/#comment-43205 Kira Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:58:13 +0000 http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/05/15/minor-local-mysteries/#comment-43205 Okay, I only followed about half that.... Okay, I only followed about half that….

]]> By: Mr. McLaren http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/05/15/minor-local-mysteries/#comment-43199 Mr. McLaren Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:13:56 +0000 http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/05/15/minor-local-mysteries/#comment-43199 You know I love Stoppard right? Ever since my first encounter with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. I saw Arcadia performed at the Shaw Festival, back in the day. And yes, I could totally see a man walking in one side, and a woodwose out the other. Oh damn. Wodwo. Going Wodwo. That's what that song is about. Took me long enough. You know I love Stoppard right? Ever since my first encounter with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

I saw Arcadia performed at the Shaw Festival, back in the day.

And yes, I could totally see a man walking in one side, and a woodwose out the other.

Oh damn. Wodwo. Going Wodwo. That’s what that song is about. Took me long enough.

]]> By: Kira http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/05/15/minor-local-mysteries/#comment-43196 Kira Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:46:06 +0000 http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/05/15/minor-local-mysteries/#comment-43196 Stoppard has a pretty good gig on the Hermitage in a play he wrote called Arcadia....maybe that's where your local Wild Man of the Woods goes to shed his human side. Stoppard has a pretty good gig on the Hermitage in a play he wrote called Arcadia….maybe that’s where your local Wild Man of the Woods goes to shed his human side.

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