Word Association #43

Goood

(in French: Bon means good)

Bueno!

Buena Vista Social Club

Hasta la Vista / See you later

¡Hasta mañana! (See you tomorrow)

Niemand Weet Hoe Laat Het Is
song by Youp van 't Hek

lit: 'Nobody Knows What Time It Is'
( about Live your days as if these could be your last)

Warrenʻs World Enough and Time (ca. 1949)

Eight is Enough

Gabriel Fieldingʻs "Eight Days"

Chanukkah
during eight days

Eight Mile High

Dennis Lehaneʻs "Moonlight Mile"

moonlight serenade

Hyundai Sonata

Eine Kleine NachtMusik

The Living Daylights

Jack Londonʻs "Burning Daylight"

Booklist read for high school.

Short Novels of the Masters
- - first English read in college

Edgar Lee Masters

Harper Lee

Stan Laurel

Stan the Man

Sandman

Sandy the Sandhill Crane

Cranes > Yellowstone

(seen there, flying in the North)

"The Cranes were always fighters . . ."
quote from novelist Stephen
Crane (1871-1900)

Stephen Crane

Hart Crane

The White Hart

Dickeyʻs "To the White Sea"

Greenland
(White Sea - Green Land )

The Green Man

The Hulk

". . .A huge black hulk that was magnified
By its own reflection in the tide"
- - H. W. Longfellowʻs description of
a British occupation ship in his "The Midnight
Ride of Paul Revere"

Hollywood Hulk Hogan

"Hogans Heroes"

No Time for Heroes

Thomas Carlyleʻs "On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and
the Heroic in History"

Iron John: A Book About Men

Wattsʻs The Book: on the Taboo
against Knowing Who you are

Watts Riots

Samuel Beckettʻs Watt
- - one of only two novels that
Beckett originally wrote in English;
(the other English was "Murphy"),
and all the rest were in French.

Thomas 'a Beckett

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Doubting Thomas

Carolyn Heilbrun*ʻs "Honest Doubt"**

*writing as Amanda Cross

** reading currently

Honest Abe

Abraham (formerly Abram)

Stars

(He couldn't COUNT them, looking to the firmament)

Starry, Starry Night

Night: great, very neglected,
novel. ca. 1960 about U. S.
Korean War prisoners, by Francis
Pollini. The same title has been
used by dozens of other writers.

Goodnight Moon

"Goodnight, Ladies" song

The Lady is a Tramp

Roman Gary's "Lady L"

roman a clef

Roman Kingdom> Republic> Empire

OʻNeillʻs The Emperor Jones

Me and Mrs. Jones

VERN E JONES'S* THE JONES MEN

*The jones of the title is 1960s slang for
heroin, and has no connection with the
author's surname

Jessica Jones

"Jessica"
a romantic lead in Shakespeare's"The
Merchant of Venice"

Jessica Fletcher, the character of Murder She Wrote, played by Angela Lansbury

The Characters of Theophrastus

character study

James Russell Lowellʻs
My Study Windows

changing room

The Darkroom of Damokles - Willem Frederik Hermans

Changing or disappearing of a young man?
A book with changing perspectives

The Sword of Damocles

Damokles,
a second hand bookstore in The Hague

The World Court* Library
in the Hague

*I removed the brackets from "World Court"because clicking on it leads only to an edition of Joyceʻs
Ulysses!

The "Carnegie" public libraries

All the LT libraries

Legacy libraries, in LT and elsewhere.

The Legate's Daughter

Dava Sobelʻs "Galileoʻs Daughter:
a Scientific Memoir of Science,
Faith, and Love"

The Starry Messenger

Star of Bethlehem

Bethlehem Steel

Steely Dan

The Pennsylvania Steegles
a merger, during WW II of the NFLʻs
Philadelphia Eagles and
Pittsburgh Steelers

Dutch Florin, our money before the euro and guilder,
was written as 'NFL'
( Nederlandse Florijn, NFl)

Dutch Schultz

Ronald "Dutch" Reagan
39th President of the United States

Ronald McDonald

yellow-red clown

"Johnny the Clown"
pen name taken up by
the pope,hero of Morris Westʻs
The Clowns of God

Send in the Clowns

Send In The Clowns - song by Barbra Streisand

"Write me a letter;
Send it by mail.
Send it in care of
The Birmingham jail."

Take a Letter, Maria

"They call the wind Ma-rI-a"* (song)

*2nd syllable rhymes with "sigh" ,
not with "see".

Mariah Carey

Tommy Carey
baseball player who had a short ML
career in the 1940s

Tommy Cooper

Paul Fenimore Cooper*
20th c. polymath, travel writer, classicist,
physicist

*Knew author

Cooper Test

Cecil Cooper
ML baseball player, 1960s--70s

St. Caecilia
( one of the hundreds of music groups with that name,
choirs, brass bands, ..)

Cecilia Houghton Mallon*

*grandmother of rolandperkins

Mijn oma by Herman Pieter de Boer

My Grandmother - 'Herman Peter the Farmer'

Claire Heartsongʻs "Anna,
Grandmother of Jesus"

Au Clair de la Lune

Mon ami, Pierrot,
(mon ami = my friend)

Prête-moi ta plume,
Pour écrire un mot.

/* (Lend me your pen,
To write a word.)

*Not guaranteeing that there is
an English version

La Voila!

"Weʻll ʻwhackʻ anyone that says
ʻLa Cosa Nostraʻ inside of a court room;
they donʻt even have to say ʻLa Cosa
Nostraʻ: weʻll ʻwhack ʻem, if they
just say ʻLaʻ!" -- attributed to John Gotti

Our House, (in the middle of the street) - song by Madness

"Just on the Street Where you Live"

Green Dolphin Street

Robert Lowellʻs* controversial poetry
collection "The Dolphin"

*Met author.

Flip Wilson

Wilson Pickett

Boxʻs "Shots Fired: Stories from
Joe Pickett Country"

Pickett's Charge

"The Charge of the Light Brigade"*
by Alfred Tennyson

*also an excellent movie of ca. 1968

The Valley of Death

"Red River Valley" -- Folk (?) song of
disputed origins, and of many different titles

Down in the Valley

Bounderies by Jon Anderson

O'r the green mountains and
O'r the GREEN VALLEYS
I've walked through the country
And felt me an age
A people so strong
They resist for so long
The Boundaries that hold them

Fairway of the 2nd hole at Oakley
Country Club, Watertown, MA.
(Sometimes called "down in the valley")

Noel Beattyʻs "Literary Byways of Boston
& Cambridge"

The Boston Strangler

The Boston Red Sox

Chicago White Sox

Howard Hawks

Robert E. Howard
author of the "Conan" books

Robert E. Lee

Robert,the Bruce,
medieval king of Scotland

King Stephen of England
c. 1092/6 – 1154, often referred to as Stephen of Blois

St. Stephen

Boxing Day
- - secular name for St. Stephenʻs
Day (12/26)

The Boxer, by Simon and Garfunkel

Mohammed Ali

Joe Frazier - - fought (157) in 3
historic matches

George Foreman grill

George VI*
- - wartime (1940s)
and postwar king of the U K;
father of Elizabeth II

*pre-reign name: Albert

second son

"Son of Man" / "Huios tou Anthropou"
much-disputed as to its meaning,
the phrase is applied to Jesus in
the New Testament

Son of Eve

Eve Bunting
- - childrenʻs, young adult author

Bye Baby Bunting

snow bunting
not that tall...

Snow bird

December, January, February
- - main months for "snow birds"
(167) in Hawaiʻi

The Ides of March

"The Moon is Blue"
-- classic movie of the 1950s

Daughter

(i don't explain that, take it for what it is )

The Daughter of the Moon

Helios (Sun/Sol, etc.)
Greek god, a Titan, later often
identified with Apollo)

Helium,
the chemical element

Balloons, the Sun, etc.
--suggestions found on the internet
concerning where to find 177.

Zeppelins

(flying) cigars

Rumour at Nightfall and The Name of Action
2 Greene titles that G G (182) reportedly didnʻt want
included in his Collected Works

Rumors of War

Soviet Union vs. Yugoslavia ca. 1949 and
Iran vs. Afghanistan ca. 2000
- - 2 rumored wars that did not take place

Back in the USSR

Nye Khlebom yedinyim/ Not by Bread Alone
by Vladimir Dudintsev
- - Soviet era novel, very influential outside of
the Soviet Union, as being one of the few that
gave a true picture of everyday life in Stalinʻs
USSR.

Bread and Circuses

Divide and Conquer

The Great Divide

The Great Divorce

The Gay Divorcee

John Gay British 17th c. poet and
playwright

John Jay

Blue Jay

Toronto Blue Jays

Canadian flag

Flagstaff, AZ

Flag Day, Elks celebration, Cambridge, MA June 1948:

The featured invited speaker was Elk and future governor
Paul Dever; the speaker of the Elks ritual reading
was non-Elk rolandperkins.

Fun with Flags by Sheldon Cooper

The entrance of the sportsmen and women during the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games.

Sporting Life

George Gershwin
- - composer of Porgy and Bess
which featured "203" in a major
supporting role.

An American in Paris

This composition of Gershwin, was inspired by the composer’s trips to Paris throughout the 1920s

"Les Paris Stupides" "Stupid Bets" by
Jacques Prevert
- - a poem in which the text* is only 2
words longer than the title; satirical of
both form letters and the philosophy of
Blaise Pascal

*Text: Un certain Blaise Pascal, etcetera.

Midnight in Paris

Midnight Express
by Billy Hayes

The Patagonia Express
by Paul Theroux

Idle Days in Patagonia

Jerome K. Jerome's Idle Thoughts
of an Idle Fellow

Jerome Kern

Jerom

is a Flemish comic book character and one of the main cast members in the Belgian comic strip, Suske en Wiske by Willy Vandersteen. He is the series' strongman and well known for his physically impossible powers that often make him the deus ex machina who solves every problem

Heracles aka Hercules a sort of strength god
(Greco-Roman); the deus ex machina in Sophoclesʻs
Philoctetes

Xena

Xenia

Zelkova

('From Acer to Zelkova', a British tree guide )

Ilex

Dionysius*

* Various human beings named Dionysius are
found in Greek History. e.g. in ancient Sicily
; the human D. with an -ius ending is not
to be confused with the god DionysUS,
with a -us ending.

Het Witte Goud
(The White Gold, nick name of the white asparagus)

Robert Gravesʻs "The White Goddess"

The Snow Queen

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

(with a queen in the snow)

The Wake of the Red Witch
by Garland Roark

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

The Mill Pond
- - pond in the NW of my home
town, Woburn, MA}

On Golden Pond

Golden Gate Bridge

Andricʻs "Bridge on the Drina"

Bridge Over the River Kwai

Night by Francis Pollini
like 234, a great prisoner-of-war novel*
(i m o even greater than 234).

*U. S. prisoners of the Chinese in
the Korean War

The Night Porter

No touchstones today.

Katherine Ann Porter, novelist

Katrina and the Waves

The Third Wave

Virginia Woolfʻs The waves

The Great Wave off Kanagawa - woodblock print by Hokusai

"the wave": controversial move by
presidents Obama and R. Castro
at a Tampa Bay vs. Cuban National
Team game

The Wave, 1981 film about how a group can be influenced, one way of looking to explain how the WO-II turned out to be what it was

Wave Good-bye

Philip Rothʻs Goodbye Columbus

Chris Columbus

"Way down in Columbus, Georgia,
Among the swamps and everglades . . ."

the setting of Walt Kellyʻs comic strip
publications: Pogo

We have met the Enemy and he is us

Toys R Us: Hawaiʻi (or is it
national?) toy business

It's even International ...we have them here too :)

The BFG (In Dutch ReUS=Giant )

I always think Reus/Giant when i hear or see that name, and it's an gigantic concern we just learned....
(home in Wayne, NJ, and shops in all continents( beside South America)

The Iron Giant

The Iron Rooster - Paul Theroux

Gordon Dicksonʻs Wolf and Iron

Falls Church, VA

niagra Falls

Victoria Falls in Zambia and Zimbabwe
, Africa

Victoria Regina

Victoria Amazonica
a big waterlily that flowers not often, and then only one night,
for example in the Hortus Botanicus in Leiden, Holland

Victoria (state), Australia

Queensland

Queens (borough), NYC, USA

Queens Park Rangers

Texas Rangers
American League baseball team
in the Dallas-Fort Worth area

Dallas
(The TV series, all episode were broadcasted here too )

a broadcast: Finland > Soviet Estonia.
Estonia was said to be the only part of
the old Soviet Union in which at least a
part of the population could see "Dallas".
(They were seeing the Finnish translation
from neighboring Finland, and the Finnish
and Estonian languages are closely
related.)

'Radio Oranje' (radio Orange)

The clandestine broadcasting during WO ll from London to the Netherlands. People listened with one ear close to the hidden radios. Regulary queen Wilhelmina spoke in that way to our nation , to encourage.

Princeton# and Syracuse*
- - 2 "Orange" teams in college sports

*A semifinalist in womenʻs (today) and menʻs
(Saturday) NCCAA basketball; they, however,
lost a menʻs semi-final to North Carolina.

# usually 1st or 2nd in Ivy League basketball,
but lost it to Harvard last year and to Yale
this year.

The Mets and that 'new' Orange team in California, SF Giants . ( original from NYC ), wearing both orange in their shirts. Maybe heritage of The Dutch ? That would be very nice.

"mezzo-mezzʻ " (pronounced "Mets-oh-Mets")
- - Italian phrase meaning "fair to middling".

"Nel mezzo del caminʻ di nostra vita / Midway
through the highway of our life ..."
9Dante Inferno line 1

The Seventh Circle

Amiri Barakaʻs "The System of Danteʻs Hell"

the Diogenes Club

The Joy Luck Club

mothers & daughters

Rosalyn Carter and Amy;
Hiilary Clinton and Chelsea:
First ladies and their daughters

Les Miserables (the operatic version,
with Sacha Baron-Cohen as Thenardier.)

Cozette

Fantine, Marius, Jean Valjean
and Saint Denis -- sections of (286)
previous to and subsequent to (287)

Broadway Musicals

Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse
-- musical couple of the 1960s-70s

Gwen Stefani

Gwen Perkins Murphy,*
sculptor

* daughter of rolandperkins

Murphy's War

Murphy's law

Parkinsonʻs Law

Law School

school days

School Daze

flight school

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