Showing posts with label Handel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Handel. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Biblical mondegreen / David - in context

SAUL: Young man, whose son art thou?
DAVID: The son of Jesse, thy faithful servant, and a Bedlamite.

Sunday, 8 March 2015

Thursday, 25 December 2014

Festive mondegreen

And his name shall be Khaled. (Wonderful!)
- Isaiah, 9:6

Saturday, 13 December 2014

Monday, 22 September 2014

Facebooks - VIII (bonus round)

Because 10 books a day for a week turned out not to be quite enough either!

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The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
Wiliam Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies - John Carey
Jim Davis - John Masefield
"The Fighting Business" [childhood history compendium, feat. Light Brigade on the front cover. No idea what its real title was]
The Road Stops at Nowhere - Denis Beckett
Messiah - (GF Handel and) Charles Jennens (and others)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernières
Collected Poems - WB Yeats
Bamboo - William Boyd
Annals of the Former World - John McPhee [not started]