Simon J. Cook's Blog
August 2, 2020
Pictures of Names
Picture 1: A picture of Adam naming the animals. Picture 2: Morgiana copies the robber’s mark that ‘named’ Ali Baba. Picture 3: Captain Wingemund names himself. Detail from a larger drawing made on a tree in Ohio around 1762.
July 9, 2020
Analogy of a computer game?
My friend uo ou says a computer game is a theremin for visuals rather than for sound. (By the by, if you are reading this uo ou, Nixon is late coming in). When I heard him say this I had no idea what a theremin was. Naturally, his picture of a woman playing a theramin (sic) […]
July 8, 2020
the picture name
The time has come to talk of the picture-name of the Delaware chief, Wingymund. He drew it on a tree near the Muskingham river in Ohio around 1762; a young Englishman included it as a detail in his copy of the tree-drawing of which it is an element, which he made in his travel journal in 1775, […]
cabbages & kings
The time has come to talk of the picture-name of a Delaware chief, Wingymund, who himself drew it upon a tree near the Muskingham river of Ohio around 1762. Are we looking at writing, an equivalent of the writing, in Latin letters that capture something of the pronunciation of the spoken name of this chief […]
May 11, 2020
Macbeth doth murder sleep
This post is an old post the waters of which i have just muddied. i originally included the opening scene with the witches from Polanski’s Macbeth, which my English class at school saw at the Odeon in Muswell Hill, and then recalled Polanski’s name is now mud, and has made this movie version of the play itself […]
Fair is Foul: Macbeth in the ‘Lord of the Rings’
Macbeth opens with two scenes that set up a meeting between three witches and Macbeth and Banquo, who are returning from a great battle with the Norwegians. J.R.R. Tolkien would have been drawn to these echoes of a day when the Norse men were a real presence in Scotland. What captivated him was the encounter of these mortals with […]
May 10, 2020
Biography & Canon
Research into the thought of J.R.R. Tolkien now benefits from an enormous wealth of posthumous writings, largely (not solely) the legacy of the editorial work of the late Christopher Tolkien. We may call this collected body of writings the canon. At the same time, such work as well as other studies (e.g. John Garth on Tolkien and […]
May 3, 2020
April 15, 2020
RK Challenge, week 2
Return of the King: Back-to-home-schooling. Week 2. Well done for surviving into week 2 of the Return of the King back to home schooling challenge. Let’s jump to the bonus question: Why did this live NASA feed stop working about 7 days ago? And as we enter our second week challenge (note, challenge numbers begin only […]
Return of the King: Back-to-home-schooling. Week 2. Well ...
Return of the King: Back-to-home-schooling. Week 2. Well done for surviving into week 2 of the Return of the King back to home schooling challenge. Let’s jump to the bonus question: Why did this live NASA feed stop working about 7 days ago? And as we enter our second week challenge (note, challenge numbers begin only […]
