Rory’s Comments (group member since Jul 09, 2020)

Rory’s comments from the DUCKS reading support group group.

I am not a latin expert, but Tenebrae is also a service that happens on Good Friday about the passion of Jesus (where candles are slowly extinguished)

I too love Its A Wonderful Life and watch it every year.
It's interesting that she keeps going back to the image of Mary as an "old maid" too

In terms of lions there's also the repeated refrain of the Cowardly Lion song from the wizard of oz ("courage!")

Angel wrote: "How did you feel about how it ended, though, with basically a lion cut scene?"

Confused, but not unhappy. I was expecting, I think, this to be one calendar day, and so for it to jump forward meant that it isn't. It seems to constantly shrug off any attempts at patterns as a conscious choice, and so it makes sense that she would just stop and tell you about it obliquely afterwards. It did make me go back and consider whether the other lion scenes indicate a time jump, but the answer was ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I loved this section, especially the abominable snowpeople, but I think that's because it has the closest we've come so far to story. (don't get me wrong, I'm not jonesing for story, it's just my lizard brain finds reading that stuff easier).

(I think it's useful to highlight the duplicates)

I'm failing with the plan - and not taking part in the discussion - insofar as I am reading ahead and then forgetting where the boundaries between days are.

Julie and Julia seems like a big one

When the cat died we had catnip tea (7)
Your feets too big (8)
What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! (12)
Figaro, Figaro, Figaro! (14)
per carità (14)
Drink to me only
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (15)
with thine eyes (23)
She wheels a wheelbarrow (24)
Courage! (28)
a bushel and a peck (28)
sassy as can be (31)
skip to my lou, my darlin' (31)
Drink to me only (33)
And I'll not ask for wine (33)
There's no business like show business (36)
I'm no chump, I just bit off a camel's hump (42)
That's amore (45)
ONO the banks of the Ohio (48)
Count your blessings instead of sheep (48)
London bridge is falling down (49)
loves old sweet song (50)
soaky soaks you clean (51)
I'm just wild about animal crackers (52)
the man who broke the bank at monte carlo (63)
ive got a mule, her name is sal (76)
stars and stripes forever (80)
way down yonder in teh paw-paw patch (103)
La donna e mobile (115)
as high as an elephants eye (124)
polly wolly doodle all the day (p127)
Born free (!) (149)
Where is love (153)
the beer that pickled dear old dad (162)
we are, we are, we are, we are the engineers (163)
four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie (165)
Beethoven's fifth 166
row row row your boat (167)
march of the penguins (172)
the appassionata (181)
hitch your wagon to a star (194)
Allons enfants de la patri-i-i-e, le jour de gloire est arrivé (196)
Mele Kalikimaka (202)
when a man's an empty kettle (217)
I am little buttercup, sweet little buttercup (223)

The master builder

A place to post interesting song fragments

Barber of Seville (sung) (p14)
Tosca
Rigoletto
Marriage of Figaro (sung) (p70)
Il trovatore (p248)
Otello (p230)

the fact that I read a goodreads comment saying that the author was a "miss little clever clogs," the fact that I read another goodreads comment saying that the author isn't a real writer because she can't use punctuation,