Cultural mix
Oct. 9th, 2007 11:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badgermindTook the plunge and bought a ticket this morning for the Cambridge Greek Play this Saturday. I have wanted to go for years, but it has never quite fitted in before now. There are some interesting mp3 excerpts on their website - again, I've never quite mastered the pitch accent pronunciation of Ancient Greek. The history of Greek pronunciation in England is bizarre, as apparently after the Renaissance continental classicists more or less followed the modern or Byzantine pronunciation, while the English had their own idiosyncratic approach. Various attempts were made at reform, but when I was at school accents were no longer taught. I went to Waterstones to obtain a text and translation, and also found a text of the fragments of Empedocles, which I succumbed to as it will make reading the books of Peter Kingsley easier, which are fascinating background for Western magic.
During a Rolfing session in the early evening some good but rather painful work was done on my legs and ribs. On my way home I called at HMV near Piccadilly Circus. We were given a HMV gift card at our handfasting last year, and although we had delayed using it in the hope that both of us would actually be in a large HMV at the same time, we had agreed the night before that I could go for the most recent Inkubus Succubus album if Mrs Badger could have some Marilyn Manson. Added to this were Pan's Labyrinth, a Tarkovsky DVD and a CD of Mike Harding's old comedy shows. Mrs Badger believes that no one has purchased both Mike Harding and Marilyn Manson in the same transaction before, and we wondered if the person operating the till would require therapy for discordance.
During a Rolfing session in the early evening some good but rather painful work was done on my legs and ribs. On my way home I called at HMV near Piccadilly Circus. We were given a HMV gift card at our handfasting last year, and although we had delayed using it in the hope that both of us would actually be in a large HMV at the same time, we had agreed the night before that I could go for the most recent Inkubus Succubus album if Mrs Badger could have some Marilyn Manson. Added to this were Pan's Labyrinth, a Tarkovsky DVD and a CD of Mike Harding's old comedy shows. Mrs Badger believes that no one has purchased both Mike Harding and Marilyn Manson in the same transaction before, and we wondered if the person operating the till would require therapy for discordance.
