My response has to do with my own...
Secret Origins:
No spider bite; no Krypton.
Just D'Aulaires' book.
Not quite an iconic panel from comic-book history, but it's a start... :-)
Thoughts on role-playing games, Hermann Hesse's Glass Bead Game, and other stuff that I find cool
Friday, March 8, 2013
Tiny Harmonies: Origins
Today marks the second time I've posted to the blog from an airport, twiddling my thumbs while a flight has been delayed... There's zen and poetry in that, I'm sure, but I'll stick to today's main topic: A new blog challenge... Tiny Harmonies. The task: Respond to a given one-word theme with a 17-syllable haiku. The theme for this week: ORIGIN.
My response has to do with my own...
Not quite an iconic panel from comic-book history, but it's a start... :-)
My response has to do with my own...
Not quite an iconic panel from comic-book history, but it's a start... :-)
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I like your haiku.
ReplyDeleteOh, The Glass Bead Game is a wonderful book. Hopefully synthesis leads to harmony.
Thanks, Laoch! I'm still trying to find ways to bring Hesse's ethereal GBG into the real world.
DeleteI'll be by everyone's blogs to check out the Tiny Harmonies as soon as I can... the airport wi-fi is slow... :-(
It's making me so happy to see some of my favorite people interacting for the first time.
ReplyDeleteCyg, there's a review on the book you linked that says, 'I checked this book out of the library many times as a child.' Reading his words made me imagine you as a kid doing the same thing. And that made me happy, too. :)
Oh, and safe and productive travels!!! I send you my best energy -- all I've got ... NOW!
DeleteThanks! I checked it out of my town's library many times as a child, too -- and used up many allowances of dimes making old-style photocopies of nearly every page (that onion-skin-type paper had a distinctive smell). I didn't own it until well into my 20s. :-)
DeleteMy flight from Baltimore to home made it down okay, but it's snowing like the dickens outside... I'm holing up in the airport for a few hours to wait it out...
Forgot to mention, I love what you did with the Peep.
DeleteAs soon as I clicked on the link, I let out a quiet "ooooh" of understanding. Love that. Have a wonderful weekend.
ReplyDeleteTheir books were special. I knew the Greek and Norse ones as a kid, and only recently discovered their shorter bio on George Washington (which they rendered in a similarly mythic way).
DeleteRide the waves little peeps !
ReplyDeleteReally like the haiku, wonderful tie in to origins.
cheers, parsnip
Thanks, parsnip! A very underappreciated cousin of the carrot, you are...
DeleteWhat a unique job with the haiku! I love it.
ReplyDeleteI also love those surfing peeps.
If by "unique" you mean "breaking all rules of haiku except the syllables," then I agree. :-)
DeleteMashing up images is just too much fun to resist sometimes...
Love this post so very much. It combines so many of my life passions: comic books, Greek myths and Hokusai.
ReplyDeleteSo, you're not a Marylander. Where is home?
Originally from Joisey, now a New Englander. You and I may be not all that far apart.
DeleteA book from my childhood too: been far too long since I read it! Love what you did with the ducks too- I forgot all about the ducks! Very clever stuff :-)
ReplyDeleteWe have that book. Wow! So do you. Great take on the idea of "origins."
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Lily and Kerry! I'm going try to stop by everyones' blogs, but I'm still catching up with the world after getting back home yesterday.
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