Perhaps that was some fearsome sort of Múlasýsluandlit he had, but really I have never seen the like of his face before.
I like to twit my friends that there are only 7 face types among Icelandic men, the same 7 over and over with discomfitingly minor variation. I'm not really serious when I say this, but it is not completely false, and I am not above pointing out all the nr. 4s among the Saturday crowd strolling by the café window for the pleasure of watching a new understanding of the familiar dawn on the face of my interlocutor. It's a little mean, I'll admit.
There are more respectable ways to enjoy the same effect. You could write poetry instead. Not everyone has the talent, of course. For the rest of us, we can always read some and have the symmetrical pleasure at the hands of another, the pleasure of being made to see familiar things in unfamiliar ways.
I may go do that now. I have a book just here, a signature inside the front cover. Further in, there are poems.
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dabbaskur
Davíð Oddsson played Ubu Roi in a 1969 MR production of the play of that name.
Ubuesque has come into French as an adjective applicable to rulers so infantile, irresponsible, and selfish as to be dangerous to enemies and subjects both. Ubu became Bubbi when the Jarry play was translated into Icelandic, and I rather like that rendering. However, I'm not sure that bubbaskur would ever convey the same idea. It is too easy to think of Bubbi Morthens first -- not enough people know about Bubbi kóngur.
But everyone knows Dabbi kóngur. Dabbaskur should work nicely.
Ubuesque has come into French as an adjective applicable to rulers so infantile, irresponsible, and selfish as to be dangerous to enemies and subjects both. Ubu became Bubbi when the Jarry play was translated into Icelandic, and I rather like that rendering. However, I'm not sure that bubbaskur would ever convey the same idea. It is too easy to think of Bubbi Morthens first -- not enough people know about Bubbi kóngur.
But everyone knows Dabbi kóngur. Dabbaskur should work nicely.
mánudagur, febrúar 02, 2009
XD
It's a little laughing face, isn't it?
This took me months to figure out, maybe longer. I always saw the alphabetic symbol of Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn: D-listinn. Well, now someone else is in power for the first time in eighteen years. Who's laughing now? The suddenly fyrrverandi ráðherrar of the fyrrverandi government whine about what they would have done had not the coalition disintegrated under the weight of public outrage -- under the weight of impassioned democracy.
I don't know what to make of the symbols of the parties now in coalition, Samfylkingin and Vinstri-Grænn, though Vinstri-Grænn's xV does look a little like Steingrímur J. screwing his eyes shut and yelling something inappropriate from the back of the chamber. He'll have to do that from in front now.
En til hamingju með nýju ríkistjórnina, íslendingar. Ég sá glitt í nokkur hlæjanda andlit á Austurvelli í fréttunum.
This took me months to figure out, maybe longer. I always saw the alphabetic symbol of Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn: D-listinn. Well, now someone else is in power for the first time in eighteen years. Who's laughing now? The suddenly fyrrverandi ráðherrar of the fyrrverandi government whine about what they would have done had not the coalition disintegrated under the weight of public outrage -- under the weight of impassioned democracy.
I don't know what to make of the symbols of the parties now in coalition, Samfylkingin and Vinstri-Grænn, though Vinstri-Grænn's xV does look a little like Steingrímur J. screwing his eyes shut and yelling something inappropriate from the back of the chamber. He'll have to do that from in front now.
En til hamingju með nýju ríkistjórnina, íslendingar. Ég sá glitt í nokkur hlæjanda andlit á Austurvelli í fréttunum.
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