Compatible Quotes: Halloween

'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. -- William Shakespeare

 

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.   -- Emily Dickinson

 

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin. -- Linus Van Pelt

October 31, 2008 1:05 AM | | Comments (2)

Categories:

2 Comments

By Tim Motion on November 1, 2008 5:28 AM

Of course! I haven't seen "Peanuts" for years - only when living abroad and taking 'foreign' newspapers...But "Peanuts" is in fact well known in UK.

By Tim Motion on October 31, 2008 9:26 PM

That was the traditional rule on board ship in the Royal Navy.I don't remember the Great Pumpkin though, and have no recollection of Hallowe'en being mentioned or 'celebrated' aboard. Contagion from the breath of Hell was not something the Admiral of the Fleet would have tolerated amongst the tight-knit crews, though not averse to delivering with guns and rockets a dose of Contagion to the enemy....

(The Great Pumpkin may not be well known in the British Isles. It, or he, is a figment of the imagination of Linus, a central character in Charles Schultz's comic strip "Peanuts." -- DR)

Leave a comment

About this Entry

This page contains a single entry by Rifftides published on October 31, 2008 1:05 AM.

Generations Of Tough Guys was the previous entry in this blog.

Studs Terkel, Giant is the next entry in this blog.

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.

AJ Ads

Introducing
AJ Arts Blog Ads
Now you can reach the most discerning arts blog readers on the internet. Target individual blogs or topics in the ArtsJournal ad network.

Advertise Here

AJ Blogs

AJBlogCentral | rss

culture
About Last Night
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Artful Manager
Andrew Taylor on the business of arts & culture
blog riley
rock culture approximately
CultureGulf
Rebuilding Gulf Culture after Katrina
Dewey21C
Richard Kessler on arts education
diacritical
Douglas McLennan's blog
Flyover
Art from the American Outback
Life's a Pitch
For immediate release: the arts are marketable
Mind the Gap
No genre is the new genre
Performance Monkey
David Jays on theatre and dance
Plain English
Paul Levy measures the Angles
Rockwell Matters
John Rockwell on the arts
Straight Up |
Jan Herman - arts, media & culture with 'tude

dance
Foot in Mouth
Apollinaire Scherr talks about dance
Seeing Things
Tobi Tobias on dance et al...

jazz
Jazz Beyond Jazz
Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation
ListenGood
Focus on New Orleans. Jazz and Other Sounds
Rifftides
Doug Ramsey on Jazz and other matters...

media
Out There
Jeff Weinstein's Cultural Mixology
Serious Popcorn
Martha Bayles on Film...

classical music
The Future of Classical Music?
Greg Sandow performs a book-in-progress
On the Record
Exploring Orchestras w/ Henry Fogel
Overflow
Harvey Sachs on music, and various digressions
PostClassic
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
Sandow
Greg Sandow on the future of Classical Music
Slipped Disc
Norman Lebrecht on Shifting Sound Worlds

publishing
book/daddy
Jerome Weeks on Books
Quick Study
Scott McLemee on books, ideas & trash-culture ephemera

theatre
Drama Queen
Wendy Rosenfield: covering drama, onstage and off
lies like truth
Chloe Veltman on how culture will save the world

visual
Aesthetic Grounds
Public Art, Public Space
Artopia
John Perreault's art diary
CultureGrrl
Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural Commentary
Modern Art Notes
Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Creative Commons License
This weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons License.