Wednesday, December 7, 2014
After I did the poem, I wanted to illustrate it. I'd "heard" three speakers when I 'received' this poem. The first is mundane Joan Lansberry. The "Hot voice on a cool night", well, you might have guessed who the "Hot Voice" was, before I showed you the illustration. :) And the third is my Higher Self.
I could imagine right away how I wanted to do the illustration. But, of course, the main thing was finding how to express "Remember!" in hieroglyphs. So I got out the two volume Budge. Between Julia and I, we picked what seemed the most likely phrase. Having armed myself with that, I sought to confirm this in the Faulkner translations. And yes, this phrase is also there. So I felt pretty confident that an ancient literate person would know what I meant.
Skha: to remember, to call to mind, to commemorate some person or thing, to think, to think out...
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