‘Listuary’ Part Two
List PROMPTS 10-17
10 & 11. Rooms past and present - or maybe just the items (or adventures) of one room. It’s up to you…
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10. Rooms. Rooms in your home, rooms from the past. Other people’s rooms. List them. What do they mean to you?
11. One room, past or present. Can you list what is/was in it, what you do/did there, what you see from there, what can be heard …
12. “Termes of a Kerver” is a 16th century list of terms in carvery. Here is part of its list of terms used when carving various cuts of meat:
sauce that capon sauce that capon
spoyle that henne spoil that hen
fruche that checkyn frust that chicken
unbrace that malarde unbrace that mallard
dysfygure that pecocke disfigure that peacock
border that pasty border that pasty
tyere that egge tear that egg
splatte that pyke splat that pike
tayme that crabbe tame that crab
from Shaun Usher (2014) Lists of Note London: Canongate & Unbound
Make your own list of verbs – for the take away order; the ways of your kitchen; house or garden work …. You decide.
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13. The kind of places I like: seaside or forest, city or village, mountains or underground …. There may be a place where you go to again and again. There may be a place that you visited once and would love to return to. Write it down!
14. My life in ten objects: list them. Tell the stories.
15. My cultural heritage: where do you come from? what has made you? Places, stories, music, objects, traditions and rituals …
16. My closest friends: what is it that draws me to each of them?
14. My life in ten objects.
17. Synonyms for emotions.
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17. In 1737, Benjamin Franklyn published in his newspaper, The Pennsylvania Gazette, a Drinker’s Dictionary. Essentially, 228 synonyms for drunkenness. Here’s a selection. Add to the list, if you will. Invent your own. Make a list for some other state: happy/ grumpy/ hungry… You may just like to use some of these words in some writing of your own.
He is Addled
He’s Afflicted
He’s Bewitch’d
Drunk as a Wheel-Barrow
Burdock’d
His Head is full of Bees
He sees the Bears
He’s Cherry Merry
He’s been in the Cellar
Sir Richard has taken off his Considering Cap
It is a Dark Day with him.
He’s Eat a Toad and half for his Breakfast
He’s Fishey
Fox’d
Been to France
Fuzzl’d
He’s Glad
Gold-headed
Globular
Got on his little Hat
Knows not the way Home
He’s Intoxicated
Jolly
Jagg’d
Jumbled
He’s a King
Het his Kettle
He’s Light
Lappy
Limber
He sees two Moons
He’s Nimpropsical
He’s Smelt of an Onion
He’s Pdgeon Ey’d
He’s Quarrelsome.
He’s Rocky
Raddled
Like a Rat in Trouble
He’s Stitched
Seafaring
In the Sudds
Been too free with John Strawberry
He’s right before the Wind with all his Studding Sails out
He’s Top’d
Double Tongu’d
Has swallow’d a Tavern Token
He’s Wise
He’s Wet
He’s Out of the Way
from Shaun Usher (2014) Lists of Note London: Canongate & Unbound
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