Re: Names, Tractor Tires and Bedsteads
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- Subject: Re: Names, Tractor Tires and Bedsteads
- From: H*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 00:13:37 -0600 (MDT)
Griff, a funny fellow, indeed, quipped:
<< > In the May 1994 issue of Gardens Illustrated, a very fine
> and toney British Gardening magazine, is a picture of a garden in the
> Chiltern Hills in which is found a bed bed. A rusty iron bed has been
> tastefully situated on the lawn and bordered with grey stone pavers.
Within
> the frame, on the bed as it were, are two recumbant forms made of chicken
> wire which were molded over the prostrate bodies of two people. They
appear,
> verily, to be cradled in the arms of Morpheus. Over these wire forms grow
> creeping thymes.
Anner -- Surely, this is just a representation of "Bedthyme". >>
I like it!
The whole subject is rife with the potential for bad puns, Griff. I thought
of "Creeping Time", on the order of a memento mori. And Walta's beds must
surely be a play on the practice of "bedding out" plants. One assumes they
were Victorian bedsteads. Self-referential, doncha know.
This madness must cease.
Anner Whitehead, Richmond, VA
