Jon Singer on sun 10 jul 05
Best info I have is that it's from Anglo-Saxon
"=F0rawan" (approximately "thrawan" in the Roman
alphabet), which means to turn or twist.
I seriously hope nobody here thinks that the
English language already existed when people
started throwing pots.
Cheers --
jon
Reference: I don't recall where I found the claim,
but it does check out. It's about in the middle of
the right column of
http://penguin.pearson.swarthmore.edu/~scrist1/
scanned_books/tiff/oe_clarkhall/b0312.tiff
(Make sure you eliminate any spaces that get into
the URL if/when you put it back on one line. Worst
case, you can always Google on
"anglo-saxon" dictionary
and take your chances.)
Lee Love on mon 11 jul 05
Jon Singer wrote:
> Best info I have is that it's from Anglo-Saxon
> "ğrawan" (approximately "thrawan" in the Roman
> alphabet), which means to turn or twist.
Jon,
I postd this a couple days ago.
> I seriously hope nobody here thinks that the
> English language already existed when people
> started throwing pots.
Do you remember when Mars was at its closest distance to Earth?
"At 5:51 a.m. EDT on Aug. 27, 2003, Mars will be within 34,646,418 miles
(55,758,006 kilometers) of Earth. This will be the closest that Mars has
come to our planet in nearly 60,000 years."
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/mars_preview_021108.html
At that very moment, I was throwing at my wheel, listening to
public radio. I wanted to jump up and go look at mars in the night
sky, but the thought occured to me, "There wasn't such a thing as
throwing 60,000 years ago. If I stay at the wheel, I will be the first
potter to make a pot so close to Mars! " So I kept throwing. I have
a photo of that teabowl on one of my photologs. It isn't for sale. ;-)
A couple minutes later, I ran out to look at Mars. It was big and
bright!.
--
Lee Love
in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
http://hankos.blogspot.com/ Visual Bookmarks
http://ikiru.blogspot.com/ Zen and Craft
"We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
-- Prospero The Tempest
Shakespeare
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