[ilds] Count Banubula tells it straight.

[Brewster Chamberlin]

Crepuscule is a common word in American English as well. I use it quite
commonly. And think of Monk's beautiful song "Crepuscule with Nellie"!
Brewster

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 2:40 AM, Marc Piel <marc at marcpiel.fr> wrote:

> "Crepuscule" is still a commun word in Fernch!
> Marc
>
> Le 27 mai 2016 à 01:06, Denise Tart & David Green <dtart at bigpond.net.au>
> a écrit :
>
> I would say there are many who have never encountered this word. Certainly
> the modern novelists and writers in English tend not to use such terms and
> my friends do at the pub would look at me strangely if I describe the dusk
> as crepuscular. As to the term 'harvest moon' being a Victorian code word
> for a normal nob, I had no idea. But thanks, I keep for the right moment
> and let it go. Anyway, there a writers one can read without recourse to a
> dictionary and writers for whom such recourse is on Occassion necessary.
> Durrell is one of the later and this is a good thing. Years ago I saw a
> French film called in English 'A Very Long Engagement. The World War One
> French soldiers called their trench 'Bingo Crepuscule'. At first I though
> it a joke name. Then I looked up Crepuscule and it made sense. Live and
> learn.
>
> David
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 26 May 2016, at 4:59 PM, Richard Pine <pinedurrellcorfu at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I'm interested that you think 'crepuscular' an obscure term. And as you
> use the term 'harvest moon' do you know that it was a Victorian codeword
> for an uncircumcised penis?
> RP
>
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 7:35 AM, Denise Tart & David Green <
> dtart at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
>> Haven't you noticed Charlock that most things in life happen just outside
>> one's range of vision? One has to see them out of the corner of one's eye.
>> And any one thing could effect any number of others? I mean there seem to
>> be always a dozen perfectly appropriate explanations to every phenomenon.
>> That is what makes our reasoning minds so unsatisfactory; and yet, they are
>> all we've got, this shabby piece of equipment."
>>
>> Count Banubula to Charlock in a bar (of course) p 100 Faber Hardback ed,
>> 1968.
>>
>> The count maybe right, indeed, this struck me as so true, the big harvest
>> moon you just can't touch. But Charlock has the Dactyl, his Abel or
>> enabler, I Should say.
>> This book is dotted with such Philosophic gems and obscure Latinate words
>> like crepuscular, part, perhaps of his Mediterranean revolt against
>> northern Saxon verbal 'Puritanism'. Stay with this book, it delivers like
>> the sun slowly rising over a broadening landscape.
>>
>> David Whitewine
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
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