- You know I really appreciate Hawkes having clumped a few temporally linked ones together, to create a sense of evolving narrative. - Huh I like this recurring imagery of grand houses as ‘many doors’ - Remembrancer: a person who reminds another of something. a person engaged to do this. a reminder; memento; souvenir. (usually initial capital letter) King's Remembrancer. - Omissioners: not a typo. Crops up in more Tang historical texts. I can’t really find out what IS though. Possibly memorisation specialists? - Levée: The levee (from the French word lever, meaning "getting up" or "rising")[1] was traditionally a daily moment of intimacy and accessibility to a monarch or leader. It started out as a royal custom, but in British America it came to refer to a reception by the sovereign’s representative, which continues to be a tradition in Canada with the New Year's levee; in the United States a similar gathering was held by several presidents. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levee_(ceremony)#For_the_aristocracy) - *Sighs in SV* yeah I—also know Yuan is wall. - Jiū-jiū: this fucking guy again! - “little bells which hung beneath the eaves of the palace roofs.”: Oh, huh - ninefold sky: ?
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Re: 8. 春宿左省 Chūn sù zuǒ-shěng
Date: 2021-10-04 01:24 pm (UTC)- Huh I like this recurring imagery of grand houses as ‘many doors’
- Remembrancer: a person who reminds another of something. a person engaged to do this. a reminder; memento; souvenir. (usually initial capital letter) King's Remembrancer.
- Omissioners: not a typo. Crops up in more Tang historical texts. I can’t really find out what IS though. Possibly memorisation specialists?
- Levée: The levee (from the French word lever, meaning "getting up" or "rising")[1] was traditionally a daily moment of intimacy and accessibility to a monarch or leader. It started out as a royal custom, but in British America it came to refer to a reception by the sovereign’s representative, which continues to be a tradition in Canada with the New Year's levee; in the United States a similar gathering was held by several presidents. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levee_(ceremony)#For_the_aristocracy)
- *Sighs in SV* yeah I—also know Yuan is wall.
- Jiū-jiū: this fucking guy again!
- “little bells which hung beneath the eaves of the palace roofs.”: Oh, huh
- ninefold sky: ?