ATDTDA 724... CLAMOROUS DESCENT

Tue Feb 5 08:16:23 CST 2008

!My Observation: Web search of clamorous descent
turned up many poets and autofellatio-cognosati.

Edgar Allan Poe: A Descent Into the Maelstrom
  -- http://books.eserver.org/fiction/poe/thou_art_the_man.html
  Books: Edgar Allan Poe: Thou Art the Man

Claims of long descent, 667.
Clamorous faction gagged and bound, 788.
Clamours, Jove’s dread, 154.
  -- http://www.bartleby.com/100/s49.html
  Concordance Index Page 49. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

Dead, long dead, Long dead! And my heart is a handful of dust, And the wheels go 
over my head, And my bones are shaken with pain, For into a shallow grave they 
are thrust, Only a yard beneath the street, And the hoofs of the horses beat, 
beat, The hoofs of the horses beat, Beat into my scalp and my brain, With never 
an end to the stream of passing feet, Driving, hurrying, marrying, burying, 
Clamour and rumble, and ringing and clatter, And here beneath it is all as bad, 
For I thought the dead had peace, but it is not so; To have no peace in the 
grave, is that not sad? But up and down and to and fro, Ever about me the dead 
men go; And then to hear a dead man chatter Is enough to drive one mad.
  -- http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/T/TennysonAlfred/verse/maud/maud.html
  Maud; A Monodrama - Maud, and Other Poems - Alfred Tennyson, Book, etext

Lana began to climb up the boulder and as soon as her head reached the top, all 
she saw was the head and wings of another archangel. He didn’t seem to notice 
her, though her descent was quite clamorous. She took that time to observe the 
person in front of her. He had light blue, feathery wings, and his hair was a 
complimentary dark blue. He had on the same kind of armor as the other one, but 
his was black instead.
  -- http://www.angelfire.com/co3/divinestoryteller/LanaLai.htm
  Lana Lai looked around her dank, dark prison

May clamorous thunder descent from these clear sunny Portuguese skies right into 
my eyeballs if I can grasp any reason why you get published at the Inquirer.
  -- http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/03/22/you-allowed-this-twittering-twatapuss-onto-your-pages
  You allowed this twittering twatapuss onto your pages?! - The INQUIRER

The men had put down their crosses. The women had passed their cocktails to the 
south Indian waiters. All watched Loki and Biron's sweaty, clamorous descent. 
The pilgrims gaped and mouthed silence to the pair. The only sound that could be 
heard was the ship's engine, Loki/St. Michael's gargled Greek, Biron/Satan's 
Arabic wail and, of course, Lolita Aphrodite's song 'The Beauty You Give Me' 
(oozing inexorably out of the bar's stereo).
  -- http://intellectualbrothel.blogspot.com/2007/11/blog-post_13.html
  The Intellectual Brothel:

But a vast & clamorous tribe claims descent from those insubstantial hips.
  -- http://www.vianegativa.us/2005/06/page/5/
  Via Negativa » 2005 » June

"Wake up, Starsky . . . come on, wake up . . . We've got to get out of here." 
Something tugged painfully at his shoulders. Slowly, Starsky opened his eyes. It 
hurt. All he could see was blue sky, occasionally obscured by a wisp of black 
smoke. Maybe he was dead and the smoke . . . No, his head hurt too much and that 
insistent voice that kept disturbing him was annoyingly familiar.
  -- http://www.squidge.org/flamingo/starskyhutchslash/classic/Rosemary/endoftheline.htm
  End of the Line by Rosemary

The contrast is also more marked because Schatzberger uses a copy of the 
original clarinet in A, as played by Richard Muhlfeld, more mellifluous, less 
pungent in tone than the modern clarinet yet still with sufficient dark hue for 
the descent to louder, more clamorous material at 0:33.
  -- http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2007/Mar07/BRAHMS_Clarinet_Quintet_CKD278.htm
  BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet CKD278 [MG]: Classical CD Reviews - March 2007 MusicWeb-International

Autumn, by eyes unseen, Is heard in the wind's anger; the clamorous descent And 
the clash of river-reeds, Of wild-geese searching The home-field's face, Clouds 
shaped like leaves of rice,--all these To watchful eyes foretell the evening 
storm.
  -- http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/npj/npj29.htm
  The Noh Plays of Japan: Chapter V: The Hoka Priests

Hence, a somewhat steep descent sweeps downward to the ferry, which is generally 
crowded with bales of merchandise, piles of fruit, laden donkeys, lounging 
hadjis, and busy boatmen, clamorous for passengers;
  -- http://www.htl-steyr.ac.at/~holz/pardoe/texte/121skutari.html
  The Beauties Of The Bosphorus; by Miss Pardoe

There's been no clamoring to intern Americans of Middle Eastern descent since 
the terrorist attack of Sept. 11.
  -- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5248/is_200110/ai_n19977954
  Not So Fast.(terrorist attacks bring harsh legislation)(Brief Article)(Column) | Arkansas Business | Find Articles at BNET.com

At the foot of the descent a little stream forced its way with clamorous 
perseverance over the rocks with which the bed was filled.
  -- http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/colonial-7.shtml
  Colonial Quest - On Rambling Driving Trips ( Originally Published 1907 )

In retrospect, the barest idea of a sudden, lone descent into such a doubtful 
abyss - and at a time when one's whereabouts were unknown to any living soul - 
seems like the utter apex of insanity. Perhaps it was - yet that night I 
embarked without hesitancy upon such a descent.
  -- http://tmoct.co.uk/lovecraft/shadowtime.htm
  The Shadow Out of Time

Doubtless his hereditary Dutch tendencies impelled him that way; in his veins 
flowed the rich red blood of those strong races, instinct with the joy of life, 
which, people the Low Countries, and hidden away in a crevice of his brain there 
lingered some inconsequent memory of those clamorous Kermesses, and of the full 
free life and quickly gratified appetites and instincts of his peaceable 
deep-drinking ancestors.
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Durtal emerges victorious, ah! hardly victorious, for his is not that supreme 
power, the power to crush one's doubts; but he is ready for the descent of 
grace, his soul opens like the calyx of a beautiful flower too long deprived of 
the light of the sun.
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The rare splendour of Gustave Moreau with its magnificent appeal, the 
Persécutions Religieuses of the Dutch engraver, Jan Luyken, "full of abominable 
imaginations," "the fantasy of disease and grief" of Odilon Redon, the Caprices 
et Proverbes of Goya with their "horror of death" (horreur si macabre) - in 
fact, all that is visionary, overstrained, and exaggerated in art, all that 
transfigures or deforms reality enchanted Des Esseintes.
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Agitation, ambition, and worldly care can touch him no more; here he dwells 
secure, wrapped in that sublime egoism which looks to God alone, offering 
himself as a sacrifice for his own future, building up an eternity of celestial 
joy. GABRIEL MOUREY. (Translated from M. Mourey's French MS. by J. E. H.)
  -- http://www.huysmans.org/mourey.htm
  Fortnightly Review

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Glenn Scheper
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