OMG! West Kingdom Choir exercise! (Actually, we kinda do it as one of the warmup syllables [ending with moo, moo, mooooooooooooooose])
What's generally less known is the throat exercises of other literary heavyweights:
- Rudyard Kipling's "sssssssssss" was an inspiration for Kaa in the Jungle Book
- Edgar Allan Poe's telltale "thump" kept his young cou^H^H^Hwife up at night. She was driven craxy by the bleating of his hideous heart-noises. And speaking of bleating...
- Robert Louis Stevenson spent much of his childhood years in Edinburgh alternately dressing as a wolf and a sheep, depending on his mood; on some evenings he was known to bay at the moon, while on others the "baaaaaaaaa"-ing was so realistic that he was accidentally completely shorn by a wandering shepherd. Later on, he adopted the more familiar phrase "Rrrrrr, Jim Lad" before discovering that it severely bruised his throat.
- T.S. Eliot just kept repeating "The Horror!", although when questioned about it, he claimed that it was in response to prophetic visions of people dancing around in fur and leotards to some of his sillier poems
- J.R.R. Tolkien took to occasionally skulking about the once-long-lost underground sub-basements at Oxford and coughing "Gollum" to graduate students foolhardy enough to venture into the deep. C.S. Lewis is said to have played a practical joke on him by leaving him a golden ring for a birthday present but with a completely illegible inscription. Rumors that Tolkien eventually deciphered the inscription by throwing it in the fire were angrily denied by his son, who claims to still have it in custody.
- No one ever figured out what H.P. Lovecraft incessantly chanted under his breath, but plenty of people went mad trying to figure it out.
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Date: 2005-05-26 10:48 pm (UTC)What's generally less known is the throat exercises of other literary heavyweights:
- Rudyard Kipling's "sssssssssss" was an inspiration for Kaa in the Jungle Book
- Edgar Allan Poe's telltale "thump" kept his young cou^H^H^Hwife up at night. She was driven craxy by the bleating of his hideous heart-noises. And speaking of bleating...
- Robert Louis Stevenson spent much of his childhood years in Edinburgh alternately dressing as a wolf and a sheep, depending on his mood; on some evenings he was known to bay at the moon, while on others the "baaaaaaaaa"-ing was so realistic that he was accidentally completely shorn by a wandering shepherd. Later on, he adopted the more familiar phrase "Rrrrrr, Jim Lad" before discovering that it severely bruised his throat.
- T.S. Eliot just kept repeating "The Horror!", although when questioned about it, he claimed that it was in response to prophetic visions of people dancing around in fur and leotards to some of his sillier poems
- J.R.R. Tolkien took to occasionally skulking about the once-long-lost underground sub-basements at Oxford and coughing "Gollum" to graduate students foolhardy enough to venture into the deep. C.S. Lewis is said to have played a practical joke on him by leaving him a golden ring for a birthday present but with a completely illegible inscription. Rumors that Tolkien eventually deciphered the inscription by throwing it in the fire were angrily denied by his son, who claims to still have it in custody.
- No one ever figured out what H.P. Lovecraft incessantly chanted under his breath, but plenty of people went mad trying to figure it out.
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Date: 2005-05-27 01:54 pm (UTC)-Harlan Ellison uses a variant: "Me, me, me!"