Until I could start seeing the white of
knucklebones. Now I am finally cured of the habit.
Sarah Lindsay; TWIGS AND
KNUCKLEBONES; Copper Canyon Press $0.00 ISBN: 9781556591648
"Twigs &
Knucklebones" is the work of an accomplished and skilled poet in Sarah Lindsay, with several volumes of poetry under her belt.
Gogo's were inspired by a game played in Ancient Greece called "astragals", where children played with sheep's
knucklebones.
Bone artefacts (Figure 4) are represented by drilled
knucklebones, a plaque with ring and dot ornament, brushes (resembling a modern toothbrush) and plates of a bow made of antler.
He was given a guided tour of the city and he then entertained Isabella by playing
knucklebones with her.
Children in ancient Greece played fivestones thousands of years ago--only then they played with the
knucklebones of sheep instead of pebbles.
"There are five kinds of bones in every hospital: (1) the jawbones (who do all the talking); (2) the wishbones (who spend their time wishing someone else would do the work); (3) the
knucklebones (who knock everything anyone ever tries to do); (4) the backbones (who get under the load and do the work; and finally (5) the funnybones (who lighten the load for everyone)." (Goodman, 1989).
A sampling of topics includes the diet of Washington's soldiers at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-78; the use of cattle in prehistoric Sardinia from the evidence of bronze statuettes; and the use of astragali (animal
knucklebones) in various cultural practices throughout history.
Their divining is, however, disturbed by a miraculous event: the
knucklebones used by these witch-doctors are all picked up and swallowed by black hawks.
Carefree young girls play
knucklebones. They carry one another piggyback as punishment for not hitting a target with stones or balls in the popular game of ephedrismos, and bare-armed, bare-faced, and bare-ankled they are taught to dance.
To show his good intentions, John brought her treats, stopping on his way home from work at a butcher shop to buy
knucklebones. When Grace leaped up and whimpered and danced as John was opening the door, he would drop his briefcase and reach into a plastic bag to retrieve and show Grace what he had brought her.
Although the possible existence of word-initial lengthening in Spanish cannot be ruled out a priori and in the absence of experimental results, the fact is that Spanish speakers and linguists generally agree that sequences such as se para 's/he stops' and separa 's/he separates', contabas 'you counted' and con tabas 'with
knucklebones' or el cano 'the gray-haired one' and Elcano 'a surname' are completely homophonous.
