Thursday, September 26, 2013

Denis Brodeur RIIP : Embroidery's Cutting Edge (UPDATE)

The Deaths in 2013 site lists under September 26:
He's the third hockey player to die in the last 10 days... which wouldn't be much of a deal except for the following excerpt from my earlier post today re Johannes van Dam RIIP and "That Dyke Dutchman":
Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (full title: Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates: A Story of Life in Holland) is a novel by American author Mary Mapes Dodge, first published in 1865. 
The surname Brodeur is interesting ... similar to "Brother", which would be in keeping with my previous post re: "the bar"/"de bar".   And check out the etymology re http://surnames.behindthename.com/name/brodeur:
 Means "embroiderer" in French.
The word embroider is related to "braid"
 braid (v.) Look up braid at Dictionary.com"to plait, knit, weave, twist together," c.1200, breidan, from Old English bregdan "to move quickly, pull, shake, swing, throw (in wrestling), draw (a sword); bend, weave, knit, join together; change color, vary; scheme, feign, pretend" (class III strong verb, past tensebrægd, past participle brogden), from Proto-Germanic *bregthan "make sudden jerky movements from side to side" (cf. Old Norse bregða "to brandish, turn about, braid;" Old Saxon bregdan "to weave;" Dutch breien "to knit;" Old High German brettan "to draw, weave, braid"), from PIE root *bherek- "to gleam, flash" (cf. Sanskrit bhrasate "flames, blazes, shines"). In English the verb survives only in the narrow definition of "plait hair." Related: Braidedbraiding.
Hence adding to the "Hair/Hare/Heir/Harry..." pattern-cluster.
As far as his first name, Denis, it originates from Zeus:
The name of a Greek god, related to the old Indo-European god *Dyeus whose name probably meant "shine" or "sky". 
Of course ice hockey and skating are much more aggressive a pass time than embroidery... and perhaps thats the point.

The point being that if hockey players diversified by mixing in a little needle point to their training regime, they may end up with a game winning cutting edge that they'd never expect, butt it's doubtful that they would buy it let alone try it.  Though women might be more easily convinced.

After awhile it dawned on me that the inner twin world is putting us through a training session... and we are supposed to think cryptically when it comes to their communicating: put on our "3 is half of 8" thinking caps.  So perhaps the contrast re: embroider/hockey skates is meant to evoke in us another kind of contrast-- figure skater/Hockey player... after all, figure skating is a profession that more readily available to women...  as a kind of "embroidery using your skates as the needle point"... and wait a minute... wasn't there a movie about a guy who put up his hockey skates for ice skates?!  A little bit of googling and le voi la... I find a movie called "The Cutting Edge"... go figure 8 that!!  Note the following that stands out from the movies wiki page under the Soundtrack section:
First of all, Johnny is an addition to the recent "John/Jack/Joanne/Jean/Jones/Hans... " pattern-cluster, and secondly his surname is an addition to the recent "Winter/White/North/Christmas/Hail/Hoar Frost/January..." pattern-cluster.  What I found most interesting in regards to Johnny Winter is this photo at right of he and his brother... do note their naturally "white"/"Hoar Frost" hair!!   And of course there's the "Shame Shame Shame"... as in shame, shame, shame for yanking down the inner twin world's pants (you'll have to read my previous post to get that one)





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