In her latest collection of poems Twigs and
Knucklebones Sarah Lindsay revels in the pleasure of being omniscient.
He discovered a
knucklebone beneath an upholstered chair, where Grace must have stored it.
Late one night, the pirates play
knucklebones, a game like dice.
There are varied activities, such as completing a jigsaw, playing
knucklebones or writing a postcard home in Latin.
Somewhere those like us find strength to persist
Knucklebones to earth, not holding back When the body declines, to press the spirit onward Unrepentant, trying to love our lives, Our failing bodies, our failing world.
Thus in the Greek tradition the throws in the game of
knucklebones came to have allusive and learned labels.(7) The types of play and the shapes of all the objects involved were subject to great variation, and scholarship since the Renaissance has been beguiled by the fascination of discerning order and pattern in the chaotic evidence for the rules.
She joins Jok in a game of
knucklebones. Song-and-dance rhythms accelerate the displacements on-stage.
Playtime with
Knucklebones: on Saturdays, April 4, 11, 18, 25 and May 2, 9, from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m., at Clinton Parks and Recreation.
For a discussion of the tortoise in the Hymn as a toy and in relation with
knucklebones and their meaning, see Redfield 2003, 318-31.
Walberswick art historian Richard Scott has identified James Grace's brown-dressed daughters Millie and Minnie in
Knucklebones (1888-89; Fig.
In her latest collection of poems, Twigs and
Knucklebones, Sarah Lindsay revels in the pleasure of being omniscient.
Knucklebones, or astragaloi -- often the bones themselves, sometimes replicas in terracotta -- were particularly popular with girls, who played fivestones.