Monday, October 31, 2005


All Of Them Witches:
What's In A Name?




"The name is an anagram."

Remember Rosemary dumping the Scrabble letters on the floor to solve Hutch's dying clue?

She thought the "name" was the title of the book Hutch had meant to send her (All Of Them Witches), but the "name" turned out to be an anagram of "Steven Marcato" (Roman Castevet).

Spooky, wasn't it?

Today's a most fitting day to explore some other interesting anagrams:

To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

And the Anagram:

In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.

Even spookier...

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind--
Neil Armstrong

The Anagram:

A thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet,
pins flag on moon. On to mars.


And the spookiest...

RONALD WILSON REAGAN

The Anagram:

INSANE ANGLO WARLORD

And there's this...

ANAGRAM

The Anagram:

A Ragman*

*This is how the Devil is described in Bob Dylan's "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again" (1966) which begins:

Oh, the ragman draws circles
Up and down the block


Certainly something to think about on Hallowe'en.








Hallowe'en started out as an innocent harvest festival, which had to be demonized by the church in order to dampen its popularity.

Today, Samhain Hallowe'en is the no. 2 money-making holiday...

Second only to Yule Christmas.

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