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Audio: Readings by the author
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Visitor:
Laying on my sofa one night listening to Erik Satie Gymnopédie, I fell into a deep sleep with a Jesus College Cambridge tie of red and black around my neck [wishful thinking as not a university in the land would have accepted me!].
I was woken at some point during the night by a woman with long golden hair.
In greeting she raised a hand, introduced herself as Sylvie, and spoke the words:
‘Salvē.’
Then placing the silk fabric between thumb and forefinger said:
‘Nice tie.’
After rising in the morning, I asked my father, Donald, who had a passion for linguistics, what the word Savlē meant? Da told me that the word is a greeting with Latin roots, meaning Hello or Hail, and that in Roman times it was used as a command ’Be well!’.
I have no explanation for this visitation.
Laying on my sofa one night listening to Erik Satie Gymnopédie, I fell into a deep sleep with a Jesus College Cambridge tie of red and black around my neck [wishful thinking as not a university in the land would have accepted me!].
I was woken at some point during the night by a woman with long golden hair.
In greeting she raised a hand, introduced herself as Sylvie, and spoke the words:
‘Salvē.’
Then placing the silk fabric between thumb and forefinger said:
‘Nice tie.’
After rising in the morning, I asked my father, Donald, who had a passion for linguistics, what the word Savlē meant? Da told me that the word is a greeting with Latin roots, meaning Hello or Hail, and that in Roman times it was used as a command ’Be well!’.
I have no explanation for this visitation.