Pollex Christi Pollex Christi Pollex Christi ("The Thumb of Christ") was the first of Ralph America's limited edition CDs by the Residents. It is thought to be a solo studio project by the band's keyboardist and main composer Hardy Fox. The 20-minute synthesizer piece is made up entirely of quoted material, mostly works by famous German composers, including Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Orff's Carmina Burana, with a few American television show tunes added in. The piece was purportedly composed by the friend and collaborator from their early years, N. Senada, and in some ways plays on classical themes the same way their
The Tremulous Hand of Worcester Hand of Worcester’s varied glosses, Christine Franzen, a literary scholar, has categorized his work into seven "layers": Franzen, however, commented informally at a later date that identification of as many as seven layers was perhaps "over zealous". Notable glosses by the Tremulous Hand occur in Ælfric of Eynsham's "Grammar" and "Glossary", and in the Worcester manuscripts, St. Bede's Lament, The Soul’s Address to the Body and an Old English translation of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum. The Tremulous Hand is also thought to have glossed a segment of the Bodleian manuscript "Junius", which contains the earliest Middle English translation of