If cardboard was money . . .

I'd be rich!

Hal was throwing out a bunch of old boxes so I lay claim to them and now I have a trunkful of cardboard. Some boxes will be used in their proper manner, but others I believe will be donated to art, bwah ha ha ha! Yes . . . *nods*

PSST! Bastek!

*points.* Ye' be on Yerf m'friend!

They Might Be Giants rock . . .

"If you'd like to hear this drum solo in spanish press or say TWO!"
crowd: "TWO!"

I write poetry!

Erm . . . kinda. Just had the first two lines stuck in my head for over a year and I finally decided to put them to use.

Kywehn's loss
You taught me how to fly
and then you clipped my wings.
I had the freedom to soar
but I was then found caged.
The same hand that caressed
bloodied my once strong frame.
What was once a song of joy
faded into a shriek of terror.
Light fell to dark
Joy to sorrow
All is gone
Everything lost
Faded to black.

Really didn't intend it to be Kywehn's feelings of when she was outcast, but it seemed to fit. Though her design is already over a year old, Kywehn's character is actually not very well developed. I think this helped to form that.

I think people tend to be surprised when they find out that a depressing, or at least somewhat dark poem was written when said poet wasn't necessarily depressed or sad. Words just come and you have to put them out. Same as with my writing. Hmm, I think that's my writing for the week, harr. Still need to finish editing TTF and then tacking on part six and the beginnings of seven.

Because it's what every library, personal or not, needs

I bought an old, falling apart leather-bound book that, judging by a rough guess at the roman numerals at the front (curse their romans and lack of effecient numbering!), it was printed in 1887.

The initial reason for buying the book was "every library needs an old, leather-bound book that's falling apart to be complete."

But now I know the REAL reason! It's found in this quote!:
"The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts that some idle books under the bench at the Latin School. What we do not call education is more precious that that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of recieving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thward and baulk this natrual magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it." ~R.W. Emerson

And it's true!







and I should be in bed . .. *reads more*

Another quote from Emerson

"There is less intention in history than we ascribe to it. We impute deep-laid, far-sighted plans to Caesar and Napoleon; but the best of their power was in nature, not in them. Men of an extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, 'Not unto us, not unto us.'"

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"Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?"~Emerson

In reply, I think the answer to this rethorical question that I would give, is "no."

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Hmm . . . This Emerson guy seems to scream "I'm a transcendentalist!"

"Our Sunday schools and churches and pauper societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody."~Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson's Essays. "Spiritual Laws." Page 91.

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*is acutally going to bed now . . .*