Day three, a favorite quote
Last sentence of Frankenstein: "He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance."
This is just the most beautiful sad resolution to the story of the Creature's perfection and isolation.
Favorite Bible Verse: Micah 6: 8: "He has shown you, O mortal, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?"
Favorite Poem: Kublai Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
as well as I can from memory:
In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree, where Alph, the sacred river ran, through caverns measureless to man, down to a sunless sea.
There twice fives miles of fertile ground with walls and towers were girded round, and there were forests bright with sinuous rills, where blossomed many an incense bearing tree, and there were forests older than the hills, enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
...um, It was a miracle of rare device: a sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice.
But o! that deep romantic chasm that slanted down the green hill, athwart a cedarn cover-- a savage place! as holy and enchanted as eer beneath a waning moon was haunted by woman wailing for her demon lover!
... tum de dum...
floated midway on the waves
as if the earth in fast thick pants were breathing, turmoil seething, massy boulders bounding, like chaff beneath the thresher's flail
it flung up momently the sacred river
And in that tumult Kublai heard from far, ancestral voices prophesying war.
...
A damsel with a dulcimer in a vision once I saw. It was an Abyssinian maid, and on her dulcimer she played, singing of Mount Aborah. Could I revive within me her symphony and song to such a deep delight twould win me that with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, that sunny dome, those caves of ice, and all should cry to see them there, and all should cry
Beware, Beware-- His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice
and close your eyes in holy dread,
for he on honeydew hath fed,
and drunk
the milk
of paradise.
----My husband just came early from work, and of course with his actor brain he knows the whole thing perfectly by heart, but I didn't let him correct me. I can never remember the middle part. :)
This is just the most beautiful sad resolution to the story of the Creature's perfection and isolation.
Favorite Bible Verse: Micah 6: 8: "He has shown you, O mortal, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?"
Favorite Poem: Kublai Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
as well as I can from memory:
In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree, where Alph, the sacred river ran, through caverns measureless to man, down to a sunless sea.
There twice fives miles of fertile ground with walls and towers were girded round, and there were forests bright with sinuous rills, where blossomed many an incense bearing tree, and there were forests older than the hills, enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
...um, It was a miracle of rare device: a sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice.
But o! that deep romantic chasm that slanted down the green hill, athwart a cedarn cover-- a savage place! as holy and enchanted as eer beneath a waning moon was haunted by woman wailing for her demon lover!
... tum de dum...
floated midway on the waves
as if the earth in fast thick pants were breathing, turmoil seething, massy boulders bounding, like chaff beneath the thresher's flail
it flung up momently the sacred river
And in that tumult Kublai heard from far, ancestral voices prophesying war.
...
A damsel with a dulcimer in a vision once I saw. It was an Abyssinian maid, and on her dulcimer she played, singing of Mount Aborah. Could I revive within me her symphony and song to such a deep delight twould win me that with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, that sunny dome, those caves of ice, and all should cry to see them there, and all should cry
Beware, Beware-- His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice
and close your eyes in holy dread,
for he on honeydew hath fed,
and drunk
the milk
of paradise.
----My husband just came early from work, and of course with his actor brain he knows the whole thing perfectly by heart, but I didn't let him correct me. I can never remember the middle part. :)