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It's crazy the kind of defenses people put up when you accidently punture their ego.
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I am constantly impressed by the Harry Potter movies. I’m a big fan of the books, and of course there is a lot cut out from the books to make the movies…but come on, I’m a comic book fan, so I’m used to that. It’s crazy the amount they have to cut out to make the movie, but yet they still keep the major plot intact. Good movie, now I’m excited for the book later this week.
Along those lines, I can’t believe the number of people I’ve talked to who want to only read the last chapter of the book. I wish I had my copy of dark tower 7, because King writes a great Coda in the book, dealing with just that kind of mentality, talking about Ithaka, and live for the journey, not the destination.
Or even worse, I’ve heard people saying they want to read it so they can post it on their blogs and spoil it for other people. Holy crap, what kind of life do you live if that sounds like fun to you? And what’s odd is that if some one were to come up to me, even some one I didn’t know, and tell me the end of the book, big deal, I was gonna find out eventually anyway, but it would make me take pause, and think “Sheesh, what kind of person are you? Get a life.”
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In all these years of wishing to be a Hero, I’ve come across a number of people that I’ve been able to help fix a situation. Make something better, help someone through a hard spot, or help him or her get over something from the past. More often then not it’s someone that I don’t really know all that well, and I end up getting to know them through this process. But in all these years there are people, people who are close to me, that I just can’t seem to make things any better for. It’s frustrating to see the handfuls of people I’ve been able to help through things, and see that the people closest to me are the ones I’m still drawing blanks with when it comes to answers.
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Hmm, since I can’t find the Dark Tower, instead, Ithaka.
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Ithaka
Translated by
Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard
As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon-don't be afraid of them:
you'll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon-you won't encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.
Hope your road is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind-
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.
Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you're destined for.
But don't hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you're old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you've gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.
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As always, I had so many more things to write about, but once I’ve sat down to do it, half of them slip away and are lost to the ages.
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I am constantly impressed by the Harry Potter movies. I’m a big fan of the books, and of course there is a lot cut out from the books to make the movies…but come on, I’m a comic book fan, so I’m used to that. It’s crazy the amount they have to cut out to make the movie, but yet they still keep the major plot intact. Good movie, now I’m excited for the book later this week.
Along those lines, I can’t believe the number of people I’ve talked to who want to only read the last chapter of the book. I wish I had my copy of dark tower 7, because King writes a great Coda in the book, dealing with just that kind of mentality, talking about Ithaka, and live for the journey, not the destination.
Or even worse, I’ve heard people saying they want to read it so they can post it on their blogs and spoil it for other people. Holy crap, what kind of life do you live if that sounds like fun to you? And what’s odd is that if some one were to come up to me, even some one I didn’t know, and tell me the end of the book, big deal, I was gonna find out eventually anyway, but it would make me take pause, and think “Sheesh, what kind of person are you? Get a life.”
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In all these years of wishing to be a Hero, I’ve come across a number of people that I’ve been able to help fix a situation. Make something better, help someone through a hard spot, or help him or her get over something from the past. More often then not it’s someone that I don’t really know all that well, and I end up getting to know them through this process. But in all these years there are people, people who are close to me, that I just can’t seem to make things any better for. It’s frustrating to see the handfuls of people I’ve been able to help through things, and see that the people closest to me are the ones I’m still drawing blanks with when it comes to answers.
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Hmm, since I can’t find the Dark Tower, instead, Ithaka.
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Ithaka
Translated by
Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard
As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon-don't be afraid of them:
you'll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon-you won't encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.
Hope your road is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind-
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.
Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you're destined for.
But don't hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you're old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you've gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.
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As always, I had so many more things to write about, but once I’ve sat down to do it, half of them slip away and are lost to the ages.