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Six is Nine
"The words of gods lie among us
In the glazed clay of ruin
At the source of subtle bodies to know the sky
And how it was hammered into place
Where all graces are electric
And the days are all nine
And the nights are all nine
All nine " - Nine, Neurosis -
Emphasis Mine
“ When I am in despair, I do not want to be told of re-birth; when I am aging and decaying and the civilisation around me is collapsing from its overgrowth that is over-kill, I cannot tolerate that word: “ growth”, and when I am falling to bits in my complexities, I cannot abide the defensive simplistic of mandalas, nor the sentimentalities of ( Read more... ) -
Ah, Kipling
via childeofloki
The Sack of the Gods by Rudyard Kipling
Strangers drawn from the ends of the earth, jeweled and plumed were we.
I was Lord of the Inca race, and she was Queen of the Sea.
Under the stars beyond our stars where the new-forged meteors glow
Hotly we stormed Valhalla, a million years ago.
Ever 'neath high Valhalla Hall the well-tuned horns ( Read more... ) -
On Beauty
Crikey, this is a big one. I could, of course, rattle off the various theories on Aesthetics which I encountered during my academic career, but that would be a little technical, not to mention a smidge..dry. To me, and I emphasize this is personal, beauty does not have to be pleasant. I can for example, find beauty in the efficiency of Hitler's ( Read more... ) -
For Frappe: Nights, mornings and rituals gone awrry.
Being as I do not work for anyone but myself, my weeks run into each other - days do not become about job or actions, but about activity, which varies. Friday nights, as with most - and by nights I tend to refer to the period between about 6-12 am- are either found roleplaying, or in the company of friends. Why? Because that's what I do to relax - ( Read more... ) -
On Cats for lentilthelegume
I am a Cat person. I don't dislike dogs, but in general, my liking of dogs is far more individuated than it it is of Cats. To steal a line from Neil Gaiman's Coraline:
"Cats don't need names. We know who we are."
I'm not one of these people who thinks cats are the most elegant, refined, and superior creatures known to man. They are however, People. I ( Read more... )
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