Plus my only natural talent's wasted

[sovay]

I sat down to write up this weekend and the bits and pieces of news that I've been reminding myself to report since last Thursday, but my brain has gone to slurry.* Consequently, I am forced to fall back on other people's brains for my entertainment. Don't let me down here.

So. I saw this done once with icons. If you want to comment on this post, you must do so in quotation. If you want to respond to a comment, you must do so in quotation. Prose, poetry, film, television, song lyrics, academic criticism, all are fair game; the language is likewise left to your discretion, although I cannot promise that you won't be asked to provide translations. Neither will I stipulate that you must be able to identify the quotation to which you are responding, although more power to you if you can. Quote characters who are already speaking in quotation, if you feel like it.** Now watch a total radio silence fall.

"Is anybody there?" said the Traveler . . .

*I blame this partly on the fact that I'm reading what must be the perkiest whaler's journal ever. A sample entry: December 10. Saturday. Set in, bright & beautiful! 9 AM raised "Right Whales!!!!!" Lowered! The Larboard Boat went on & struck a fine one! He tried hard to get away but the lance "hurt his feelings" and in consequence, he was a dead whale at 22 AM!! 3 PM Cut in. 7 PM Boiling! You think I'm making those exclamation points up.

**And if you are Pamela Dean, you should properly be started with a handicap . . .

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[sovay]

The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monuments mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.

[scanner-darkly.livejournal.com]

To be conscious is not to be in time
But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden,
The moment in the arbour where the rain beat,
The moment in the draughty church at smokefall
Be remembered; involved with past and future.
Only through time time is conquered.

[larryhammer]

Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

[sovay]

When you understand that—then any time at all will be the right time for you.

[larryhammer]

I understand, and grow, and see
The rafters of my body, bone

[scanner-darkly.livejournal.com]

So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.

[sovay]

Webster was much possessed by death
And saw the skull beneath the skin . . .

[larryhammer]

At birth, and death, our bodies naked are,
And till our Soules be unapparrelled
Of bodies, they from blisse are banished.

[sovay]

But time is not mine to control . . . only to tease a little.

[scanner-darkly.livejournal.com]

this is the place where time reverses
dead men talk to all the pretty nurses
instruments shine on a silver tray
don't let me get carried away

[sovay]

This is the place where all the devils plead
Their case to take from you what they need

[larryhammer]

Love, any devil else but you
Would for a given soul give something too.

[sovay]

Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.