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Nice of You to ShowI so totally fell in love with this picture
Artist: Sam 'Zephyri' Hogg
Gallery: http://samhogg.elfwood.com/ 7:38 PM - 11/21/2008 - comments {0} - post commentFairy SpiritFairy Spirit
Spellbound beauty dances in the shadows
with lovers bond
in her song
she is
fae
11:48 AM - 11/21/2008 - comments {0} - post commentSweet NightingaleSweet Nightingale
Oh, sweet Nightingale
your voice a silver light
the darkness grows pale
With you my heart cannot fail
through the grayness catch a sight
oh, sweet Nightingale
Held dear as the sacred grail
elixir of my delight
the darkness grows pale
When left so alone and frail
winter winds blow afright
oh, sweet Nightingale
Shelter me from pounding hail
may your warmth hold tight
the darkness grows pale
Upon our dreams we sail
bitter storms we fight
oh, sweet Nightingale
the darkness grows pale
11:52 AM - 11/20/2008 - comments {0} - post commentLady MoonLady Moon
A stir in the air lingers in my hair
soft descending mist adorns me
whispered prayers on the water
shimmer in her light
the haunted hymn rose
in homage to
the lady
dressed in
blue
10:22 AM - 11/18/2008 - comments {0} - post commentUnleashedUnleashed
Passion
uncontrolled raging fever
blinding all sense and reason
quaking through my body
Love
3:31 PM - 11/17/2008 - comments {0} - post commentThe LoversShe
watched the
shadows pass
as the rain fell
listening to sad songs
play on the radio
slipping into her sorrow
forever lost in emptiness
the darkness encroaches, closing in
her eyes close bit by bit, her breath escapes
while on a distant plain far far away
the sadness fell like a guillotine
a splash of blood stains the marble
vacant eyes stare to the sky
forever a starless night
no more words spoken
worlds apart
and yet so
close is
He
1:00 PM - 11/16/2008 - comments {0} - post commentInternation Reading List ~ UpdateA while back I posted a list of books called My Personal Reading List, which was a collection of books gathered from the recomendations of others on Non-American/English liteature. So I thought I would post ratings and prehaps breif reviews about each of the books I have read from that list.
Anna Karnine ~ Tolstoy
Rating: * * * *
I found this to be a rather charming, though not nessciarly happy, and interesting book upon love and relationships, it is the story that looks at several different relationships, and how each individual previces there loves, and thier ideas about relationships, from the devoted faithful young couple struggling through marraige, to the adultress, and a devoted loving wife, with the womanizing husband. This book is very passionate and moving, but it also gives a rather realistic glimpse into life and love.
Madame Bovary ~ Flaubert
Rating: * * *
It starts out a bit slow and kind of dry, in the begining I did not find that the main characters really grabbed my attention. But the second part of the book it does begin to get intersting and the story picks up more. You are introduced to a new set of characters that I find to be all rather entertaining in someways even comical. It is a tragic love story of a young woman Emma who is discontent with her husband, a not very ambitious doctor who is content where he is, and spends most his time away working leaving his wife alone to day dream of a more exciting life.
The Metamorphosis ~ Kafka
Rating: * * * *
This is a bazzar story that is touched by both humur and sadness. It starts out in a rather comical fashion but as the story progresses it becomes more emotional, and yet still a thread of comody prevades throughout. The story is about a pool family who is being supported by thier son, Gregor. When one day Gregor wakes up to discover he had over night metamorphed into a giant insect. Not knowing what to do about him his family at first keeps him locked within his room and with his condition they begin to gradullay decline.
Death in Venice ~ Mann
Rating: * * *
The story is a bit tedious to read, particularly at the beginning, though it does pick up more as it goes along. It is a fairly slow moving story of a more physiological nature. The majority of the story revolves around the mind/thoughts/philosophies of Gustave, the main character. There is not a lot that actually happens in the story as far as physical movement goes. Gustave, who seems to be a man coming to his middle ages, is suddenly struck with the desire and need to travel, and so he goes to Venice, while there staying at his hotel is a Polish family, with a young lad with whom Gustave falls in love. Though he never actually directly approaches the boy, but becomes obsessed and fascinated with the lad and spends his days watching the boy from a distance. I thought that the ending of the story was very beautiful though sad.
The Stranger ~ Camus
Rating: * * * *
I thought this book was excellent. I could really relate to the main character who was the narrator of the story. He stood outside of the normal bounds of socity, and tended to go through life with a rather apathetic feeling. And tended to be emtionally distant. He ended up getting mixed up in some trouble because of a frined of his, and had to go to trial and during the course of the trail he was crucificed becasue he did not experince things in the way that was considered to be proper and normal, and socially acceptiable. As well the fact that he was an anthiest shocked and horrified others, and he was painted to look like some sort of inhuman monster. The book was marvelouslly written, and very provocative.
Youth, Beautiful Youth ~ Hermann Hesse
Rating: * * * *
The prose of Hermann Hesse is stunning and beautiful and it moves so fluidly. I love his work, and I always feel a connection with his writing, as if I truly understand where he is coming from, and as if his works speak to me. This was a wonderful story filled with rich flowing verses. The story is about a young man who was something of a misfit as a child, and as he began to enter manhood, set off on his own in the world. Now on Holiday he returns home a successful business man and has a breif moment to relive some of the moments of his childhood, as well as have some new expeirncess before he must set back out into the world again.
Mona Lisa ~ Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Rating: * * *
It starts out a bit slow, but than it picks up more into an interesting story, upon a subject that is often the topic of discussion, and wonder. Mona Lisa's smile. The story is set in the Renisance, in Florence which is occupied by the French. Becasue the King of France was a lover of art a troup of soiliders by a visit to Leanardo da Vinic, when one of the young Frenchman sees the Mona Lisa he falls in love instantly and demands to know the woman behind the painting. When he discovers the model was the wife of a Nobleman, who has been dead for 2 years, in his love he refuses to beleive she can be dead, and convinces himself of a conspiracy in which the beautiful woman is being held prisoner, and he must resuce her.
Rock Crystal ~ Adalbert Stifter
Rating: * * *
This story has a very fairy tale like aspect of it. In some ways it reminds me of Hanzel and Gretal, but there also seems to be a bit of Lovecraft in some elements of the story as well. Though it is not a horror story, it is more of a story of the sublime. It tells the adventure of two children who on thier way home from visiting with thier grandparents get caught up within a snow storm. It does read a bit slow particuarly at the beginning of the story.
The Bachelor's Death ~ Arthur Schnitzler
Rating: * * *
This is a strange little story, which has a bit of dark humur to it, and a malecious sense of wit and irony. The story is about a Bachelor who died, and he had written a list of all his friend's whom he wanted gathered around him at his death. There were 5 in total but only 3 were able to make it, as many had lost touch with him, they could not understand why they had been choosen. A note written by the Bachelor addressed to them is found, and its contents reveals a secert that connects them all but affects them each in a different way.
Kannitverstan ~ Johann Peter Hebel
Rating * * * *
This is a rather short story, but it must enjoyable to read. It is a mix of humur and sorrow. The story is about a German Journeyman who travels to Ansterdam and a simple misunderstanding in langauge leads the German to enlightement, and leaves him with an unforgettable life lesson.
Krambambuli ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Ratig: * * * *
In some ways this story made me angry, and I did not completely agree with the message behind the story, but it was quite well written, and it was a good story, even if I was not in agreement with it. It was the story of a dog, and the love of a master. About the importance of the bond between man and mans best frined, and the imporantance of loyalty and obedience, and everlasting feelings of love. It is a bit brutal and sad.
Cardiac Suture ~ Ernst Weiss
Rating: * * *
I do not think this story was written with the intent of being "horror" but it does have a physchological horror asepct to it. For anyone who has seen the movie Awake, parts of it remind me of that.It is about a young woman going through a new recently discovered heart surgery but a problem occurs with the anesthesia, and the story is written, as if from her point of view of hearing everything going on while they are operating.
The Friend in the Closet ~ Herman Kesten
Rating: * * *
This is a very distrubing story and quite dark in nature. It isa story that questions morality. It takes place during the time of the rise of Hitler in Germany, and a German family who is visisted by a Jewish man who was a friend to the fmaily, and who fears for his life. The story deals with the difficult posistion the fmaily is put in, and just what they should or could do, and an event which huants the family.
Zerline, the Old Servant Girl ~ Hermann Broch
Rating: * *
I have to say I did not really care for this story. It seemed long, drawn out, and farily boring. As well though I am sure it was intended to have some sort of moral lesson, it felt a bit pointless to me. The story was about a man with whom has an uncanny ablity for earning money and attracting it too him but he is does not care for the money. So he decdies to go away for a while. An old servant woman in the bording house he is staying begins to tell him her life story which is all about lust, love, revenge, which all sound like it should be exciting, but it does not pan out that way in this story. I fail to see where the woman's story connects with the life of the man whom she decides to tell it to.
Unexpexted Reunion ~ Johann Peter Hebel
Rating: * * * *
This is a rather short story but I liked it very much. It is a story about love that is ever lasting and endures. A love that cannot be eroded by time or death. It is a very moving story, that is touched both in saddness and tenderness. Becasue it is so short, I cannot say much more about it, without giving it away completely.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ~ Murakami
Rating: * * * *
This was a rather marvelous story. It took on a very surreal quality, and almost dream like. It is quite comical in many reguards, as well as touched with saddness. It followed a rather remarkable journey, and a cast of most unusual characters. I thought it was a very fantastic book and quite unlike anything I have read before.
Books in Progress:
TBA 9:06 AM - 11/16/2008 - comments {0} - post commentNight ThoughtsNight Thoughts As night falls I must be honest with myself In the darkness the soul is in the most turmoil Every star another lost thought eternally trying to reach out But always held within the same place unable to connect 8:33 PM - 11/14/2008 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekExperience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted ~ Italian Proverb8:46 AM - 11/14/2008 - comments {0} - post commentWhat Christianity and Communism have in commonUpon reflection I have come to a conclusion. Christianity is like Communism.
Now what I mean by that is the fact that body might sound like a great ideology, the key were being "ideal" but it is when you throw in the human element that things end up going very wrong, and when things become oppressive, hateful, violent, negative. I have always said that I never had a problem with the religion Christianity in of itself, but what I have a problem with is Christians, and the two are often very different things. Both Communism and Christianity on paper might look great but there is just no way in which human beings are capable of practicing either of these systems in their pure form. It is always when someone tries to implement them that they become corrupt. Just the way that whenever a government tries to actually put Communism into practice, they twist it and pervert it into something which it was not originally meant to be. The way people practice Christianity is really only a perverted form of the religion. It is the human element which taints it and well makes it into something grotesque. 9:05 AM - 11/13/2008 - comments {0} - post commentA Dying RoseA Dying Rose
You watch the rose die
slowly each day
with no reason why
beauty must always
ebb and fade
Yet there is something
beautiful in the decay
regal as a dishonored Queen
it begins to pallor a little more
without complaint or loosing
dignity
When at last
no longer can it stand
there remains frozen
as the Briar Rose
a mask of the splendor
it once possessed
In this last defiance
there beats something
of a true Romance.
10:25 PM - 11/12/2008 - comments {0} - post commentStealing My ReligionI just heard this story on the radio. Apparently there is this allegedly "new" religion in Utah, they have been around for like 30 years which for a religion is really quite infantile. And well there is this park which has this monument of the 10 commandments and this so-called new religion wants to have a monument what is known as the 7 Principles, which is the thing they believe in, in the park as well, but the city doesn't want it because they say, that is not really a part of our history and tradition sense it is knew, and there is this whole battle in the supreme court about it.
But that aside, when they were reading these 7 Principles on the radio. It was basically word for word, a total rip off of Hermetics and The Golden Dawn, so basically they are not a new religion at all, they just took an old religion and put a new name on it and try and act like they are the founders of it. And well sense there are probably not a whole lot of people out there that are familiar with Hermetics and the Golden Dawn, who is going to call them on it. They probably figured they could get away with it, if they took some archaic religion that really is not out in the open, and claimed they were a new religion, no one is going to be like. Wait a second why does this sound familiar to me? Oh yeah, because it comes out of a belief system that has been around for 100's of years. At least no one but geeks like me who have studied the occult sense I have been in high school. 9:45 AM - 11/12/2008 - comments {1} - post comment100 Greatest Book ~ UpdateI came acros this list of what are considered to be the 100 greatest books of the 20th century, I decided that I would reach each of these books, here is the list of books I have read. The numbders in front of the title is the order they appear on the list. The * are a sort of 5 star rating system for how well I liked the book. I will also list if any the books I am in the progress of reading. TBA = To Be Announced
2.The Great Gastby * * * *
10. The Grapes of Wrath * * *
41. Lord of the Flies * * * *
45. The Sun Alos Rises * * * *
48. The Rainbow * * * *
64. The Catcher in the Rye * * * * *
78. Kim * * *
88.The Call of the Wild * * * * *
93. The Maugs * * * * *
21. Henderson the Rain King * * * *
69. The House of Mirth* * * * *
13. 1984 * * *
20. Native Son * * *
9. Sons and Lovers * * * *
31. Animal Farm * * *
3. A Portrait of the Artist As A Yong Man * *
58. The Age of Innocence * * *
15. To The Lighthouse * * *
25. A Passage To India * * * *
65. A Clockwork Orange * * * *
34. A Handful of Dust * * * *
84. The Death of the Heart * * * *
7. Catch-22 * * * *
27. The Ambassadors * * * *
24. Winseburg, Ohio * * * *
Books in Progress:
I Claudius 8:34 AM - 11/12/2008 - comments {0} - post commentReading List ~ UpdateHere is a list of books I am currently reading. I will keep it updated as I finnish books and start new books.
Cats Eye
Gatherer of Clouds
The Devil In Music
The Tommyknockers
The Stone of Tears
People of the Earth
Caravan To Xanadu
The Fire of Heaven
I Claudius
Foucault's Pendulum
The Jungle 8:33 AM - 11/12/2008 - comments {0} - post commentAltar of LoveAltar of Love
Sweetness,
upon thy lips; forbidden the poisoned kiss Tantalizing,
the sweep
of thy veil
stolen breath
Mystery,
lurking behind
thy dark kohl
eyes, while
hunger lays
inside
Lingering,
perfume;
as a ghost
passing through
the room
Captivated,
by your essence
twisting like a fire
within my soul
Oh Priestess!
upon thy knees before thee divine beauty, that I may be saved. 4:46 PM - 11/10/2008 - comments {1} - post commentBivouacBivouac: 1. an encampment under little or no shelter ususally for a short time. 2. camping out for a night; a temporary shelter or settlment.11:46 AM - 11/9/2008 - comments {0} - post commentStop the insanityAs much as I ravenlously hate Bush, I am sure most of you have heard the story about his dog biting the reporter, becasue everyone has been playing it. And it is just ridiculous, becasue now they are saying how the guy who got bit now has to get rabbie shots. First of all, personal feelings aside, does anyone legetimately beleive that the preisidents dog. The dog that has been living in the whitehouse acutally could possibly have rabbies? Or have been exposed to rabbies? And secound of all, you usually only have to get a rabbies shot if if cannot be varrified that the dog that bit you had had its current up to date vaccinations. Reguardless of how I feel about Bush, I find it hard to beleive that his dog hasn't had all of its proper shots. There is just no reason why he would acutally need to get rabbies shots for this. Unless they do things differnetly in different states.8:45 AM - 11/7/2008 - comments {2} - post commentQuote of the WeekI loved this, and think it does speak of a lot of truth
The cheif mourner does not always attend the funeral--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Runners up:
Never mistake knowlege for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make life ~ Sandra Carey
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation ~ Charlotte Bronte
8:40 AM - 11/7/2008 - comments {0} - post commentYou so dumbOk I just thought this was a hysterical Sara Palin joke on the Daily Show
Sara Palin is so dumb, she thinks billboards are postcards from giants.
Something about that just really cracked me up. 11:07 PM - 11/6/2008 - comments {0} - post commentThe Cypress TreesThe Cypress Trees
Death is spoken
in whispers
beneath the cypress
trees
Symbols of age old
wisdom once worn
on the crown of kings
A philosopher's reflection
and a bards woeful tale
lingered aroma
of forbidden affairs
Here the old sages
stood, watching
the ages pass
Purveyors of myth
known by the Greeks
and ancient Druids
Shade for slaves
and servants
when dawn has fallen
into dusk
the cypress trees
trade secrets
with the moon.
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