‘Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved; love is to me that you are the knife which I turn within myself.’
Well said, my friend. We understand one another.
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...until death do re-unite or the Priestess return to Avalon.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self .
This character appears in one of my short stories, and also in the novel. He's sadder than he looks, poor thing.
About Me
- JJ
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
- I've never had money because I've never been driven by money. I received little formal education beyond the age of sixteen, which isn't such a bad thing since you get a different angle on life that way. Learning what you want and need to learn often reveals things that the system's road keeps hidden.
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Anyone interested in viewing the availablity of my novel Odyssey or novella The Gift Horse can do so here.
To Be Retained...
...until death do re-unite or the Priestess return to Avalon.
Khalil Gibran on Children.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
OMAR KAYYAM ON REGRET.
The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
Herman Hess on Nobility
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self .
Free Fiction
I have another blog called A Handful of Stories on which I've posted some of my short fiction. Most of it has been published by a variety of independent small press publishers, so somebody other than me must have thought it worth reading.
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This character appears in one of my short stories, and also in the novel. He's sadder than he looks, poor thing.
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When everything that is illusion is removed, all that remains is consciousness.
3 comments:
I'm really happy that I mentioned this. What did you end up thinking of the last paragraph, then?
But is she for you the most beloved, Jeff?
Gotta (!) take a rain check on that one, Zoe. This sentence stuck in my head and I didn't get beyond it (it was turned 4 am.) A meeting of minds can be an interesting thing. Will let you know about the last paragraph later.
Dominique: Strange thing. I keep wanting to call you Gabrielle, for some reason. Why on earth would that be?! Anyway, big question. As far as the apparent realities of this world and this life are concerned, no. Can't be. Beyond the prospect of belief. I have an abiding love of the absurd, but not where that sort of thing is concerned.
And I intended to take this post down. Now I can't! Am I being just a bit too frank here?!!!
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