Days of wine and roses, eh? I'm more of a nectar and cherries man myself.
You don't understand that because you're not supposed to.
Present mood (why isn't there a 'present mood' facility on Blogger?)
48% confusion
48% tension
4% euphoria.
Life is a very strange bedfellow at the moment. Talking of which, I have to be up early.
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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.
BOOKS
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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4 comments:
sounds exciting ;) i'd go for the latter too- roses are soooo generic and overrated. I guess they do have an intoxicating smell...kinda...
I saw forty two up yesterday. Neil. He's my favourite. It got me wondering are ALL eccentrics so adorably cute when they are little? LOL
Ah, but ZZ, there's a deeper meaning behind this. It's all to do with privilige and sanctity.
What is 'forty two up?' Who is Neil? The pictures of me when I was little look more mischievous than adorable. Maybe I'm just not an eccentric.
Damn yo strung me along for so long there that we might hail from nearby galaxies...LOL
42Up is part of that great BBC? series 7 up- give me a child that is 7 and I will give you the man- they recorded kids from teh age of 7 in 1964 every 7 years they document their lives...I can't believe you don't know about it? Maybe it's one of those things that are so much more famous overseas...
congrats on yoru published story...misanthrope press indeed...lol i'm stil trying to finish reading steppenwolf...
I do vaguely remember that series, I just don't watch much TV. You're the second person who's mentioned Steppenwolf in a couple of weeks. I wonder whether reading it would do me any good.
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