It’s an odd fact that both firking around in bushes and
having the wind change drastically in direction give me sore throats. Aren’t
these bodies you humans inhabit weird things?
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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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4 comments:
Firk is a new word for me. I rarely learn new words outside of grad school these days. The last new word I learned in grad school was syzygy. Now my ambition is to use both of them in a sentence.
I suspected that 'firking' would prove to be a British colloquialism. It has a similar meaning to 'messing about' but with the sense of doing something with the hands, as in 'firking about in my old toy box.' 'Faffing' is a close cousin, but carries the sense of being aimless or impractical, as in 'Why are you faffing about with your old toy box when you could be doing something useful?'
Dop enlighten me as to syzygy.
Syzygy is a confluence of things, like an alignment of solar bodies, or alternately a pairing of concepts (sometimes opposites). I forget the precise context in which I learned it.
I think my problem would be remembering the spelling. And I'm guessing at the pronunciation.
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