‘I think I’ve discovered the secret of life. You hang around until you get used to it.’
I’m hanging around.
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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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5 comments:
I'm far from understanding the secret then. I just can't get used to the ups and downs, especially the downs...
Could this be partly a Swedish thing, Choncron? Summer Swede/Winter Swede?
I get lots of ups and downs, too. I seem to have developed the means to stand outside both and observe them. It helps a lot. Maybe that's what comes of hanging around.
It's nice to see you here, and I'm not being obsequious when I say that I appreciate the fact that you comment in English.
Oh no... that kind of ups and downs is not the problem. We have had much illness and many deaths in the family the last 10 years, I thought I'd somehow get used to it but it's as if it's new every time.
You write in English so it's natural to comment in English, besides, my English will never get better if I don't keep trying to write in it. =)
Sorry to hear that - hope it's a phase that will pass. I've occasionally been reminded of Shakespeare's line:
'When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.'
As far as the English is concerned, I just sometimes feel a bit guilty that other people learn English rather more readily than we learn their languages. I suppose it's just become the main international language, so we're lucky.
Shakespeare knew what he was talking about but there is another side to it too, the sorrow and chaos makes me enjoy the good things in life so much more. Even such a basic thing as getting up in the morning, making us a cup of tea and watching the snow storm outside through the kitchen window can fill me with joy. I still have all of that. =)
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