I think Latin is like the coolest thing ever...language in general, but Latin just is the shizzle...I want to teach Latin, and my advisor just told me how I can! Yay! And then Docta Resinski assigned me the Requiem to translate! ( Di-es freakin' IRAE) Double yay! And we have an exam over the subjunctive tomorrow! I love the subjunctive! Super-duper-mega yay! (Gets over her Selphie moment)
Anyway, I just had to express my jubilation over having found something to do with my life....
"Well of course I understand. You live forever because your pure, sinless service is utterly and indomitably unballasted by any weight or dross of mere human weakness. Ah, the advantages of clean living."
TC to Bannor, LFB
I spent this afternoon translating "Vexilla regis" and "Pange lingua", which brought forth some surprises (John Mason Neale left out several stanzas of each when he translated the versions my church sings in English...)
I minored in classics, sort of.
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased.
--Spider Robinson
"Well of course I understand. You live forever because your pure, sinless service is utterly and indomitably unballasted by any weight or dross of mere human weakness. Ah, the advantages of clean living."
TC to Bannor, LFB
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. That's fair enough I suppose, as long as our leaders are as happy to send their own kids to war as they are everyone else's!
The only difference between light and dark is the ability to tell the difference.
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
"Well of course I understand. You live forever because your pure, sinless service is utterly and indomitably unballasted by any weight or dross of mere human weakness. Ah, the advantages of clean living."
TC to Bannor, LFB
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
What ever happened to fightingmyinstincts? Hasn't been around in a long time.
"The Cheat is GROUNDED! We had that lightswitch installed for you so you could turn the lights on and off, not so you could throw lightswitch raves!"
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- I'm always all right.
- Is all right special Time Lord code for really not all right at all?
- You're all irresponsible fools!
- The Doctor: But we're very experienced irresponsible fools.
How about a song? I once had a male friend who would apologize to me by playing his guitar and singing (usually sappy or funny songs) until I couldn't be angry or sad anymore.
Wyldewode wrote:How about a song? I once had a male friend who would apologize to me by playing his guitar and singing (usually sappy or funny songs) until I couldn't be angry or sad anymore.
That would require me to be able to actually sing and play guitar to you, which would require me to be in physical proximity to you.
Which would be creepy, 'cause girls have cooties
I think I have a very badly done track of me playing a very poor copy of a david bowie song. I don't have proper recording equipment, so it sounds like shit, and I had to record the voice and guitar seperately.
Would that do?
Or would you like me to open up my Emo Leper song and poetry book and post something?
Ah. . . you decide. Though I do agree about the physical proximity thing. The effect of cootie-transfer is only negated if such a thing happens in the midst of a Elohimfest.
Wyldewode wrote:Ah. . . you decide. Though I do agree about the physical proximity thing. The effect of cootie-transfer is only negated if such a thing happens in the midst of a Elohimfest.
That would be really creepy except for the costume I intend to show up in.