Kevin's Watch

A Gunslinger wrote:Thanks Esmer! I think... !

it just fits you somehow....

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RE-DUB

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What a delightful thread. . how could I have missed this before?

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kevinswatch wrote:Well, my character is an inept super-villain who dresses up as a butterfly. So it could be worse. Heh.-jay

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uuuhhhh........jaaaaay?

Um...right.-jay

doh! was that your dorm cam?

Don't make me ban you like I banned Darth.-jay

Esmer wrote:

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Wow. . . you're amazing! How do you do that? Lyr's middle name is Joie. . . see avatar from other site below.

well, I make no claims........and I'm glad you like it! let's watch...

Lyr wrote:Hell is not forgetting,
But remembering.

Esmer (very moved) thought:

...sounds like a sailors wife...

then.....Esmer found this:

Lewis Carroll wrote:THE SAILOR'S WIFE

SEE! There are tears upon her face-

Tears newly shed, and scarcely dried:

Close, in an agonized embrace,

She clasps the infant at her side. -

Peace dwells in those soft-lidded eyes,

Those parted lips that faintly smile-

Peace, the foretaste of Paradise,

In heart too young for care or guile. -

No peace that mother's features wear;

But quivering lip, and knotted brow,

And broken mutterings, all declare

The fearful dream that haunts her now, -

The storm-wind, rushing through the sky,

Wails from the depths of cloudy space;

Shrill, piercing as the seaman's cry

When death and he are face to face. -

Familiar tones are in the gale:

They ring upon her startled ear:

And quick and low she pants the tale

That tells of agony and fear: -

"Still that phantom-ship is nigh-

With a vexed and life-like motion,

All beneath an angry sky,

Rocking on an angry ocean. -

"Round the straining mast and shrouds

Throng the spirits of the storm:

Darkly seen through driving clouds,

Bends each gaunt and ghastly form. -

"See! The good ship yields at last!

Dumbly yields, and fights no more;

Driving, in the frantic blast,

Headlong on the fatal shore. -

"Hark! I hear her battered side,

With a low and sullen shock,

Dashed, amid the foaming tide,

Full upon a sunken rock. -

"His face shines out against the sky,

Like a ghost, so cold and white;

With a dead despairing eye

Gazing through the gathered night. -

"Is he watching, through the dark,

Where a mocking ghostly hand

Points a faint and feeble spark

Glimmering from the distant land? -

"Sees he, in this hour of dread,

Hearth and home and wife and child?

Loved ones who, in summers fled,

Clung to him and wept and smiled? -

"Reeling sinks the fated bark

To her tomb beneath the wave:

Must he perish in the dark-

Not a hand stretched out to save? -

"See the spirits, how they crowd!

Watching death with eyes that burn!

Waves rush in-" she shrieks aloud,

Ere her waking sense return. -

The storm is gone: the skies are clear:

Hush'd is that bitter cry of pain:

The only sound, that meets her ear,

The heaving of the sullen main. -

Though heaviness endure the night,

Yet joy shall come with break of day:

She shudders with a strange delight-

The fearful dream is pass'd away. -

She wakes: the gray dawn streaks the dark:

With early song the copses ring:

Far off she hears the watch-dog bark

A joyful bark of welcoming! -

Feb. 23, 1857. - -

but, Lyr also first wrote:I'll just jump in here...

Esmer laughed and thought:

jump in for joy?

heh.....that one was fun for me, Lyr......you could say it was a joy for me too....







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That was absolutely fascinating. Thank you.


~Lyr

Now I'm really wondering why I didn't see "dawn" in that poem........

Esmer wrote:Now I'm really wondering why I didn't see "dawn" in that poem........

It's because you sensed that I am "joy." Great work. . .



~Lyr Joie

Now I want to know how I was dubbed. I mean, I get the James part, and I get the Reave the Just reference... but I don't get how they connect.

TELL ME!

The Connection: James was a brother of Jesus, who was Just. Do I win?!

drew wrote:

Esmer wrote: Earl is the coolest dude on the planet...if thou wishes I will change it, the second choice was Neil Young, the other coolest dude on the planet.....Red Green is Red Green, and Red Green ROCKS, but thou art not Red Green.....speak thy wish......

Pardon my ignorace sir Knight, for I didst not knowist how high a favour thou had heldst for the aforementioned Earl. Thou Sir Neil and I share a common acentery, Nay I am not politacal enough to be debbed with such a handle.
I will use Earl, until thou deems fit to chose me a new title.

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James the Just, forgive me, but I really forgot how I arrived at your name.....I saved the old reminder "trails" on a laptop that is no longer with us.....it was definitely based on something you said tho, of that we can be sure...... perhaps it will come back to me.......


Kil Tyme is techically correct about the connection, but still loses.....and patiently waits.........










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  Sir Phobos
  
  Knight of Mars
  
  Beater of Ass

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Hmm...

Esmer, any chance you'll dub any of the dieties on the Pantheon thread?

Ahh cool; I get 3 dubs? I had to look up that name and I see it's from a show I've never seen, so I have to wonder the connection. Has to be Tank related. Nonetheless, it sounds like the best of dubs, so thanks Esmer!

Just found this.

Esmer -- do you remember how you came up with Sophia for me? Thanky!