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A Few Words From The Wise
Speak to him, for there is none born wise.
-The Maxims of Ptahotep
In mourning or rejoicing, be not far from me.
- an Ancient Egyptian Love Song
But your embraces
alone give life to my heart
may Amun give me what I have found
for all eternity.
-Love Songs of the New Kingdom, Song #2
To Know the Dark
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is travelled by dark feet and dark wings.
-Wendell Berry
Up in the morning's no for me,
Up in the morning early;
When a' the hills are covered wi' snaw,
I'm sure it's winter fairly.
-Robert Burns
Visit to the Hermit Ts'ui
Moss covered paths between scarlet peonies,
Pale jade mountains fill your rustic windows.
I envy you, drunk with flowers,
Butterflies swirling in your dreams.
-Ch'ien Ch'i
Mistress of high achievement, O lady Truth,
do not let my understanding stumble
across some jagged falsehood.
-Pindar
Every Gaudy colour
Is a bit of truth.
-Nathalia Crane
I counted two-and-twenty stenches,
All well defined, and several stinks.
-Samuel Coleridge
-The Maxims of Ptahotep
In mourning or rejoicing, be not far from me.
- an Ancient Egyptian Love Song
But your embraces
alone give life to my heart
may Amun give me what I have found
for all eternity.
-Love Songs of the New Kingdom, Song #2
To Know the Dark
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is travelled by dark feet and dark wings.
-Wendell Berry
Up in the morning's no for me,
Up in the morning early;
When a' the hills are covered wi' snaw,
I'm sure it's winter fairly.
-Robert Burns
Visit to the Hermit Ts'ui
Moss covered paths between scarlet peonies,
Pale jade mountains fill your rustic windows.
I envy you, drunk with flowers,
Butterflies swirling in your dreams.
-Ch'ien Ch'i
Mistress of high achievement, O lady Truth,
do not let my understanding stumble
across some jagged falsehood.
-Pindar
Every Gaudy colour
Is a bit of truth.
-Nathalia Crane
I counted two-and-twenty stenches,
All well defined, and several stinks.
-Samuel Coleridge
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Date: 2013-01-31 12:36 am (UTC)Then again, we find out later on, when Jacob decides (with much prodding and poking by Selmak) to heal the breach with Mark, that Sam has been cut out of his life to such an extent that she has not met either kid at that point:
JACOB
When was the last time you saw him?
CARTER
I haven't seen him since either of his kids were born. I guess he paints me with the same brush as he does you.
Again, I took the either to imply that they were separate births.
"Fandom. The natural home of obsessives," I mutter sheepishly.
I assumed that it was Sam herself who decided that her father wanted her to be a boy. For all I know, Jacob wanted her to be Samantha, but bowed to calling her Sam or Sammie at her request. She tells Aiden Corso that she's "Sam" and that her father wanted a boy, but we have no way of knowing whether that's actually an onus she put on herself. I know a number of women who have said that about their fathers, but if you ask them if they've actually discussed this with their fathers, they say "Oh, no. You could just tell." They don't want to have that discussion, because then they might have to know, once and for all, that they were a disappointing alternative, instead of merely suspecting it. The Carter family does not strike me as the type to discuss uncomfortable subjects.
Ooops! I just might be showing my obsessive side again.