An internal history, in quotations.
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cahnAll right, one more list, and then back to the regularly scheduled ranting.
Here are ten Quotes That Are Important to Me. I was inspired to do this by a discussion with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nolly-- I suspect that some of these are easier to get (than the last batch) if you are familiar with the work in question, or guessable if you know me, though I consider some of these much more obscure than the last batch. (D took it and got only 3 for sure and guessed another 2.) In chronological order of my first exposure to them:
1. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye... You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
2. As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.
3. "And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content."
4. In speaking of this desire for our own faroff country, which we find in ourselves even now, I feel a certain shyness. I am almost committing an indecency. I am trying to rip open the inconsolable secret in each one of you - the secret which hurts so much that you take your revenge on it by calling it names like Nostalgia and Romanticism and Adolescence; the secret also which pierces with such sweetness that when, in very intimate conversation, the mention of it becomes imminent, we grow awkward and affect to laugh at ourselves; the secret we cannot hide and cannot tell, though we desire to do both.
5. (for extra credit, what is the poem based on)
Thou indeed art just, Lord, if I contend
With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just.
Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must
Disappointment all I endeavor end?
6. ...Though Camelot is built, though the king sit on the throne,
yet the wood in the wild west of the shapes and names
probes everywhere through the frontier of head and hand;
everywhere the light through the great leaves is blown
on your substantial flesh, and everywhere your glory frames.
7. And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
8. Tri lloneit prytwen yd aetham ni idi.
nam seith ny dyrreith o gaer sidi.
And because it's not fair otherwise, here's the proper translation:
Three fullnesses of Prydwen we went into it.
Except seven, none rose up from the Fortress of the Mound.
And to be perfectly fair, here's the "popular" translation (and the one I knew until my post-college-year):
Three shiploads of Prydwen we went to it;
except for seven, none returned from Caer Siddi.
9. "...libero, dritto e sano e' tuo arbitrio,
e fallo fora non fare a suo senno:
per ch'io te sovra te corono e mitrio."
("...Here your will is upright, free, and whole,
and you would be in error not to heed
whatever your own impulse prompts you to:
lord of yourself I crown and mitre you.")
10. "The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
Answers, with possibly way too much commentary, in a couple of days.
(edited to change dumb reference to wrong person, sorry...)
Here are ten Quotes That Are Important to Me. I was inspired to do this by a discussion with
nolly-- I suspect that some of these are easier to get (than the last batch) if you are familiar with the work in question, or guessable if you know me, though I consider some of these much more obscure than the last batch. (D took it and got only 3 for sure and guessed another 2.) In chronological order of my first exposure to them:1. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye... You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
2. As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.
3. "And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content."
4. In speaking of this desire for our own faroff country, which we find in ourselves even now, I feel a certain shyness. I am almost committing an indecency. I am trying to rip open the inconsolable secret in each one of you - the secret which hurts so much that you take your revenge on it by calling it names like Nostalgia and Romanticism and Adolescence; the secret also which pierces with such sweetness that when, in very intimate conversation, the mention of it becomes imminent, we grow awkward and affect to laugh at ourselves; the secret we cannot hide and cannot tell, though we desire to do both.
5. (for extra credit, what is the poem based on)
Thou indeed art just, Lord, if I contend
With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just.
Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must
Disappointment all I endeavor end?
6. ...Though Camelot is built, though the king sit on the throne,
yet the wood in the wild west of the shapes and names
probes everywhere through the frontier of head and hand;
everywhere the light through the great leaves is blown
on your substantial flesh, and everywhere your glory frames.
7. And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
8. Tri lloneit prytwen yd aetham ni idi.
nam seith ny dyrreith o gaer sidi.
And because it's not fair otherwise, here's the proper translation:
Three fullnesses of Prydwen we went into it.
Except seven, none rose up from the Fortress of the Mound.
And to be perfectly fair, here's the "popular" translation (and the one I knew until my post-college-year):
Three shiploads of Prydwen we went to it;
except for seven, none returned from Caer Siddi.
9. "...libero, dritto e sano e' tuo arbitrio,
e fallo fora non fare a suo senno:
per ch'io te sovra te corono e mitrio."
("...Here your will is upright, free, and whole,
and you would be in error not to heed
whatever your own impulse prompts you to:
lord of yourself I crown and mitre you.")
10. "The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
Answers, with possibly way too much commentary, in a couple of days.
(edited to change dumb reference to wrong person, sorry...)
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Date: 2007-09-26 05:55 pm (UTC)I thought you'd know more of these :) You're of course right about #1, #3 (I agree, they're all kind of the same book), #7, and #9; and you're right about #4, and close with #5. ...I was actually kind of surprised after making up the list how many had explicit or implicit religious connotations. But maybe I shouldn't've been.
So do you like Heroes? I just started watching them (2 eps into season 1), and parts were a bit slow, but the end of the second ep made up for it.
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Date: 2007-09-26 06:49 pm (UTC)I love Heroes like I've never loved a TV show before, although it's not flawless. Also, the police translator at the end of the second episode? That's my friend Tadao. :) The whole reason I started watching was because of that, and by the end of that episode, I was hooked.
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Date: 2007-09-27 06:46 pm (UTC)Your reaction to Heroes is, I think, about the same as my reaction to Firefly; it has profound flaws, and I can see why other people might not like it, but I love it to little bits and pieces... we'll see what i think of Heroes as I watch more of it...