tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13202195.post8343898554492488664..comments2023-10-02T13:59:50.396+02:00Comments on Simulacra: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13202195.post-40416089488263789572008-03-17T19:55:00.000+01:002008-03-17T19:55:00.000+01:00Thanks, kindred spirits.I'm struggling to avoid Li...Thanks, kindred spirits.<BR/>I'm struggling to avoid Lily's fate.<BR/><BR/>I'll be gone for a week or so, on hiatus from the world.janjanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17223337024910392813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13202195.post-25197537736169172522008-03-17T18:35:00.000+01:002008-03-17T18:35:00.000+01:00Νὺξ δ'ἔτεκε στυγερόν τε Μοῖραν καὶ Κῆρα μέλαινονκα...Νὺξ δ'ἔτεκε στυγερόν τε Μοῖραν καὶ Κῆρα μέλαινον<BR/>καὶ Θάνατον, τέκε δ'Ὕπνον, ἔτικε δὲ φῦλον Ὀνείρων.<BR/><BR/>And Night bore hateful Doom and black Fate,<BR/>and Death, and she bore Sleep, and she bore the tribe of Dreams.<BR/><BR/>- Hesiod, <I>Theogony</I>Mamadouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02879483543842205732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13202195.post-74345360832527640632008-03-17T05:14:00.000+01:002008-03-17T05:14:00.000+01:00For his art did expressA quintessence even from no...<I>For his art did express<BR/>A quintessence even from nothingness,<BR/>From dull privations, and lean emptiness,<BR/>He ruined me, and I am re-begot<BR/>Of absence, darkness, death - things which are not.</I><BR/><BR/>- from John Donne, "A Nocturne Upon St. Lucy's Day"<BR/><BR/>I'm not going to post the whole poem because it's pretty substantial, but it's easy to find online on the off chance that you don't have any Donne around. It's very dismal in some ways but I've found it strangely comforting in the bad times - to know that the Nothing inside me can still be made into something good. It feels like a permanent state, but that's its deceptiveness only. <BR/><BR/>*Hugs* I'm hoping like crazy that you feel better soon. And don't model yourself too much on Lily Bart :). She's a fascinating character but much less well equipped to deal with her world than you are with yours.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16874119505499671482noreply@blogger.com