the time must have gone somewhere
May. 3rd, 2012 01:32 amDid not do a great deal today. Well, all right, so I did my day job, finished a bracelet, picked up a package, and wrote a bit, so clearly stuff was done, but it still feels like one of those days when not much got done. But one is still definitely tired at the end of it.
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Three songs for the Lady Fan
Fireflies pass across jewelled windows
Voices have ceased in the golden palace
One stays up through the autumn night, gauze-curtained
And a solitary light gleams on.
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Autumn's weeds thrive in the palace yard
His Majesty pays no gracious visit now
How unbearable the imperial music
When the golden carriage drives on past that gate.
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Strange, the ladies' apartments are all shut -
They have left the court, no one to be met with
They have all gone to their spring garden
Sounds of laughter and talk among the flowers.
-- Wang Wei, translated by GW Robinson
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Three songs for the Lady Fan
Fireflies pass across jewelled windows
Voices have ceased in the golden palace
One stays up through the autumn night, gauze-curtained
And a solitary light gleams on.
*
Autumn's weeds thrive in the palace yard
His Majesty pays no gracious visit now
How unbearable the imperial music
When the golden carriage drives on past that gate.
*
Strange, the ladies' apartments are all shut -
They have left the court, no one to be met with
They have all gone to their spring garden
Sounds of laughter and talk among the flowers.
-- Wang Wei, translated by GW Robinson
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Date: 2012-05-03 02:21 am (UTC)Your list sounds better than mine, which includes getting kid, emptying and re-filling dishwasher, and doing laundry.
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