not particularly sad
Dec. 3rd, 2003 01:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incandescensHave been unreasonably tired today. Most annoying. This had better not be flu or anything along those lines. On positive side, teeth adequate for next six months, which brightened up the end of my day considerably.
Also received latest box of French manga. So much for any progress on Romance of the Three Kingdoms for a little while.
Also ran first scene in short alternative campaign. I fear that some of my players recognised some of the influences on my background design -- in fact, the screams and whimpers strongly suggested that this was the case. In consequence, at least one of them has now started investigating GetBackers for source material. I cannot bring myself to be particularly sad about this.
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The Gates of Damascus
[...]
This is the song of the South Gate Holder,
A silver man, but his song is older.
I am the Gate that fears no fall: the Mihrab of Damascus wall,
The bridge of booming Sinai: the Arch of Allah all in all.
O spiritual pilgrim rise: the night has grown her single horn:
The voices of the souls unborn are half adream with Paradise.
To Mecca thou hast turned in prayer with aching heart and eyes that burn:
Ah Hajji, whither wilt thou turn when thou art there, when thou art there?
God be thy guide from camp to camp: God be thy shade from well to well;
God grant beneath the desert stars thou hear the Prophet's camel bell.
And God shall make thy body pure, and give thee knowlede to endure
This ghost-life's piercing phantom-pain, and bring thee out to Life again.
And God shall make thy soul a Glass where eighteen thousand aeons pass.
And thou shalt see the gleaming Worlds as men see dew upon the grass.
And sons of Islam, it may be that thou shalt learn at journey's end
Who walks thy garden eve on eve, and bows his head, and calls thee Friend.
-- James Elroy Flecker
Also received latest box of French manga. So much for any progress on Romance of the Three Kingdoms for a little while.
Also ran first scene in short alternative campaign. I fear that some of my players recognised some of the influences on my background design -- in fact, the screams and whimpers strongly suggested that this was the case. In consequence, at least one of them has now started investigating GetBackers for source material. I cannot bring myself to be particularly sad about this.
---
The Gates of Damascus
[...]
This is the song of the South Gate Holder,
A silver man, but his song is older.
I am the Gate that fears no fall: the Mihrab of Damascus wall,
The bridge of booming Sinai: the Arch of Allah all in all.
O spiritual pilgrim rise: the night has grown her single horn:
The voices of the souls unborn are half adream with Paradise.
To Mecca thou hast turned in prayer with aching heart and eyes that burn:
Ah Hajji, whither wilt thou turn when thou art there, when thou art there?
God be thy guide from camp to camp: God be thy shade from well to well;
God grant beneath the desert stars thou hear the Prophet's camel bell.
And God shall make thy body pure, and give thee knowlede to endure
This ghost-life's piercing phantom-pain, and bring thee out to Life again.
And God shall make thy soul a Glass where eighteen thousand aeons pass.
And thou shalt see the gleaming Worlds as men see dew upon the grass.
And sons of Islam, it may be that thou shalt learn at journey's end
Who walks thy garden eve on eve, and bows his head, and calls thee Friend.
-- James Elroy Flecker
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Date: 2003-12-02 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-02 08:14 pm (UTC)*evil grin*
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Date: 2003-12-02 09:27 pm (UTC)http://www.musicstack.com/item.cgiitem=5281769&find=marillion
And klubmp3 allows the full album to be downloaded for 72 cents (registration required):
http://club.mp3search.ru/album.html?ref=2543&lang=en&id=5949
Most worthwhile, esp. the first three tracks which are really one long piece. *sheepish* Okay, done evangelizing now. Though I might post these links in my journal...hm...
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Date: 2003-12-03 01:11 am (UTC)