be near me
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incandescensI can hear the rain falling outside. What a lovely sound it is. Fingers crossed for a cooler day tomorrow.
Hm. A thread on rpg.net suggests that Blizzard will at some point be producing Diablo 3. I commend their intelligence in finally producing a sequel to a game that sold so well, hope they'll keep it in the same isometrics as before (rather than going 3d), and hope it won't be too many years before it comes out.
amazon.co.uk informs me that my sister's birthday present has been dispatched. Good. I hope it gets there on time. (mutter mutter had she replied faster to my query about what she wanted there would have been no problem about this, mutter mutter)
My mother took the occasion of my father being away to clear out the freezer -- something about moderately unidentifiable lumpish unlabelled items that were probably several years old, and even if deepfreezing meant they were probably safe, she was not convinced. I see her point. (The definition of a moderately unidentifiable item would be, "Well, I think it's meat, but I'm not sure what sort of meat...")
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Be Near Me
You who demolish me, you whom I love,
be near me. Remain near me when evening,
drunk on the blood of the skies,
becomes night, in its one hand
a perfumed balm, in the other
a sword sheathed in the diamond of stars.
Be near me when night laments or sings,
or when it begins to dance,
its steel-blue anklets ringing with grief.
Be here when longings, long submerged
in the heart's waters, resurface
and when everyone begins to look:
Where is the assassin? In whose sleeve
is hidden the redeeming knife?
And when wine, as it is poured, is the sobbing
of children whom nothing will console -
when nothing holds,
when nothing is:
at that dark hour when night mourns,
be near me, my destroyer, my lover,
be near me.
-- Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Hm. A thread on rpg.net suggests that Blizzard will at some point be producing Diablo 3. I commend their intelligence in finally producing a sequel to a game that sold so well, hope they'll keep it in the same isometrics as before (rather than going 3d), and hope it won't be too many years before it comes out.
amazon.co.uk informs me that my sister's birthday present has been dispatched. Good. I hope it gets there on time. (mutter mutter had she replied faster to my query about what she wanted there would have been no problem about this, mutter mutter)
My mother took the occasion of my father being away to clear out the freezer -- something about moderately unidentifiable lumpish unlabelled items that were probably several years old, and even if deepfreezing meant they were probably safe, she was not convinced. I see her point. (The definition of a moderately unidentifiable item would be, "Well, I think it's meat, but I'm not sure what sort of meat...")
---
Be Near Me
You who demolish me, you whom I love,
be near me. Remain near me when evening,
drunk on the blood of the skies,
becomes night, in its one hand
a perfumed balm, in the other
a sword sheathed in the diamond of stars.
Be near me when night laments or sings,
or when it begins to dance,
its steel-blue anklets ringing with grief.
Be here when longings, long submerged
in the heart's waters, resurface
and when everyone begins to look:
Where is the assassin? In whose sleeve
is hidden the redeeming knife?
And when wine, as it is poured, is the sobbing
of children whom nothing will console -
when nothing holds,
when nothing is:
at that dark hour when night mourns,
be near me, my destroyer, my lover,
be near me.
-- Faiz Ahmed Faiz
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Date: 2004-08-09 01:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-09 04:20 pm (UTC)Right now I'm more anxious for Blizzard to produce Stracraft 2, not Ghost *yawn*, but an actually RTS game.