So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss,
Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away,
Turn thou ghost that way, and let me turn this,
And let our selves benight our happiest day,
We ask none leave to love; nor will we owe
Any, so cheap a death, as saying, Go;
Go; and if that word have not quite kil'd thee,
Ease me with death, by bidding me go too.
Oh, if it have, let my word work on me,
And a just office on a murderer do.
Except it be too late, to kill me so,
Being double dead, going, and bidding, go.
John Donne - "The Expiration"
"This turn hath made amends; thou hast fulfill'd
Thy words, Creator bounteous and benigne,
Giver of all things faire, but fairest this
Of all thy gifts, nor enviest. I now see
Bone of my Bone, Flesh of my Flesh, my Self
Before me; Woman is her Name, of Man
Extracted, for this cause he shall forgoe
Father and Mother, and to his Wife adhere;
And they shall be one Flesh, one Heart, one Soule."
John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 7
My influences are .. bah. go look at my myspace profile. I can't keep both profiles up to date.
nothing here is in any order.
Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away,
Turn thou ghost that way, and let me turn this,
And let our selves benight our happiest day,
We ask none leave to love; nor will we owe
Any, so cheap a death, as saying, Go;
Go; and if that word have not quite kil'd thee,
Ease me with death, by bidding me go too.
Oh, if it have, let my word work on me,
And a just office on a murderer do.
Except it be too late, to kill me so,
Being double dead, going, and bidding, go.
John Donne - "The Expiration"
"This turn hath made amends; thou hast fulfill'd
Thy words, Creator bounteous and benigne,
Giver of all things faire, but fairest this
Of all thy gifts, nor enviest. I now see
Bone of my Bone, Flesh of my Flesh, my Self
Before me; Woman is her Name, of Man
Extracted, for this cause he shall forgoe
Father and Mother, and to his Wife adhere;
And they shall be one Flesh, one Heart, one Soule."
John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 7
My influences are .. bah. go look at my myspace profile. I can't keep both profiles up to date.
nothing here is in any order.
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Mountain of Light on June 28, 2006PS. Love Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Smiths/Morissey, Ministry, Joy Division, and Pitch Black, the only film that I can think of that shows Muslims in outer space. But Event Horizon scared me senseless. Can't even look at that film again.
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Mountain of Light on June 28, 2006All that you've said is true, and if I spoke it, would get me sent to the American gulag our unwilling Cuban neighbors are hosting. After having studied political science / political history into post graduate studies, I personally find the nation-state, not religion, to be one of the most destructive and genocidal institutions in history. If people only knew the level of bloodshed that existed and the people that were crushed to get Europe with the nice "neat" borders it has today...
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TheDarknessVisible on June 27, 2006Looking at history it is depressing to note that Hitler was not defeated by the forces of good. He was merely defeated by forces of a different sort of evil. Hitler would have applauded as Winston Churchill delivered his speech that "a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."
Saddam Hussein was certainly aware that it was Britain which first used chemical weapons against the Kurds. The UK has no moral right whatsoever stepping foot inside Iraq when their own prime minister in living memory executed the EXACT same crimes against the exact same victims that Saddam Hussein is now being prosecuted for.
The evil dictators in the world certainly are evil dictators... but the only thing which seems to seperate them from our brave leaders is their degree of success rather than any difference in their moral character.
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Mountain of Light on June 26, 2006I like your page...very cool influences, and thanks for those elucidating quotes.
