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Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Not where I want to be ...
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yes, that's the one I ended up getting, after comparing several.
I know that I just love Milton's Paradise Lost, and the thought of what must be lost in translation makes me sad. And it has to be the same with any translation 
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun!  Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?*"How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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03-14-2006, 12:43 AM
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the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: San Francisco, CA <3
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03-14-2006, 02:30 AM
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Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Not where I want to be ...
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(hey, SheBoP - check out the "favorite quotes" thread here - I'd love to hear some of yours!)
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?*"How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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03-14-2006, 06:07 PM
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Lady of Letters
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England
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Edit: nevermind.
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. Last edited by sun-star : 03-14-2006 at 06:09 PM. |
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03-14-2006, 10:01 PM
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Domesticated Swing Babe
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Reality
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I'll come visit you after I work on my tan on level 6....I'm sure there will be some interesting activities going on on level 2!  Guess I'll get some sunscreen and an asbestos thong. 
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03-15-2006, 04:35 PM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Darkness
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Asbestos might be a tad itchy...
Anyway, waiting till you are dead to have fun sounds like poor planning to me... Carpe Diem and then ____ the living crap out of it...
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I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Queer haow a cravin' gits a holt on ye -- As ye love the Almighty, young man, don't tell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun ta make me hungry fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy -- here, set still, what's ailin' ye? ... Last edited by Blackheart : 03-17-2006 at 03:43 PM. |
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03-15-2006, 08:00 PM
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Domesticated Swing Babe
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Reality
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Itchy? Scratchy!
Who says I'm not having fun now!  Actually, I'm having fun imagining visiting you on level 2....of course, after I'm dead I will be quite busy...rotting....
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03-16-2006, 01:10 AM
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the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: San Francisco, CA <3
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It's called feedin' the worms, Lizra, feedin' the worms.
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03-16-2006, 01:27 AM
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of the House of Fëanor
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Los Angeles
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Pushin' up daisies? Answerin' the last call? Crossing the Great Divide? Feeding the fishes? Permanently checked into the Hotel California, next to the crow-bait farm, after passing through Termination Station? Hooo - ah!!
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03-16-2006, 06:12 AM
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of the House of Bëor
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Eastwards.
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Pushin' up daisies! lol.
 Sorry, but.. what a mental image. Besides, in Hungarian we have a flowery expression for death too: smelling the violets from beneath...Oh! and I'm third level.
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03-16-2006, 02:14 PM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Darkness
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Actually I have direct evidence of an afterlife, but since I am a selfish bastard, I refuse to share it with anyone.
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I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Queer haow a cravin' gits a holt on ye -- As ye love the Almighty, young man, don't tell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun ta make me hungry fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy -- here, set still, what's ailin' ye? ... |
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03-16-2006, 02:22 PM
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the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: San Francisco, CA <3
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If it's you that I'm gonna see at the end of the light in the tunnel, then I see I'm going to have to have a contingency plan to avoid death!
*tries vainly not to think of BH replete with rusty halo and harp
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03-16-2006, 02:47 PM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Darkness
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I meant.. "It"... And I can't really play the harp... which makes it the more scary I suppose...
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I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Queer haow a cravin' gits a holt on ye -- As ye love the Almighty, young man, don't tell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun ta make me hungry fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy -- here, set still, what's ailin' ye? ... |
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03-16-2006, 11:21 PM
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Domesticated Swing Babe
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Reality
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03-17-2006, 03:37 PM
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Elf Lord
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I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Queer haow a cravin' gits a holt on ye -- As ye love the Almighty, young man, don't tell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun ta make me hungry fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy -- here, set still, what's ailin' ye? ... |
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03-18-2006, 01:24 PM
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Andúril the White
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Your thoughts
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Lvl6.
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03-20-2006, 01:24 PM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol
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Lotesses, I see sun-star has given you the data on Dante and the The Commedia as he named it! It was given the adjective Divine by a publisher who (rightly !!!) judged it to be a magnificent poem. I've still got the bum computer at home and the filter at work! Dorothy L. Sayers has the best annotations by far to enable understanding. But for the variations in nuance try John Ciardi's and Pinske's translations, for my money. Pinske has only out the Inferno last I checked.
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Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941 |
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03-22-2006, 04:22 PM
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Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
Join Date: Sep 2002
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I'm enjoying Sawyers' notes right now
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?*"How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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04-30-2006, 09:15 PM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol
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Guess what? . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . I got Purgatory, repenting believer. No caveats. No lies. No videotape. . . . . . . . . . . Your humble apologies are, no doubt, spilling readily from your repentant lips! . . . . . . . . . . Rather like your acknowledgement of my acute prophetic powers and self-knowledge. . . . I did rank rather low on the modesty and humility scores, I suppose!!!!!! 
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Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941 |
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04-30-2006, 10:15 PM
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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA
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I was fortunate enough to make it to Purgatory. Whew.
I hope God checks this when I kick the bucket... [divine]Hmm, let's see what my handy little Dante's Inferno Test says about this one...[/divine] Purgatory You have escaped damnation and made it to Purgatory, a place where the dew of repentance washes off the stain of sin and girds the spirit with humility. Through contrition, confession, and satisfaction by works of righteousness, you must make your way up the mountain. As the sins are cleansed from your soul, you will be illuminated by the Sun of Divine Grace, and you will join other souls, smiling and happy, upon the summit of this mountain. Before long you will know the joys of Paradise as you ascend to the ethereal realm of Heaven. Total score: Purgatory Repenting Believers Very High Level 1 - Limbo Virtuous Non-Believers Moderate Level 2 Lustful Low Level 3 Gluttonous High Level 4 Prodigal and Avaricious Moderate Level 5 Wrathful and Gloomy Low Level 6 - The City of Dis Heretics Very Low Level 7 Violent Low Level 8- the Malebolge Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers High Level 9 - Cocytus Treacherous Low Looks like I need to work on my Gluttony levels, and based on Level 8, I guess I have to stop working as a pimp. Hmm...I wonder if I was Fraudulent, Malicious or (who knows) Pandering?
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