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Basic Info| Name: | Megan |
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BioI'm alive. I'm in love. What else is there?*
*Well, this blog, obviously. Where I write on sundry topics such as literature, theology, good sci-fi, sci-fi kitsch, cooking experiments, Benedictine life, knitting disasters and bad puns. Prepare yourself for a hearty dose of inanity detailing my daily life, served up with a side of snark.
"Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme
of things not found within recorded time.
It is not they that have forgot the Night,
or bid us flee to organized delight,
in lotus-isles of economic bliss
forswearing souls to gain a Circe-kiss
(and counterfeit at that, machine-produced,
bogus seduction of the twice-seduced)."
-- Mythopoeia, J. R. R. Tolkien
"The towers and trees were lifted hymns of praise,
The city was a prayer, the land a nun:
The noonday azure strumming all its rays
Sang that a famous battle had been won,
As signing his white Cross, the very Sun,
The Solar Christ and captain of my days
Zoomed to the zenith; and his will was done."
-- Mithraic Emblems, Roy Campbell
"Quick now, here, now, always—
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one."
-- Little Gidding (Four Quartets), T. S. Eliot
"But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future's sakes."
-- Two Tramps in Mud Time, Robert Frost
"Are these more orderly? I thank you for the Truth - I had no Monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself, and when I try to organize - my little Force explodes - and leaves me bare and charred - I think you called me 'Wayward.' Will you help me improve? I suppose the pride that stops the Breath, in the Core of Woods, is not of Ourself - You say I confess the little mistake, and omit the large - Because I can see Orthography - but the Ignorance is out of sight - is my Preceptor's charge - Of 'shunning Men and Women' - they talk of Hallowed things aloud - and embarrass my Dog - He and I don't object to them, if they'll exist their side. I think Carl[o] would please you - He is dumb, and brave - I think you would like the Chestnut Tree, I met in my walk. It hit my notice suddenly - and I thought the Skies were in Blossom - Then there's the noiseless noise in the Orchard - that I let persons hear -" -- Letter of Emily Dickinson to T. W. Higginson, August 1862
"I thought: 'I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.'" -- I Captured the Castle, Dodie Smith
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." -- Emily Dickinson
*Well, this blog, obviously. Where I write on sundry topics such as literature, theology, good sci-fi, sci-fi kitsch, cooking experiments, Benedictine life, knitting disasters and bad puns. Prepare yourself for a hearty dose of inanity detailing my daily life, served up with a side of snark.
"Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme
of things not found within recorded time.
It is not they that have forgot the Night,
or bid us flee to organized delight,
in lotus-isles of economic bliss
forswearing souls to gain a Circe-kiss
(and counterfeit at that, machine-produced,
bogus seduction of the twice-seduced)."
-- Mythopoeia, J. R. R. Tolkien
"The towers and trees were lifted hymns of praise,
The city was a prayer, the land a nun:
The noonday azure strumming all its rays
Sang that a famous battle had been won,
As signing his white Cross, the very Sun,
The Solar Christ and captain of my days
Zoomed to the zenith; and his will was done."
-- Mithraic Emblems, Roy Campbell
"Quick now, here, now, always—
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one."
-- Little Gidding (Four Quartets), T. S. Eliot
"But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future's sakes."
-- Two Tramps in Mud Time, Robert Frost
"Are these more orderly? I thank you for the Truth - I had no Monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself, and when I try to organize - my little Force explodes - and leaves me bare and charred - I think you called me 'Wayward.' Will you help me improve? I suppose the pride that stops the Breath, in the Core of Woods, is not of Ourself - You say I confess the little mistake, and omit the large - Because I can see Orthography - but the Ignorance is out of sight - is my Preceptor's charge - Of 'shunning Men and Women' - they talk of Hallowed things aloud - and embarrass my Dog - He and I don't object to them, if they'll exist their side. I think Carl[o] would please you - He is dumb, and brave - I think you would like the Chestnut Tree, I met in my walk. It hit my notice suddenly - and I thought the Skies were in Blossom - Then there's the noiseless noise in the Orchard - that I let persons hear -" -- Letter of Emily Dickinson to T. W. Higginson, August 1862
"I thought: 'I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.'" -- I Captured the Castle, Dodie Smith
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." -- Emily Dickinson
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