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| | Lost... | | | | Friday, April 25, 2008 (3:55 PM) | | | I can't believe those bastards killed Alex!!!!!! Fuckers! At least Clair didn't die. That would have been too much for me. I woulda had to quit watching. Im sure she may die at some point, but if both Clair and Alex died in the same episode I would have fliped! | | | 58 Views | 4  Thumbs Up | 2 Comments |  |
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| | so I lied in my last blog.... | | | Thursday, March 13, 2008 (4:32 PM)
(I'm feeling complacent) | | excerpts from Ole the Tower Keeper
by
Hans Christian Andersen
(1859)
Second Visit
It was New Year’s day, and I went up on the tower. Ole spoke of the toasts that were drunk on the transition from the Old Year into the New—from one grave into the other, as he said. And he told me a story about the glasses, and this story had a very deep meaning. It was this:
“When on the New Year’s night the clock strikes twelve, the people at the table rise up with full glasses in their hands, and drain these glasses, and drink success to the New Year. They begin the year with the glass in their hands; that is a good beginning for drunkards. They begin the New Year by going to bed, and that’s a good beginning for drones. Sleep is sure to play a great part in the New Year, and the glass likewise. Do you know what dwells in the glass?” asked Ole. “I will tell you. There dwell in the glass, first, health, and then pleasure, then the most complete sensual delight; and misfortune and the bitterest woe dwell in the glass also. Now, suppose we count the glasses—of course I count the different degrees in the glasses for different people.
“You see, the first glass, that’s the glass of health, and in that the herb of health is found growing. Put it up on the beam in the ceiling, and at the end of the year you may be sitting in the arbor of health.
“If you take the second glass—from this a little bird soars upward, twittering in guileless cheerfulness, so that a man may listen to his song, and perhaps join in ‘Fair is life! no downcast looks! Take courage, and march onward!’
“Out of the third glass rises a little winged urchin, who cannot certainly be called an angel child, for there is goblin blood in his veins, and he has the spirit of a goblin—not wishing to hurt or harm you, indeed, but very ready to play off tricks upon you. He’ll sit at your ear and whisper merry thoughts to you; he’ll creep into your heart and warm you, so that you grow very merry, and become a wit, so far as the wits of the others can judge.
“In the fourth glass is neither herb, bird, nor urchin. In that glass is the pause drawn by reason, and one may never go beyond that sign.
“Take the fifth glass, and you will weep at yourself, you will feel such a deep emotion; or it will affect you in a different way. Out of the glass there will spring with a bang Prince Carnival, nine times and extravagantly merry. He’ll draw you away with him; you’ll forget your dignity, if you have any, and you’ll forget more than you should or ought to forget. All is dance, song and sound: the masks will carry you away with them, and the daughters of vanity, clad in silk and satin, will come with loose hair and alluring charms; but tear yourself away if you can!
“The sixth glass! Yes, in that glass sits a demon, in the form of a little, well dressed, attractive and very fascinating man, who thoroughly understands you, agrees with you in everything, and becomes quite a second self to you. He has a lantern with him, to give you light as he accompanies you home. There is an old legend about a saint who was allowed to choose one of the seven deadly sins, and who accordingly chose drunkenness, which appeared to him the least, but which led him to commit all the other six. The man’s blood is mingled with that of the demon. It is the sixth glass, and with that the germ of all evil shoots up within us; and each one grows up with a strength like that of the grains of mustard-seed, and shoots up into a tree, and spreads over the whole world: and most people have no choice but to go into the oven, to be re-cast in a new form.
“That’s the history of the glasses,” said the tower-keeper Ole, “and it can be told with lacquer or only with grease; but I give it you with both!”
to read the full story go here http://www.fairytalescollection.com/Hans_Christian_Anderson/Ole_the_Tower_Keeper.htm | | | | 82 Views | 0 Thumbs Up | 0 Comments | |
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| | a blog | | | Sunday, February 24, 2008 (8:47 AM)
(I'm feeling drunk) | | | hello all my beautiful subscribers, and welcome to my blog. I don't usually write blogs for many reasons. one of witch is my horrible spelling, not to mention my often miss use of punctuation. The only reason I am writing this now is because I saw that I had 15 views of my blog page and wanted to put somthing there for people to read when they do come by. so weather you are reading this on the day it was written, or if your reading this and Barrak Obama is president, Thanks for stoping by my Blog page and taking an intrest in me, but don't bother coming back here because this is most likely the only blog I will post. | | | | 82 Views | 2 Thumbs Up | 1 Comment | |
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