Friday, November 20, 2009

Crusaders


My friend Sean has written very well on the truth about the Crusades. Please follow this link: http://mapskeysclocks.blogspot.com/2009/11/stark-assessment.html


(Thanks, Sean.)

Dreaming of Spring


"Aure entuluva! day shall come again!"


--J.R.R. Tolkien

Regarding hobbits


"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."


--J.R.R. Tolkien's first written words regarding hobbits

Vita Nuova



I stood by the unvintageable sea


Till the wet waves drenched face and hair with spray;


The long red fires of the dying day


Burned in the west; the wind piped drearily;


And to the land the clamorous gulls did flee:


'Alas!' I cried, 'my life is full of pain,


And who can garner fruit or golden grain


From these waste fields which travail ceaselessly!'


My nets gaped wide with many a break and flaw,


Nathless I threw them as my final cast


Into the sea, and waited for the end.


When lo! a sudden glory! and I saw


From the black waters of my tortured past


The argent splendour of white limbs ascend!




--Oscar Wilde

Doubts and fears


“Wilbur was merely suffering the doubts and fears that often go with finding a new friend. In good time he was to discover that he was mistaken about Charlotte. Underneath her rather bold and cruel exterior, she had a kind heart, and she was to prove loyal and true to the very end.”



--from E.B. White's Charlotte’s Web