(( Didn't want to spoil the experience by showing too many spiffy pictures. It's pretty easy for everyone to get to this place now and see the shiny. ))
Dec 23, 2006
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Photo Op
Dec 10, 2006
Aubade
An aubade is a poem or song of or about lovers separating at dawn. The form has some dramatic elements, since the poem is often a dialogue between the lovers, one saying that dawn is near and they must part, and the other answering no. There is often a refrain, in which the watchman, or occasionally the jealous husband, warns the lovers of the approaching dawn.
Aubades were in the repertory of troubadours in Europe in the Middle Ages. An early English example is in Book III of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. The love poetry of the 16th century dealt mostly with unsatisfied love, so the aubade was not a major genre in Elizabethan lyric. However, there is an aubade embedded in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, starting with the famous lines:
Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear
The aubade gained in popularity again with the advent of the metaphysical fashion; John Donne's poem "The Sunne Rising" is one of the finest examples of the aubade in English. Aubades were written from time to time in the 18th and 19th century, although none of them quite up to metaphysical standards.
From Wikipedia.
(( beta belf priestess, pondering the motives of the Naaru. ))
Aubades were in the repertory of troubadours in Europe in the Middle Ages. An early English example is in Book III of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. The love poetry of the 16th century dealt mostly with unsatisfied love, so the aubade was not a major genre in Elizabethan lyric. However, there is an aubade embedded in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, starting with the famous lines:
Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear
The aubade gained in popularity again with the advent of the metaphysical fashion; John Donne's poem "The Sunne Rising" is one of the finest examples of the aubade in English. Aubades were written from time to time in the 18th and 19th century, although none of them quite up to metaphysical standards.
From Wikipedia.
(( beta belf priestess, pondering the motives of the Naaru. ))
Oct 27, 2006
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Sep 2, 2006
Mockery of an Institution
(( I finally got to processing the pictures from the Hearing. It was a blast. It was hilarious and well played by all parties. Sweetptetal, Plaeglottis, Sweet's tart, Gromdaloyr, Satyra... and the peanut gallery! It was all amazing. And here I always thought Saffiy would have a trial for an actual crime she committed. ;) ))
The peanut gallery cheers for Sweetpetal and boos at Saffiy.
Saffiy aided by Gromdaloyr and Satyra.
The University is found guilty of the second charge.
... and the third.
The full decision is here.
The peanut gallery cheers for Sweetpetal and boos at Saffiy.
Saffiy aided by Gromdaloyr and Satyra.
The University is found guilty of the second charge.
... and the third.
The full decision is here.
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Field Trip to Darkshore
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