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Posts Tagged: roads


Posts Tagged ‘roads’

Saturday, April 16th, 2011

Adieu, slow journeys

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Never again will we hear stamping on the road
The lively foot of a horse on the burning cobbles;
Adieu, slow journeys, distant noises that one hears,
The laughter of the passersby, the slow turning of the wheel,
The unexpected bend on varying slopes,
A friend met, the hours forgotten,
The hope of arriving late in the wild place.

Distance and time are defeated. Science
Traces around the earth a sad and straight road.
The world is reduced by our experience
And the equator is only too narrow a ring.
Chance is no longer. Everyone will slip along his line
Immobile in the single place which departure allots him,
Immersed in a silent and cold calculation.

A. de Vigny

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

“Do you not want, Servius, to rule yourself and to remember that you were born a man?”*

Two yellow roads to follow diverged ... and there was no undergrowth to be found.

Or something. Yeah, the not-so-creative merging of Robert Frost and The Wizard of Oz, that’s done with now. Other than that, I am restless, and writing, and nostalgic. Feelings/occupations which are kind of related, but also exist independently from one another. I also am glad that spring is finally here, and we’re back on summer time (I want to keep it always). Living in the North, it really is not for me. Also, lets put those boats back in the sea! Let’s get some sailing in, before we get much older.

*Servius Sulcipius Rufus to Cicero. Epistulae ad familiars, IV, 5: M. Tulli Ciceronis Epistulae, vol 1, Oxford UP, 1982, 111-12