I was cycling across a bridge today, and came across this piece of literature which caught my eye. I liked it so I thought I'd share it.
Here I do visit And from under the eternal stars Rejuvenate from many lands have I paid homages in times
past. I have XSD (crossed) the sea of sand To reach the purple Radfan mountains. Heard I then the Trig El Bill:- ‘The wind passes like a caress over the waves of the desert
sands And the caravan leaves no more trace than a bird’s wing In the air or fish in water. Let us flee the crowd for in the multitude there is No salvation.
All credit on this one goes to timo1, since I saw it in his blog and basically stole it. Anyway;
Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random. Step 2: Post the first line from the first 35 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing. Step 3: Have people guess what songs they are. Step 4: Bold out the songs when someone guesses correctly.(I highlighted them) Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is cheating
1. Give me a little bit of volume on this 2. I know a girl with the Golden Touch 3. Summer in the city where the air is still 4. I took her out, it was a friday night. 5. There's a hole in your logic 6. Make the world go away 7. This is a ballad dat I wrote 8. Thank you for coming home 9. If I say I don't need anyone I can say these things to you 10. Open your eyes cos another day is dawning 11. Somebody better give me a sting 12. Wait by the phone, laid all alone. 13. Your daddy works in porno 14. You can't manufacture a miracle 15. I think about the things I do 16. I'm in you, you're in me, I can't tell 17. I woke the other day 18. And when I see you sigh 19. Yeah I, I get to know your name 20. It's the music that we choose 21. I've been looking for a trace 22. Welcome to the Jungle, we got fun and games 23. Live in a box and then I call it a home 24. She said I'd blow myself away 25. Someone falls to pieces sleeping all alone 26. You're hiding something cos it's burning through your eyes 27. You're so impossible 28. La la la la la la la la la la, I wrote her off for the tenth time today 29. When you're talkin to yourself 30. You light the skies up above me 31. I love you, but I've gotta stay true 32. Downtown in the shade 33. If you could only read my mind 34. 2 Cigarettes, in an ashtray 35. Loose lips sunk ships
Most of these are easy since the first line is actually the title, so no excuses.
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.
Another quote from Othello, again in Act 3 Scene 3, and again by Iago. I love this one too, and I was just reading it thinking about how relevant it is to real life today, over 400 years on from it's original writing.
"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands:
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed."
Ah, Iago, how I adore your language and your deviousness.
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on: that cuckold lives in bliss
Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;
But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!
Ah, Othello is such a lovely thing. Sometimes, when you're acting it out, it's just something I can't describe. And Iago is an amazing guy, you've gotta love him. Yes I realise how pointless this seems to be, but I like it, my favourite line from this play, so why not put something like this on my profile
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