They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream
Ernest Downson
1867-1900
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Vares Solvang
It's all Relative
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Lorelei Patel
was here
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09-08-2006 01:16
Now I lay me down to sleep,
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DragonChiq Thereian
Registered User
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09-08-2006 01:42
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lindens the forums will keep. If they close before I wake, I'LL SURF THE FORUMS IN MY SLEEP AMEN. _____________________
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Finning Widget
No Ravens in my Mailbox
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09-08-2006 06:32
Vitae summa brevis, ergo bibimus bonum liquor.
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Mocc Spatula
Death to all fanatics!
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09-08-2006 08:00
Nice Dowson clip, but please - let your Horace trip lightly from the tongue:
"Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam" - not "Nas" "The brief sum of life forbids us the hope of enduring long". Lovely bloke, that Horace. Bit of an age-player, by all accounts, but then weren't they all, back then? Tacitus also had sage words to offer on the topic of the forums closing, of course: "Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant." They make a desert, and they call it peace. _____________________
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Mocc Spatula
Death to all fanatics!
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09-08-2006 08:07
Vitae summa brevis, ergo bibimus bonum liquor. Sorry, I seem to be unable to shift out of pedant mode this morning. "Bibimus" doesn't work, I'm afraid. "Bibamus" would be better in the context of your sentence. An even tighter construction might be to just invoke Seneca's: "Bibamus, moriendum est." ("Let us drink, death is inevitable"  But enough pain-in-the-arse pedantry. Whatever the grammatical niceties of your Latin, I fully endorse the spirit of your call to arms. More booze. Right now. _____________________
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Cocoanut Koala
Coco's Cottages
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09-08-2006 08:31
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind _____________________
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Finning Widget
No Ravens in my Mailbox
Join date: 27 Feb 2006
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09-08-2006 08:38
Sorry, I seem to be unable to shift out of pedant mode this morning. "Bibimus" doesn't work, I'm afraid. "Bibamus" would be better in the context of your sentence. An even tighter construction might be to just invoke Seneca's: "Bibamus, moriendum est." ("Let us drink, death is inevitable" But enough pain-in-the-arse pedantry. Whatever the grammatical niceties of your Latin, I fully endorse the spirit of your call to arms. More booze. Right now. Mmmmmm! Thank you - I love pedantry (no, seriously, I do) and my Latin is terrible. I thank you for your contributions - I was ignorant of Seneca's words when I was thinking this up years ago (As a translation for "Life's too short to drink cheap alcohol." Thankee again! *memorises your name for later mugging^W begging with translation help* |
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Mocc Spatula
Death to all fanatics!
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09-08-2006 08:48
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Thank you. Some more Tacitus, FTW: "Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges." "The more corrupt the state is, the more numerous are the laws." Chortle. Seems appropriate for the day that is in it. _____________________
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