a time for the time after time...
schlaf nicht wieder ein du musst jetzt wach sein denn alles kann passiern und solltest du auch schwach sein es ist zeit für die zeit nach der zeit wär es soweit wärst du bereit wär ich bereit es ist so nah und doch so weit ist es so weit ist es soweit
(from Traurige Lieder by Söhne Mannheims)
the title is the literal translation for the lyrics in italics up above... Das Lied hört sich ganz schön an, finde ich. Irgendwie sowohl sanft als auch stark. Komisch, ne?
sorry, the occasional lapse is into German is necessary. Most people that know me would agree that it's a common occurence, but it usually passes quickly.
So unbelievably excited about next year! I can go lots of places I've been wanting to do to for years... Hopefully I can even visit Sarah in Skandinavien =D yes, that's Scandinavia. Denmark is where she'll be, to be precise. After all these years of being obsessed - and being called Dutch =P - she's finally going there, so I am going to visit her too.
Proof that Latin is weird... Read this! It's a man called Lucretius writing a lecture on Epicurean philosophy - in the form of an epic poem.
Firstly I want to tell you that the mind, which is often called the intellect, in which the guiding and controlling force of life is located, is a part of a human just as much as the hand, foot and eyes exist as parts of the whole living being. Some people have incorrectly said that the mind's consciousness is not fixed in a specific part, but is some sort of life-giving state of the body, which the Greeks call a "harmony"...
However, we must not think that the soul is made up of a single substance ... So the nature of the soul has been discovered to be threefold [made of air, heat and wind], but all these three are not sufficient for the creation of consciousness, since ... these things cannot create the movements required for sensation and whatever the mind thinks about. Therefore there must be a forth substance. It is completely without a name, and nothing exists that is more mobile or tenuous than it...
Well I'd better stop there because, as fascinating as I find my Latin translation, I doubt you feel the same about it as me =D
(from Traurige Lieder by Söhne Mannheims)
the title is the literal translation for the lyrics in italics up above... Das Lied hört sich ganz schön an, finde ich. Irgendwie sowohl sanft als auch stark. Komisch, ne?
sorry, the occasional lapse is into German is necessary. Most people that know me would agree that it's a common occurence, but it usually passes quickly.
So unbelievably excited about next year! I can go lots of places I've been wanting to do to for years... Hopefully I can even visit Sarah in Skandinavien =D yes, that's Scandinavia. Denmark is where she'll be, to be precise. After all these years of being obsessed - and being called Dutch =P - she's finally going there, so I am going to visit her too.
Proof that Latin is weird... Read this! It's a man called Lucretius writing a lecture on Epicurean philosophy - in the form of an epic poem.
Firstly I want to tell you that the mind, which is often called the intellect, in which the guiding and controlling force of life is located, is a part of a human just as much as the hand, foot and eyes exist as parts of the whole living being. Some people have incorrectly said that the mind's consciousness is not fixed in a specific part, but is some sort of life-giving state of the body, which the Greeks call a "harmony"...
However, we must not think that the soul is made up of a single substance ... So the nature of the soul has been discovered to be threefold [made of air, heat and wind], but all these three are not sufficient for the creation of consciousness, since ... these things cannot create the movements required for sensation and whatever the mind thinks about. Therefore there must be a forth substance. It is completely without a name, and nothing exists that is more mobile or tenuous than it...
Well I'd better stop there because, as fascinating as I find my Latin translation, I doubt you feel the same about it as me =D
Shorty last blogged on Thursday, June 15, 2006.
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truly fascinating...
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