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Word History: We are indebted to the English author Horace Walpole for the word serendipity, which he coined in one of the 3,000 or more letters on which his literary reputation primarily rests. In a letter of January 28, 1754, Walpole says that “this discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word.” Walpole formed the word on an old name for Sri Lanka, Serendip. He explained that this name was part of the title of “a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of....”
Leper Madonna-spineless from the start
Like a Virgin comez to town, you're sucked into the part
Living by your story, spreading your diseaze
Suffah for your glory, falling to your kneez
Friday nite-a brazier in your suitcase
Like a Prayer-death creeping like a nun
Monday-blind devotion came with black lace
Seeee O-ri-on
Leper Madonna-Jaymz iz at your breast
He don't give a fuck-a how you feed the rest
Leper Madonna-Jaymz iz in your bed
Listen to Beatallica raging in your head
Tuesday-you are taken by the glamour
Wednesday-see the sheep are set to come
Thursday-you're a stinking drunk with power
Seeee O-ri-on
Leper Madonna-Heaven you will meet
Make a contribution, get a bettah seat.
Paradise Lost - Grey
In this autumn rain
We're blessed with autumn skies (autumn skies)
I'm doing it for myself
Not somebody else
I'm doing it for myself
Calling out in shame
Silence engrained
Crying out your name
Something wrong but beautiful, so beautiful
In this awesome rage
Rejecting compromise (compromise)
Undoing it for myself
Not somebody else
Undoing for myself
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Some more love poetry here, better verses - here. I guess it depends on the translator;)
He was a mystic, a theologian, a poet, and a lover. In his lifetime, Rumi was inspired by another dervish, Shams Tabriz-i, who was his mentor, friend, and allegedly lover. Shams disappeared mysteriously after spending several years with Rumi. Suffering in bereavement, Rumi attributed many of his works to him, expressing his love and sorrow.
Rumi is best known as the founder of the Whirling Dervishes, or Mevlevi Order who worship God in the form of song and dance ceremony called sema. An annual festival is held each December in Konya, Turkey, in commemoration of this saint-like figure whose dying day is celebrated as his 'wedding' to God. They are open to other religions and are a very tolerant denomination of Islam:
Whoever you may be, come
Even though you may be
An infidel, a pagan, or a fire-worshipper, come
Our brotherhood is not one of despair
Though you have broken
Your vows of repentance a hundred times, come.
If I get Nightfall, I strongly suspect my character's name will be Shams Tabrizi:)
For the cold pale woman
I leave some of my goodness
I leave the veil of sin
And let go my dreams
Eternity follows me everywhere
Your words so hollow won't go anywhere
Distant shadow disappears
It searches the gate beyond the stars
And there I can see her again
Tell me why you have to be so pure and wrong
And I'm alive to be here
Is it just an omen
Is it me walking blindly
I will find the answer
When I wake up from my dream
And there I can kill her again
Кой би ме чул, ако викнех, из вашето воинство
Things need not have happened to be true.
Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure
when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.
И ето както пиша сега, осъзнавам, че само цапам с думи красивото си преживяване. Затова ще спра и оставя мълчанието да го изрази адекватно. Както е казал поетът, тоест аз:
Звукът достига определени граници.
Тишината обгръща всичко.
It feels very nice. But it doesn’t necessarily come as naturally as men seem to think it does: there is pretence involved.
We have to sit at work pretending we’re not missing the children, or we have to sit with the children pretending we’re not missing work. We have to pretend that we are naturally exfoliated, buffed, highlighted, tweezed, plucked and veneered. We have to pretend that everything is pretty much effortless and that we are Superwoman."
The promised picture.
