I. STYLOBATES MARMOREUS
The pedestal was empty. To its side
stood she who just had occupied the stand
a plinth of smoothest marble, white as wings
of birds, the flocks that wheeled overhead.
She was Marie of Datoíri, chief
ambassador for all that region known
as the Imaginary Planets faméd
clime. This league of five small planets had
seceded, as we know, from all the rest,
so that it might provide a haven and
asylum for all those in discontent
with customs of the ordinary world.
Its institutions and its people strove
to uphold standards of integrity
Ignobility: Praefatio by renaissance1912, literature
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Ignobility: Praefatio
PRAEFATIO
Tell me whether the dead return.
I ask, O Muse, not only for the one
whose story we shall tell, but for my sake
as well: the poet dare not answer this
herself. Its resolution is too fraught
with gloom for her, with dark and winding paths
that twist in sharp returns to ever more
sinister realms, where flitting specters hide
and whisper menaces half-heard. Such is
the labyrinth of the mind. So spin, O Fates,
upon your golden looms, and aid us both:
the puzzled Muse, and I, as yet still blind.
Our story, then, concerns a hero but
one sung, thus far, in quiet tones, compared
to most. The bard
I am leaving...sort of.
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this is James reporting from Niagara Falls!
Been here for the last two days,took the Maid of the Mist boat right next to the falls, took the Cave of the Winds tour as well. secretly filled a bottle with water from the falls!
Spent a lotta time at the 'Great Canadian Midway' near our hotel, its really a sensory overload! Neon lights everywhere, music constantly playing, tourist attractions with overdone decorations. So far my parents and I have been on the ferris wheel, motion simulator ride (john cleese is in the movie they show with it!), the "Ripley's Believe it or Not" museum (in my opinion the one in NYC is better), done one of those ri
I once thought I had no worth because I had not yet reached the destination, and that upon reaching the destination I would earn worth. But that is a falsehood. Now I understand. I will not earn worth upon reaching the destination, I already have worth. I have worth because I am that which can travel the path.