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POSTED BY: BELOWZERO
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 19:56
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Sunday, February 12, 2006 8:12 PM

OK, I have this "Everything Book" I keep quotes in, and a whole book of Basho Haiku, and even tho I am rotating my sigs I doubt I'll ever get to them all so here are a few quotes that remind me of Serenity and the 'verse...join in!

Must I document each life and judge it, to
make a place for my own?

The heroic image of my death has you fooled.
I would have it no other way.

As even you can see, you are
what you wish for

Old stone, hold my soul.
When the rockness of you ends,
We will be shining,
We will be dancing shining,
We will be warmth shining.
(Ursula K LeGuin)

All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream
(Edgar Allan Poe)

If I can't dance, it's not my revolution.

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men, and
their story is not graven only on stone over their
day, but abides everywhere without visible symbol,
woven into the stuff of other men's lives.
(Thucydides)

To be human is to be broken...
It even has its own beauty,
to be broken.

If your word is worthless, so are you.

Those that the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Without caution, all clever will do is get you killed.

History is movement, and if you are not riding with it then in all probability, you are beneath its wheels. (Alan Moore)

His hair
the ghost of silk
between my fingers...
His body
the ghost of winter
beneath my hands

Under the hero's helmet
Tarnished now, a cricket (Basho)

The people, we know...
but these days
even scarecrows
do not stand upright (Issa)

Small bird, forgive me
I'll hear the end of your song
In some other world

One dream all heroes find
to be true...cool green grass
on forgotten tombs. (Basho)

Streams of fireflies flow
slowly over the deepest,
darkest rivers.
(Shiyo)

Where does he wander
I wonder, my little one
hunting dragonflies? (Chiyo)

got more but I am up past my bedtime. :) More later.

"Do not go gentle into that good night....
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. . ."
--Dylan Thomas

Though my soul may set in darkness
It will rise in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 8:16 PM

SAINTANDEOL

did someone say Basho haiku?

Clouds appear
and bring to men a chance to rest
from looking at the moon.
-Matsuo Basho

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Monday, February 13, 2006 1:42 PM

GRAYFURY

I'll be in my bunk

"Smellin' alot of IF comin' offa' this plan!"

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Monday, February 13, 2006 2:01 PM

OLDFOGEY

Quote:
Originally posted by BelowZero:

Small bird, forgive me
I'll hear the end of your song
In some other world
...
Though my soul may set in darkness
It will rise in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.

The first one, I'm not going to ask why it reminds
you of Firefly. I'm not I'm not I'm not.

The second one is really really pretty. Love the
last 2 lines.

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Monday, February 13, 2006 3:34 PM

MCALLEN

Quote:
Though my soul may set in darkness
It will rise in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.

BELOWZERO--

I love this poem. I saw this in one of your posts yesterday, and it jogged a memory that's been bugging me ever since. Sometime recently, this line appeared in a movie of television show (not sure if it was something current or something old I saw, although I definitely saw it recently). Are you aware of its inclusion in any movie or tv show? If I don't figure this out soon, I'm going to go NUTS!

MAL: We're still flying.
SIMON: That's not much.
MAL: It's enough.

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Monday, February 13, 2006 3:50 PM

RIVER6213

Look to the dead to teach you survival.

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Monday, February 13, 2006 4:41 PM

CYBERSNARK

Tyger, tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night.
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? --William Blake.

(Specifically, I love the way Rev Bem quotes it in Andromeda "Angel Dark, Demon Bright" --Brent Stait's voice has this inhuman rasp as he does, reminding us that, as a Magog, he is the Tiger. Beautiful in his horror, and terrible in his grace.)

Quote:
Humans have been asking that question since the beginning of time. But my people don't bother. The Magog know the Divine exists. We know it created the stars and the planets, the soft rains and the gentle winds. But we also know it created nightmares. Because it created us.

-----
We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

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Monday, February 13, 2006 5:26 PM

DOG13000

"I'm a large, semi muscular man"

"Someone Ever Tries to Kill You, You Try and Kill Em' Right Back"

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Monday, February 13, 2006 5:32 PM

DOG13000

Crazy first double post - sorry

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Monday, February 13, 2006 6:29 PM

LAUGHINGMUSE

McAllen, I don't know which shows it's been in, but shows about space, or science fiction, are probably a good bet. That's the last bit of a poem by Sarah Williams. That poem is etched (only slightly paraphrased) on a plaque marking astronomer John Brashear's tomb, at the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh PA. The poem is called "The Old Astronomer to His Pupil".

Mankind makes tools; we use them to augment our hands, arms and legs.
The computer augments the brain and this makes it very unpopular with totalitarians. - Charles J.C. Lyall
http://www.titledeleted.com

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Monday, February 13, 2006 6:38 PM

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Futurama has some of the best quotes, but they don’t really pertain to Firefly much.

But this one has a bit of a Firefly feel to it:

“The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin.
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain well seasoned,
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland.
And later that night when the ship's bell rang,
Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?”

Oh, he's so full of manure, that man! We could lay him in the dirt and grow another one just like him.
-- Ruby

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Monday, February 13, 2006 6:44 PM

SPACEMANSPIFF

"The only stars there really are
were shining in your eyes,

There is no sun except the one
that never shone on other guys,

The moon to whom the poets croon
has given up and died,

Astronomy will have to be revised."

-Magnetic Fields, I Don't Believe in the Sun

As an astronomer, I love that verse.

Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?

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Monday, February 13, 2006 7:45 PM

CAPTKAR

"Everybody dies alone." Mal

When the chips are down and you dont think it could get any worse.... get off your ass and cowboy the f()ck up!
(a little profane sorry but I love it)

and of course as also in my signature, "If you want peace prepare for war!" -Latine: Siklis Pakem Parabellum-

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 5:55 PM

LIMINALOSITY

Quote:
Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal: “The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin.”

Oooh, the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Have you ever seen a big storm on Gitche Gumee? It's quite something.

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release
From little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings. ~Amelia Earhart Putnam Courage

Aztecs used the term firefly metaphorically, meaning a spark of knowledge in a world of ignorance or darkness.

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 6:08 PM

BLUEISHBROWNCOAT

"I am not meant for this world. I was born in the wrong century. I was born too late to settle the world and too early to play amongst the stars."
-unknown

I keep quote books too. I love just pageing through them :)

-----------------------------------------
twas a perrty sight as jello was a slingen and the ladies were all in a heap of fun.
Twas a right shiny event for the eyes to feast on.
It was fun!!
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=16371

Hoplessly addicted but in that good sort of way. :)

SCAD/Savannah,GA Browncoat

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 6:22 PM

BELOWZERO

Quote:
Originally posted by mcallen:
Quote:
Though my soul may set in darkness
It will rise in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.

BELOWZERO--

I love this poem. I saw this in one of your posts yesterday, and it jogged a memory that's been bugging me ever since. Sometime recently, this line appeared in a movie of television show (not sure if it was something current or something old I saw, although I definitely saw it recently). Are you aware of its inclusion in any movie or tv show? If I don't figure this out soon, I'm going to go NUTS!

MAL: We're still flying.
SIMON: That's not much.
MAL: It's enough.

I am not gonna be much help here. I don't watch TV ; a friend tapes the CSI and Without a Trace and Crossing Jordan and the Logan episodes of Law and Order for us. If there was a show with that quote I didn't catch it. Sorry.

I understand needing to know where it came from--"this is what it feels like to go insane"--but I've been on sort of a TV strike since Fox canceled...well, you know.
And if it is all on tape I get to FF the commercials and watch an hour's show in 40 minutes.

"Do not go gentle into that good night....
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. . ."
--Dylan Thomas

Though my soul may set in darkness
It will rise in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 8:36 PM

SINGATE

This has nothing to do with the verse but I use part of it in my sig so here it is:

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each striving in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

This is the first paragraph of "The Call of Cthulhu" written by H.P. Lovecraft.

_________________________________________________

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:30 AM

GIXXER

Well, today is B5 Day.

Londo: But this - this, this, this is like being nibbled to death by... what are those Earth creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet... go 'quack'...

Vir: Cats.

Londo: Cats. Being nibbled to death by cats.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:50 PM

BELOWZERO

Quote:
Originally posted by Gixxer:
Well, today is B5 Day.

Londo: But this - this, this, this is like being nibbled to death by... what are those Earth creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet... go 'quack'...

Vir: Cats.

Londo: Cats. Being nibbled to death by cats.

I LOVED B5....*sigh* Some awesome quotes in that show, too.

"Do not go gentle into that good night....
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. . ."
--Dylan Thomas

Though my soul may set in darkness
It will rise in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:56 PM

BELOWZERO

Here's more Basho, and some Buson, and some Issa...guess I'm in a Hailu mood, thank the gods valentine's day is OVER! Now if only the PhD could learn to type/spellcheck...

BASHO:

The winter sun--
on my horse
a frozen shadow

A cicada shell;
it sang itself
utterly away
(for some reason reminded me of Inara)

winter solitude--
in a world of one color
the sound of wind

winter rain--
the field stubble
has blackened

summer grass--
all that's left
of warriors' dreams

Basho's death poem:
Sick on a journey,
my dreams wander
the withered fields alone

BUSON:

Autumn evening--
there's joy also
in loneliness

going home,
the horse stumbles
in the winter wind

Straw sandal half sunk
in an old pond
in the sleety snow

The lights are going out
in the doll shops--
spring rain
(this one reminded me of Kaylee and SImon in the store with the post hole digger for some reason)

A tethered horse
snow
in both stirrups

ISSA:

This moth saw brightness
in a woman's chamber
burnt to a crisp
(RUN, Mal!!)

Autumn evening--
it's no light thing,
being born a man

Visiting the graves
the old dog
leads the way

No talent,
and so no sin,
a winter day

Were it sweet,
it'd be my dew
his dew

Summer night--
even the stars
are whispering to each other

Mother I never knew,
every time I see the ocean,
every time--

"Do not go gentle into that good night....
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. . ."
--Dylan Thomas

Though my soul may set in darkness
It will rise in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.

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