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The Hobbit Hole XIX - Tomorrow we may come this way...
The Freeper Hobbit Hole ^
Posted on 01/27/2005 9:59:05 AM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Tomorrow we may come this way...
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by! |
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Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well! |
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Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We’ll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed! |
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To: Ramius
Now *that* would be fun-in-a-box. :-)Heh...it would be. Though...I use Mozilla part time. So I'd not appreciate it. ;-) Unless I was warned, of course! Then it'd be a riot.
4,941
posted on
02/22/2005 5:54:09 PM PST
by
RosieCotton
(A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - GK Chesterton)
To: Ramius
yikes. duty calls. back in a bit.
4,942
posted on
02/22/2005 5:58:09 PM PST
by
Ramius
(Gregoirovich Nyet!)
To: Ramius
I gotta sign off too...Steve'll be home soon.
See you all in the morning.
4,943
posted on
02/22/2005 6:03:26 PM PST
by
2Jedismom
(http://kimsbug.blogspot.com/)
To: Ramius
4,944
posted on
02/22/2005 6:20:04 PM PST
by
Ramius
(Gregoirovich Nyet!)
To: ExGeeEye
< /channeling Heinlein >I didn't read much Heinlein much when I was young, so when I think of life in a Mars colony, I tend to channel Bradbury (shudder).
4,945
posted on
02/22/2005 6:25:35 PM PST
by
Bear_in_RoseBear
(I've got the will, Lord, if you've got the toe)
To: 2Jedismom
I actually drank some in Amsterdam. Sigh, the Tanzania trip is flying thru Amsterdam.
There is still hope...
4,946
posted on
02/22/2005 6:26:08 PM PST
by
Corin Stormhands
(One Iraqi purple finger took more courage than John Kerry's three purple hearts.)
To: 2Jedismom; ExGeeEye; Ramius
4,947
posted on
02/22/2005 6:31:40 PM PST
by
Bear_in_RoseBear
(I've got the will, Lord, if you've got the toe)
To: HairOfTheDog; Corin Stormhands
Clare's troop is selling them, if you don't mind paying some extra for shipping. They'd be $3.50 a box, plus shipping. ;o)
4,948
posted on
02/22/2005 6:31:44 PM PST
by
SuziQ
To: RosieCotton
Glad you got that task behind you, Rosie! It oughta be smooth sailing from now on!
4,949
posted on
02/22/2005 6:33:02 PM PST
by
SuziQ
To: HairOfTheDog; 2Jedismom; RosieCotton; g'nad; JenB; osagebowman; RMDupree; All
's ok. I'm better now.
The following took place between the hours of 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
- On muh way home, wife calls, says we shouldn't give up on Jr. going to Brazil just yet. She thinks he needs nurturin'. I think he needs his @$$ kicked. We have to wait for some final results about school, and he's got to show some initiative. To be quite honest, I don't think I'll see it.
- Got home and wife says "downstairs toilet has been running since I got home." She tried to stop it and broke the float ball off. I was gonna go out and get a new piece. So I cut the water supply off to stop it runnin' and discovered it's leaking in the back. Fortunately, we got a nayber who does plumbing on the side. He's coming tomorrow morning to fix that and the leaky kitchen faucet. (I could but he can be done by the time I figger out the parts. I know my limitations.)
- Went upstairs to change and checked on Nana. She said "I've been bad." She wanted to change the sheets on her bed (it's a hospital bed), so she raised it up and couldn't get it back down. The instructions don't make sense and I thought she'd messed it up for good, but I went back up (after I posted) and figgered it out.
- On top of all that, I feel like crap. But I'm okay.
< / whine>
4,950
posted on
02/22/2005 6:33:52 PM PST
by
Corin Stormhands
(One Iraqi purple finger took more courage than John Kerry's three purple hearts.)
To: RosieCotton
4,951
posted on
02/22/2005 6:34:18 PM PST
by
ExGeeEye
(Nobody ever Buys beer...one can only Rent it...)
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
I don't think I read much Bradbury. Seems to me he's pretty much a downer, tho that might just be the Fahrenheit 451 talking.
4,952
posted on
02/22/2005 6:36:48 PM PST
by
ExGeeEye
(I’m just like Michael Moore, except I’m skinny, my jeans are washed, and God loves me. –Ned Flanders)
To: 2Jedismom
That sounds like that farm you've been wanting, 2J. Just remember, you seem to have powerful friends in High Places. Just look how fast you got your Beetle!!
4,953
posted on
02/22/2005 6:36:55 PM PST
by
SuziQ
To: ExGeeEye
Not your fault! ;-) My computer seems to need a swift kick in the pants. I'm cleanin' it up a bit before bed...
4,954
posted on
02/22/2005 6:37:05 PM PST
by
RosieCotton
(A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - GK Chesterton)
To: ExGeeEye; Bear_in_RoseBear
I don't think I read much Bradbury. "The Veldt" is one of my favorite Bradbury stories.
The "original" holodeck.
4,955
posted on
02/22/2005 6:42:18 PM PST
by
Corin Stormhands
(One Iraqi purple finger took more courage than John Kerry's three purple hearts.)
To: ExGeeEye
Yeah, he's a downer all right. A lot of what he writes is flat-out horror, of the quiet, disturbing kind. But it's all classic stuff. I can recommend
The Martian Chronicles and
The Illustrated Man as good places to start.
The day the shuttle Columbia went down, I kept thinking of Bradbury's short story "Kaleidoscope", which appears in The Illustrated Man. Read it and you'll know why.
4,956
posted on
02/22/2005 6:49:03 PM PST
by
Bear_in_RoseBear
(I've got the will, Lord, if you've got the toe)
To: Corin Stormhands; ExGeeEye
"The Veldt" is also in The Illustrated Man... first story, in fact. Amazon has an excerpt....
4,957
posted on
02/22/2005 6:50:09 PM PST
by
Bear_in_RoseBear
(I've got the will, Lord, if you've got the toe)
To: RosieCotton
Send anything you want! Just don't hold me liable for it.
The church choir started tonight, so I went. It was fun. Not entirely sure it's worth driving 40 minutes to practice for an hour, but choir is something I've missed.
4,958
posted on
02/22/2005 6:55:44 PM PST
by
JenB
To: Bear_in_RoseBear; ExGeeEye
Ouch, Heinlein's Mars Colony was a much more pleasant - and less weird - place than Bradbury's. But if I'm thinking space colony, it's either Luna City, or Ganymede.
4,959
posted on
02/22/2005 6:58:57 PM PST
by
JenB
To: JenB
Yeah, Bradbury has a way of writing about how things might go *wrong*... with space travel, with robots, with just about anything SF.
4,960
posted on
02/22/2005 7:03:01 PM PST
by
Bear_in_RoseBear
(I've got the will, Lord, if you've got the toe)
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