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The Hobbit Hole XXIII - Let them go! Let them go!

Posted on 07/12/2005 8:11:36 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Let them go! Let them go!

New verse:

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!

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!

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: Professional Engineer

Just doin' muh job.


2,561 posted on 07/26/2005 6:15:55 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: osagebowman
Evening PE, welcome again, don't be a stranger.

I've been busy as heck lately. Promotion at werk, along with the largest raise I've ever gotten.

I'm betting that GI trainin' hepped a bit.

2,562 posted on 07/26/2005 6:18:02 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (Dining room, we don't need no stinkin dining room! Classroom space, on the other hand, is valuable.)
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To: Corin Stormhands

LOL


2,563 posted on 07/26/2005 6:18:15 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (Dining room, we don't need no stinkin dining room! Classroom space, on the other hand, is valuable.)
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To: Corin Stormhands

We're at 82...waiting for the front to come through.


2,564 posted on 07/26/2005 6:30:07 AM PDT by Overtaxed (Puffy, reformed chicken.)
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Good morning!
2,565 posted on 07/26/2005 6:30:26 AM PDT by ecurbh (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: ecurbh
STOP SHOUTING!


2,566 posted on 07/26/2005 6:43:06 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: ecurbh

It's Tuesday, it doesn't warrant large red letters.

It's rainy here for the third day in a row. My sister's going to have a distorted view of Colorado.


2,567 posted on 07/26/2005 6:57:50 AM PDT by JenB
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To: Corin Stormhands

Heh...you're always on the lookout for ways to use that picture, ain't ya?


2,568 posted on 07/26/2005 6:58:50 AM PDT by RosieCotton (Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: JenB

On the bright side, it's not even supposed to hit 70 today...

Hey, at least this means that when it DOES stop with the dripping, it'll be cool enough for hiking. I hope it happens soon.


2,569 posted on 07/26/2005 7:00:22 AM PDT by RosieCotton (Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: RosieCotton

Just watched the shuttle launch.... Very exciting.... people with cool jobs.


2,570 posted on 07/26/2005 7:46:58 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

Sigh. Wish I worked for something cool like space travel.


2,571 posted on 07/26/2005 8:19:50 AM PDT by JenB
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To: JenB
Dude, where've you been?

I am around. Just been bored or busy.

*ug*, the caffeine is not kicking in today...

Glad yall got to see "Howl's". Pretty good eh? I need to read to book sometime to compare.
2,572 posted on 07/26/2005 8:37:24 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: TalonDJ

Heh... I think it's the best movie I've seen all year, although it took me forever to get used to the English.

Am rereading the book now, Diana Wynn Jones is a must-read (most of her stuff anyway). Had forgotten how good it is... many of the little details in the movie were exactly right, though there were some really neat innovations (loved how Sophie looked older or younger based on her mood) and the whole war thing.

And busy is an excuse... a lousy one, but an excuse... bored means you should start weird vanities.


2,573 posted on 07/26/2005 8:45:40 AM PDT by JenB
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To: HairOfTheDog

2,574 posted on 07/26/2005 8:52:10 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: Corin Stormhands

What a pretty poster!


2,575 posted on 07/26/2005 8:54:15 AM PDT by Overtaxed (Puffy, reformed chicken.)
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To: JenB
*Yawn* Man.. thought I got enough sleep last night. I guess that part of the dream where I was sleeping in a ditch should have warned me that I was not getting decent sleep.

Weird vanities eh? I almost never look at those things...

Yeah liked that part with the age shifting. It was like a crutch. Her self esteem issues made her rather accepting of the curse and she used it as a crutch mentally. It was like when she was excited she 'forgot' to embrace the curse and her inner exuberance over rode it. I saw it as paralleling her gaining acceptance of who she was. Not so much the curse fading away as her out growing her willingness to view herself that way.
2,576 posted on 07/26/2005 8:55:09 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: Corin Stormhands

mmm shiny robots... is it alright if in my head the robots that will do my job are armed with lasers? and spinny saw arms...


2,577 posted on 07/26/2005 8:59:38 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: TalonDJ; JenB

Last night I dreamed I got attacked by some weird cobra / rattlesnake snake. Hugh. I woke up just as it finally bit me...spent MOST of the dream standing still trying not to breathe and hoping it would go away.

Maybe we'd better NOT go hiking today...


2,578 posted on 07/26/2005 8:59:54 AM PDT by RosieCotton (Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Hm...do you think if I dress in tinfoil, I might be able to land a nice robot job?


2,579 posted on 07/26/2005 9:00:38 AM PDT by RosieCotton (Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: RosieCotton

It might actually help at Starbucks.


2,580 posted on 07/26/2005 9:03:17 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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