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The Hobbit Hole XXIV - Sand and Stone and Pool and Dell...
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Posted on 08/24/2005 9:50:25 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sand and Stone and Pool and Dell...
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: Lil'freeper
5,621
posted on
09/28/2005 4:26:39 PM PDT
by
JenB
(No Plot, No Problem)
To: JenB
I think he shall also have a little aloe plant growing in a pot by the window.
To: Lil'freeper
Will it have an up-link to the Mother Plant? Does it have a role in the assassination?
5,623
posted on
09/28/2005 4:39:25 PM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(Pray, hope, and don't worry. - St. Pio)
To: Lil'freeper
Mwahahaha....
So I was thinking of getting a book by that really lousy author you mentioned, as motivation, but I decided committing suicide before NaNo from horror at word-abuse wasn't really a winning strategy.
5,624
posted on
09/28/2005 4:39:41 PM PDT
by
JenB
(No Plot, No Problem)
To: JenB
Reilly is the type of writer that inspires *laws* - as in there ought to be a *law* limiting the number of times you can write the word "SPLAT" in a single action sequence. A punishable-by-death *LAW*
But hey, the guy got published!
To: RosieCotton
Will it have an up-link to the Mother Plant It might. I think I'm going to have genetically modified aloes growing in a cosmetics plant. They'll have these greusome syringe type things in them bleeding the juices off. It'll make a great cream for wrinkles and if you infuse it with nanites, you can deliver them into the bodies of the rich and famous. Muahahaaa.
To: Lil'freeper
Hehehe. You will have to tell me whether my story is better than his. :-)
5,627
posted on
09/28/2005 4:46:42 PM PDT
by
JenB
(No Plot, No Problem)
To: JenB
Here's a sample:
"At that moment, more gunfire rang out all around them as two more Nazi riverbikes swung in behind them.
Bullets flew everywhere, whizzed over Race's head, and then suddenly - sprack! - Race saw the hideous gout of blood splash out from Doogie's left shoulder as the young Green Beret was hit.
"Arrrrrgggghhh!" Doogie's voice roared over the radio, but somehow he was able to keep up his speed.
Voom-voom-voom. The three American riverbikes shot into the treeline... "
I kid you not.
To: Lil'freeper
Are you series?
Wow...that's just...impressively bad.
Voom-voom-voom!
5,629
posted on
09/28/2005 4:56:13 PM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(Pray, hope, and don't worry. - St. Pio)
To: JenB; Overtaxed; Rose in RoseBear; Bear_in_RoseBear; 2Jedismom; RMDupree; Ramius
Hullo all - back from my looooooong day. And my last meeting was torture.... woman was dumber than a sack of hammers, and I had to teach her.
Thought all of you would be interested to see the construction of the new narrows bridge.... We had the new bridge and the tolls it comes in on... we'd like to see it splash into the drink.
Those are worker walkways that span the distance between the towers.... Who among us would walk those?
I took the above picture on the way home. This one below is from this morning, when it was all socked in with fog. You can see the little guys up there... Would it be easier or harder to walk it fogged in where you can't see the water below?
5,630
posted on
09/28/2005 4:57:10 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: Lil'freeper
I've read better fanfic. Heck, I wrote better fanfic. At 16!
5,631
posted on
09/28/2005 4:57:29 PM PDT
by
JenB
(No Plot, No Problem)
To: HairOfTheDog
Walking that could be fun! I'd be terrified while on it but it'd be fun in hindsight.
5,632
posted on
09/28/2005 4:58:18 PM PDT
by
JenB
(No Plot, No Problem)
To: RosieCotton
Yeah, any writer who has to include sound effects to tell the story is just bad.
To: JenB
I'd be OK I ~think~ because there are handrails. I am deathly afraid of heights, but only if I have nothing to hold on to with my hands.
5,634
posted on
09/28/2005 5:00:07 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: Lil'freeper
In this scene they're going fast. You'd never guess it though:
"Race tried desperately to concentrate as he drove. The speed at which they were traveling was utterly frightening.
It was so fast. So incredibly, incredibly fast!
Tree trunks whooshed past him at phenomenal speed. Wavelets streaked underneath the bow of his riverbike. So quickly were they traveling - so lightly on the surface of the water - that he barely had to touch the handlebars of his bike in order to bank it left or right."
To: HairOfTheDog
There had to be handrails. I wouldn't go if there weren't.
5,636
posted on
09/28/2005 5:06:08 PM PDT
by
JenB
(No Plot, No Problem)
To: JenB
I've told y'all before how I froze on one of those 'ropes' courses they have at kid's camp? I was supposed to walk across a beam, 50 feet above the ground, with a harness on, but nothing to hang on to. I couldn't even budge when they said I could scoot across it on my butt... I was scared to death. I finally did it, they wouldn't let us go back ;~D
The obstacle right before it was the same thing with a rope overhead to hang on to.... no trouble at all with that.
5,637
posted on
09/28/2005 5:10:13 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
I don't blame you! I think I could do it, with a harness, but handrails add so much to your mental wellbeing.
5,638
posted on
09/28/2005 5:14:07 PM PDT
by
JenB
(No Plot, No Problem)
To: JenB
The trouble with the harness is it was hooked to the bottom of the beam. So the rope was slack, so it wasn't going to catch you until you'd dropped several feet. You couldn't rely on it for balance.
5,639
posted on
09/28/2005 5:15:55 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: JenB
You could have a rope walking scene in your plot...
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