-Volume 12, 15 March, 1998 -

THOUGHTS, VERSES, QUOTES...
-contributions of Lt. Peregrine [Morale Officer]-

THOUGHT

"China is not my enemy. I have no physical 'enemy'. One only has to watch for the enemy within."

The daughter of debate
Who discord aye doth sow
Hath reaped no gain
Where former reign
Hath taught still peace to grow.

--Queen Elizabeth I--

"Few aspects of human nature are so persistent as our need to believe in things unseen."

--Lyall Watson on Supernature--

"Love is blind but friendship closes its eyes"

--unknown--

"Tell me who you love and I will tell you who you are"

--Houssaye--

"A hierarchical society is possible only through a basis of poverty and ignorance."

--Anonymous--


VERSE

look at love
how it tangles
with the one fallen in love

look at spirit
how it fuses with earth
giving it new life

why are you so busy
with this or that or good or bad
pay attention to how things blend

why talk about all
the known and the unknown
see how unknown merges into the known

why think separately
of this life and the next
when one is born from the last

look at your heart and tongue
one feels but deaf and dumb
the other speaks in words and signs

look at water and fire
earth and wind
enemies and friends all at once

the wolf and the lamb
the lion and the deer
far away yet together

look at the unity of this
spring and winter
manifested in the equinox

you too must mingle my friends
since the earth and the sky
are mingled just for you and me

be like sugarcane
sweet yet silent
don't get mixed up with bitter words

my beloved grows
right out of my own heart
how much more union can there be

--Nader Khalili, ghazals--

Jangan gentar
Jangan gentar
Jika putih layarmu
Jangan gentar
Jangan gentar
Jika terang mimpimu

Kita suka kerana cinta
Kita duka kerana cinta, cintanya

Jangan gentar
Jangan gentar
Jika bersih hatimu
Jangan gentar
Jangan gentar
Jika tepat cerminmu

Kita suka kerana cinta
Kita duka kerana cinta, cintanya
Kita datang kerana cinta
Kita pulang kerana cinta, cintanya

Rentaplah talimu
Keliplah sinarmu
Kibarlah sayapmu

--JANGAN GENTAR by Exists--

"I don't like your tragic size,
As if your god has passed you by"

--Sarah McLachlan, Ice in FTE--

Steady repetition is a compulsion mutually re-enforced.
Now what does that mean?
Is there a just contradiction?
Nothing much.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord, hesitate.

Got to punch
Right on target
Twisting tongues
Gotta stripe down his back
all nine yards down her back

Give me a couple,
Don't give me a couple of pointers,
Turn to lies and conversation fear

Got to punch
Right on target
Twisting tongues
Gotta stripe down his back
all nine yards down her back

Give me a couple,
Don't give me a couple of pointers,
Turn to lies and conversation fear

What is in my mind?
What is in my mind?

Steady repetition is a compulsion mutually re-enforced.
Now what does that mean?
Is there a just contradiction?
Nothing much.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake, oh come on, hesitate, hesitate.

Got to punch
Right on target
Twisting tongues
Gotta stripe down her back
all nine yards down his back

Give me a couple,
Don't give me a couple of pointers,
Turn to lies and conversation fear

Conversation fear. Conversation fear. Conversation fear.

--9-9 by REM. Murmur--

let me surround you, my sea to your shore...
let me be the calm you seek ...

--Sarah Maclachlan, I Love You [Surfacing]--
Uncle Sam's Solo in the Concert of Powers by CES Wood
[A protest against American Imperialism in any guise]

Tune: Kill everyone over ten years of age, and leave the provinces a howling wilderness.

Come, let us sing and laugh --
Enjoy the wine we quaff;
'Tis children's blood,
A warm, red flood,
And is not bad by half.

Chorus:
We are a powerful nation;
In the interest of humanity
We wage a war -- but strictly by
The rules of Christianity.
We've learned some ancient tortures,
But we pump with great urbanity,
For we are highly civilized,
And we whipped Spain!

They're young and brown and slim --
So tender -- lithe of limb;
The children lie
Beneath the sky,
Shot down in name of Him!

Chorus:
And spreads a Herod fear
Whenever we come near;
And mothers moan,
For, like our own,
Their babes to them are dear.

Chorus:
It is our pious job,
Though many millions sob,
To teach the youth
The precious truth --
Of Destiny by God.

Chorus:
Now all you pulpiteers,
Go tell to Christian ears
That war is good --
Christ's precious blood
Is glad of mother's tears.


QUOTE

He revealeth the deep and secret things; he knoweth what is in the darkness and the light dwelleth with him.

--1:22 Book of Daniel--

"Yeah, I met the Pope. He thought I was cool."

--Sarah McLachlan in Quelle Surprise Interview--

"I'm not excluding men, I'm just celebrating women"

--Sarah McLachlan on the Lilith Fair--

"People who're in love have no business being prudent."

--Ray Vecchio, Due South (You Must Remember This)--

Fraser: But how do you know?
Ray: You just know.

--The guys on love, Due South (You Must Remember This)--

"I'm a million different people from one day to the next....."

--Bittersweet Symphony, The Verve--

"Music and singing do not produce in the heart that which was not in it"

--Abu Sulaiman al-Davani--

"...can you look out the window without your shadow getting in the way"

--Sarah Maclachlan--

"The best thing that you've ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously cause it's only life, after all."

--Emily Saliers, "Closer to Fine"--


PHRASE

Hebrew[from the Old Testament]: Hamme-adatha
English: Gift of the Moon

Old Egyptian: Genne-se-ir-ethe
English: Voice of Thunder


FUNEE

"Einstein once said that any man who liked marching had given his brain for nothing: just the spinal column would have done. But I wasn't Einstein. Since most of one's time in the army is waster anyway, I preferred to waste it by moving about in a precise manner."

--Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs--

#7 - First Law of Temporal Mortality
'Good Guys' and 'Bad Guys' both die in one of two ways. Either so quick they don't even see it coming, OR it's a long drawn out affair where the character gains much insight to the workings of society, human existence or why the toast always lands butter side down.

--from The Laws Of ANIME/Japanese Animation--

"Sir, your car's on fire. And the other cars feel threatened." <sic>

--Benton Fraser, Due South--

"...And then he knew. She was the one. I mean, how often do you see someone eat cheesecake with a knife and a fork!"

--Ray, Due South (You Must Remember This)--

Graphics taken from (in no particular order) Wizard Clipart, Phillip's Due South Picture Library, The Negaverse Generals Page of Pure Evil, Mission Status, and .



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