Fire and Ice

by Robert Frost


Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
....

Sigh

The seniors are taking up world literature and yesterday we discussed The Pillow Book, a journal by a lady-in-waiting during the Heian dynasty in Japan.

It's a precursor for a Japanese literary form called zuihitsu or “occasional writings.”

This one's my favorite.

Things That Arouse A Fond Memory of the Past

Dried hollyhock. The objects used during the Display of the Dolls. To find a piece of deep violet grape-colored material that has been pressed between the pages of a notebook.

It is a rainy day and one is feeling bored. To pass the time, one starts looking through some old papers. And then one comes across the letters of a man one used to love.

Last year's paper fan. A night with a clear moon.

Name That Tune

Pick out your 20-25 favorite songs.

Pick out a line from each (try not to use the chorus or title of the song). List them and see if people on your friends list can guess them. Once one is guessed correctly, strike it out


1) "I wouldn't change a thing now that you're here."


2) "We both have shiny happy fits of rage."


3) "I'm thinking it's a sign, that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned."


4) "Sleight of had and twist of fate, on a bed of nails she makes me wait."


5) "She got a dark skinned friend look like Michael Jackson, got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson."


6) "And you bet I felt it."


7) "Baby you don't understand, our love lies lost but, you're still holding my hand."


8) I could drink a case of you, and still be on my feet.


9) "Darling don't you look fine."


10) "I see you frowning it's like looking down the barrel of a gun."


11) "No song that I can sing, but I can try for your heart."


12) "Minsan ay parang wala nang bukas, sa buhay natin, inuman sa magdamag, na para bang tayo's mauubusan."


13) "Come up to the spot looking extra fly. Till the day I die, Ima touch the sky"


14) "Sure I can accept that it's going nowhere, but one last time let's go there."


15) "And you turn to me like, a gull takes to the wind. I'd have jump, from my seat, I'd have danced like the queen of the eyesores, the rest of our lives would have fared well."


16) "I miss the typewriter in the basement, I miss making your room, a mess."


17) "I'm in the mood for you, or running away."


18) "That's sugarcane that tasted good, that's cinammon, that's Hollywood."


19) "I feel like this is the beginning, though I loved you for a million years."


20) "And you know it aches, and your heart it breaks, it can only take so much..."


21) "Oh May, do you wanna get married, or run away?"


22) "I know I got black eyes, but they burn, so brightly for her. Guess it's a blind kind of love."


24) "Still a little bit of your ghost, your weakness, still a little bit of your face, I haven't kissed."


25) "All we care about is talking, talking only me and you."