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imaginedyou) wrote2007-03-10 06:38 pm
imaginedyou) wrote2007-03-10 06:38 pm
Entry tags:
31_Days Prompts 2006;
4 January 2006. No good advice
6 January 2006. Valsa de Eurydice / Samba de Orfeu [Waltz of Eurydice / Samba of Orpheus]
7 January 2006. Cactus
8 January 2006. Pure Vernunft darf niemals siegen [Pure reason must never win] (lyrics)
11 January 2006. Country of the wolves
12 January 2006. What the snowman learned about love [WIP; Prince of Tennis, OT5]
13 January 2006. A red letter day
14 January 2006. Me plus one
15 January 2006. Cosmic dare (pretty with a pistol)
17 January 2006. Gold for the price of silver
18 January 2006. Power out (neighborhood #3)
19 January 2006. Losing my edge
20 January 2006. Cyberabad
21 January 2006. Joy in repetition
22 January 2006. Dead cities, red seas & lost ghosts
24 January 2006. Elegy of armistice (lyrics)
25 January 2006. From the edge of the deep green sea
26 January 2006. Cavaleiro monge [Monastic knight ("Cabalo de Sombra, Cavaleiro Monge" by Fernando Pessoa)] (lyrics).
28 January 2006. Hallelujah / True faith
29 January 2006. Southern belles in London sing
30 January 2006. Radical dreamers (without taking the jewel)
31 January 2006. ??????? [If I could live with you]
1 February 2006: long lost fables
2 February 2006: child found crying in the winter tree
3 February 2006: lemongrass summer
4 February 2006: drowned fields
5 February 2006: midnight market
6 February 2006: the lady that found the moon
7 February 2006: cross my palm with silver, I cannot tell a lie
8 February 2006: the concubine's laughter
9 February 2006: mad in the teahouse
10 February 2006: pick my love up with chopsticks
11 February 2006: at the sight of the ki-lin
12 February 2006: the chrysanthemum promise
13 February 2006: a killing dance
14 February 2006: 4
15 February 2006: embroider me with tears
17 February 2006: unbound hair
18 February 2006: bone flute
19 February 2006: the fairy's wish/demise
20 February 2006: the blood that drips from heaven
21 February 2006: a thousand li
22 February 2006: the ox's kindness
23 February 2006: a bridge of magpies
24 February 2006: candlelight under the waters
25 February 2006: the sea king's palace
26 February 2006: tricked fox
27 February 2006: the filial child
28 February 2006: return my heart when I am dead
07. cross my palm with silver, I cannot tell a lie
It's more of a gypsy thing than an actual wuxia theme, but it deals with fortunetelling on the streets, usually.
08. the concubine's laughter.
It's an old myth. The Emperor made his favourite concubine his wife, but she never smiled. He took her on a trip and she saw signal fires being ignited and began to laugh. People thought that they were being summoned to war, and thus came, but were angry that the fires were being ignited for nothing. As time passed, the Emperor discovered that his Empress would never laugh unless the signal fires were lighted, and it got to a point where when invaders really DID come and the fires were ignited, the people did not gather together and thus China was conquered.
11. at the sight of the ki-lin.
Confucius' mother was said to have been visited by the ki-lin, the Chinese version of the unicorn. She was told that her son would grow up to be a king among men, but without a throne. Generally speaking, the ki-lin is said to be a good omen and would appear to select people on rare occasions.
12. the chrysanthemum promise & 21. a thousand li
"The Chrysanthemum Promise" is the name of a folktale. I know there's a Korean version of it, and I think there's a Chinese one as well, though the variations are pretty similar, I believe. The story goes: a scholar falls gravely ill while in the Capital, and is nursed back to health by a fellow scholar and friend. He recovers, but not long after, is summoned back to his home province and must leave. Before his departure, the friends make a promise to meet again one year later in the Capital.
One year later, the friend prepares for this meeting, laying out a feast and waiting. The scholar finally appears in the hours before morning, and reunited at last, they speak together. As dawn approaches, however, the scholar must take his leave again, and even as the morning light falls on them, the friend realises that he is a spirit. He tells his friend that caught up in the affairs of his home province, he had forgotten of their promise, and remembered only on the night itself. With no other way to travel a thousand li ('li' is a way of measuring distance) in a single night and keep his vow, he had slain himself on his sword, that his spirit may keep his promise for him.
14. 4
The number 4 in Chinese sounds very similar phonetically to the word "death." It's considered a bad luck number.
19. the fairy's wish/demise
The Jade Emperor issued an edict in Heaven that no one may fall in love, and that the punishment for falling and acting on their love would end in death.
22. the ox's kindness
Again, several myths associated with this. In the story about the zodiac, the rat leaps onto the ox's back, which enables it to take first place. In the myth of the Cowherd and the Weaver, the ox tells the Cowherd to kill it so that the Cowherd could make a skin that would enable it to go to Heaven.
23. bridge of magpies
Related to the story of the Cowherd and Weaver, it is said that once a year, magpies would fly to Heaven and form a bridge so that the Cowherd and Weaver may meet
27. filial child
This is really a dimly remembered story from the depths of my childhood imagination, but I'm pretty sure this is a legitimate myth. XD It's the story of a wicked woman who was sent to the eighteenth level of hell for her ways, but her son, a pious monk and faithful son, descended into hell and said that he would take her place. They were both eventually released, and the mother was reformed.
28. return my heart when I am dead
As crazy as this one is, it's said that when someone dies, all their organs must be with them at the time of burial.
1 March 2006: Yes is a pleasant country
2 March 2006: Nothing false and possible
3 March 2006: A sunbeam's architecture; a mountain's heartbeat
4 March 2006: The truth to summer's lie
5 March 2006: A good universe next door
6 March 2006: Shall hate confound the wise? doubt blind the brave?
7 March 2006: Hate blows a bubble of despair
8 March 2006: I say no world can hold a you
9 March 2006: Nothing quite so least as truth
10 March 2006: Praising a forehead called the moon
11 March 2006: To fabricate unknown-ness
12 March 2006: Eternity's a five year plan
13 March 2006: To morning's beautiful friend, twilight
14 March 2006: His autumn's winter being summer's spring
16 March 2006: The music of spring lives
17 March 2006: Eat of her voice
18 March 2006: God's terrible face
19 March 2006: The image of one fatal word
20 March 2006: Eyes which are really petals
21 March 2006: Frailer than most deep dreams
22 March 2006: Your body's whitest song
23 March 2006: The ragged meadow of my soul
24 March 2006: What could be more beautiful than these heroic happy dead?
25 March 2006: Bring forth your flowers and machinery
27 March 2006: Nobody loses all the time; there is no excuse for May
28 March 2006: You of my heart; Spring is like a perhaps hand
29 March 2006: Accept all happiness from me
30 March 2006: Into the silver dawn
31 March 2006: Thy fingers make early flowers of all things; to be thy lips is a sweet thing
* - Broken Links
1 May 2006 - It don't go nowhere but damnation
2 May 2006 - And it's one for the morning glory
3 May 2006 - about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters
4 May 2006 - Dealing futures from the deck of swords
5 May 2006 - What do you think is the moral of the story?
6 May 2006 - Your masterful hand with whip or sword
7 May 2006 - Came out of their trance into time again
9 May 2006 - Watch your chance and hit him with a brick.
10 May 2006 - the night grows darker yet
11 May 2006 - I am the spirit that denieth all things
12 May 2006 - Open, locks, to the Human's hand
13 May 2006 - Love passed into the House of Lust
14 May 2006 - the finely detailed insanity you've come to expect
15 May 2006 - a little taste of power and a shiny uniform
18 May 2006 - Madame was very particular about her bedchambers
20 May 2006 - I am the right hand of vengeance
21 May 2006 - I chose to do wrong in the hope that right might come.
22 May 2006 - in the gate of broken seals
23 May 2006 - sooner or later he brings up the Templars
25 May 2006 - If God must take, she thought, let him take all...
26 May 2006 - We only come to sleep, we only come to dream
28 May 2006 - One does not say must to princes.
29 May 2006 - And the white light can be broken.
30 May 2006 - The dose makes the poison.
31 May 2006 - There are traces of blood in a fairy tale.
1 June 2006. wind chimes moved by solar winds
2 June 2006. in search of me
4 June 2006. the book of questions [from the poetry of Pablo Neruda]
5 June 2006. a single soul dwelling in two bodies [part of famous quotes from Aristotle]
6 June 2006. the world is mine
8 June 2006. love me, love my dog
9 June 2006. in the sea
10 June 2006. love until it hurts
11 June 2006. shoot to kill
12 June 2006. kissing number
13 June 2006. a sound not fit for human ears
14 June 2006. stone shadows
15 June 2006. shaved ice, slow fan, summer heat
16 June 2006. like a heart that stumbles into knowledge
18 June 2006. snow on the mountains, flowers in the fields
19 June 2006. frozen watermelons
21 June 2006. ring of wild roses
22 June 2006. silhouette of your wings
23 June 2006. Love, unconquered in the fight [from Antigone by Sophocles]
24 June 2006. in fire and in blood [from the poetry of Pablo Neruda]
25 June 2006. messages in the sand
26 June 2006. night of exile
27 June 2006. secret story
28 June 2006. until our souls disappear
29 June 2006. a day to live and die
30 June 2006. moon animals
7 July 2006: Racism in among future kings can only lead to no good
8 July 2006: Ignoring your conscience allows you to justify everything
9 July 2006: Am I encased in this devil's plan?
11 July 2006: Put away my black book
12 July 2006: The censorship of my skin
13 July 2006: This pain in our hearts
14 July 2006: I can’t stop hungering for otherness
15 July 2006: God made the distance between me and you
16 July 2006: Born through the winds of time
17 July 2006: All the dreams sing their song
18 July 2006: Days of grass and sun
19 July 2006: To stand on the line of hope
20 July 2006: But if you've known love like the jokers before
21 July 2006: Treat him like a lady
22 July 2006: I'll throw you to the floor
23 July 2006: Wait for other bedtime treats
24 July 2006: How does it feel when you're inside me?
25 July 2006: An electric love in her eyes
26 July 2006: Your companion of soul understanding
27 July 2006: There's something magic in the air
28 July 2006: To go where all the strange ones go
29 July 2006: Let the world around us fade
30 July 2006: Remember the old days
1 August 2006: Disparagers of love, now hear my song.
2 August 2006: There is a palace, and the ruined wall/ Divides the sand, a very home of tears,/ And where love whispered of a thousand years/ The silken-footed caterpillars crawl.
3 August 2006: This is the turbulent sea of your night seething, cross over.
4 August 2006: Tell him who looks for heaven to run along to hell.
6 August 2006: Armed with love's weaponry he rides on beauty's steed.
7 August 2006: You would think that she is walking upon eggs and green bottles.
8 August 2006: To love is to kiss, to touch hand or arm or to send letters whose / spells are stronger than witchcraft. Love is nothing but this.
9 August 2006: I am he whom I love and he whom I love is I.
10 August 2006: Quick at your word, all skill, grace,/ He is, but for death his passion, flawless.
11 August 2006: Recalling a house and a lady, dismount where the winds cross.
12 August 2006: Listen to the shiver of wings at your side--it is my desire, and/ still, still, I am shaking with it.
13 August 2006: Believe me, moonlight is the stuff whereof/ My lady's limbs are made. I offer proof.
14 August 2006: And my grief at parting from you is like that of the turtle-dove,/ which brings pleasure to the hot listener, retired in a thickly-leaved/ tree from the heat of summer, like a singer behind a curtain.
15 August 2006: You recognize the fragrance of one you desire and a less obvious sadness.
16 August 2006: I go blindly,/ As if I am pursuing the beauty of something/ Before me but unclear.
17 August 2006: As for refined love -- let others claim it./ May God, instead, give me contentment.
18 August 2006: My heart is capable of every form:/ Pasture for deer, a monastery for monks,/ Temple for idols.
19 August 2006: Injustice calls to God for pardon; ask him to pardon your injustice.
20 August 2006: I have tasted the bitter and the sweet of affairs/ And walked over the rough and smooth path of days.
21 August 2006: Strange things they declared time would reveal in direful summer/ months.
22 August 2006: Sword tells more truth than books; its parting wisdom from vanity.
23 August 2006: The sun was a flower, the evening, crescent moons, the arrows were/ rain, and the swords were lightning flashes.
24 August 2006: So keep your silence, and know: This man, unless slain, is fated to die.
25 August 2006: May the morning clouds refresh you at this distance,/ and may abundant rains comfort you forever!
26 August 2006: Your place in my heart is the whole of my heart.
27 August 2006: Where now are kings and where/ are the men who passed this way before you?
28 August 2006: In sorrow to be here again, I am loving you.
29 August 2006: Coloured is the rose of spring, white the rose of December.
30 August 2006: How strange that we, perambulating dust, should be the vessels of/ eternal fire.
31 August 2006: Peace it is, till the rising of the dawn.
1 September 2006. and the hearts of all mankind can be embittered
3 September 2006. engineering consent
4 September 2006. objects reflected from the impassioned imagination
5 September 2006. between two worlds I do belong
6 September 2006. remember this day
7 September 2006. leapfrog technology
8 September 2006. the wild purple of the glowering sun
9 September 2006. represented by the phallic mother
10 September 2006. the flying redhead
11 September 2006. Prague Spring
12 September 2006. the inflexible, the irreconcilable, the stubborn
13 September 2006. I am following the enemy
14 September 2006. Orinda and Lucasia
15 September 2006. you and the piece are at the same point of unfolding
16 September 2006. a psychopathic god
17 September 2006. the dead of Stalingrad adjure us
18 September 2006. such is the bondage of folly
19 September 2006. relational aesthetics
20 September 2006. lettres de cachet
21 September 2006. Greece with its immortal glories
22 September 2006. between Cinderella or Kafka's Cockroach
23 September 2006. shed blood becomes a sea
24 September 2006. bioremediation
25 September 2006. as the looms on which men wove
26 September 2006. Game and set to you, Quicksilver
27 September 2006. the seductive degradation of knowledge
28 September 2006. a world order governed by rules
29 September 2006. immigrants and revolutionists
30 September 2006. beyond the sky
1 October 2006. coffee and a kick in the pants [WIP; Prince of Tennis, Eraser]
2 October 2006. hello darkness my old friend
3 October 2006. snow white rose red
4 October 2006. wherever this may find you
5 October 2006. swing low sweet chariot
6 October 2006. overwork
7 October 2006. a light called you
8 October 2006. worse than his bite
9 October 2006. every day is the end of the world
10 October 2006. suicide is painless
11 October 2006. take one and call me in the morning
12 October 2006. what you pay for
13 October 2006. feel my heart beat
14 October 2006. cure for the itch
15 October 2006. things I will regret
16 October 2006. you looked better on mySpace
17 October 2006. Jerusalem syndrome
18 October 2006. good cop, bad cop
19 October 2006. we'll go no more a-roving
20 October 2006. all the king's horses
21 October 2006. how many miles to Babylon?
22 October 2006. a dark and stormy night
23 October 2006. fairy tale ending
24 October 2006. it is the eclipse
25 October 2006. your unknown colour
27 October 2006. vade mecum
28 October 2006. jam tomorrow
29 October 2006. RTFM
30 October 2006. you might as well live
31 October 2006. what goes bump in the night
1. Way back when dinosaurs ruled the earth Meg was in college and one of her advisors had a sign that said, basically, TEA AND SYMPATHY IS SOLD OUT, NOW SERVING COFFEE AND A KICK IN THE PANTS.
02. Sound of Silence, by Simon and Garfunkel
17. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_syndrome.
24. As the gate clanged open to let them out, they stepped into a wan and awful darkness. The June day had risen long ago, but only a pale and yellowish gleam lit the half-deserted streets. And it was bitterly cold and raining.
"What is the matter with the day?" said Wimsey. "Is the world coming to an end?"
"No," said Parker, "it is the eclipse."
--Dorothy Sayers, Unnatural Death
25. From COLORS by Utada Hikari. Actual quote goes something like "ima no watashi wa anata no shiranai iro".
27.vade mecum: a book or other thing that one regularly carries about.
28. "It's very good jam," said the Queen.
"Well, I don't want any to-day at any rate."
"You couldn't have it if you did want it," the Queen said.
"The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday, but never jam to-day."
"It must come sometimes to 'jam to-day'," objected Alice.
"No, it can't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know."
-- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
29. Read The F(lipping) Manual
30. Resume
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
-- Dorothy Parker
1 November 2006. the heart asks pleasure first
2 November 2006. animal presence
3 November 2006. my pillow won't tell me where he has gone
4 November 2006. un-trodden ways
5 November 2006. white in the moon the long road lies
6 November 2006. come with me, under my coat
7 November 2006. sashimukau kokoro / the heart facing mine
8 November 2006. the hardcore and the gentle
9 November 2006. scattered pearls
10 November 2006. who rode in defence of your queendom
11 November 2006. wind-time, wolf-time
12 November 2006. little anodynes that deaden suffering
13 November 2006. could you endure such pain at any hand but hers?
14 November 2006. thieves in the temple
15 November 2006. old maid in the garret
16 November 2006. he wishes for the cloths of heaven
17 November 2006. I do not bite my thumb at you, sir
18 November 2006. bergamot and vetiver
19 November 2006. god's lioness
20 November 2006. the village awaits the new moon
21 November 2006. yumeji ni wa / on the path of dreams
22 November 2006. softness, compliance, forgiveness, grace [WIP; Prince of Tennis, girl!OT5]
23 November 2006. o love, be fed with apples while you may
24 November 2006. I bear your colours everywhere
25 November 2006. electric blue
26 November 2006. a thinking woman sleeps with monsters
27 November 2006. why should I leave you, to wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night?
29 November 2006. the heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking
30 November 2006. and the little ones chewed on the bones
1 December 2006. Happiness/ I want happiness
6 December 2006. Sweety/ (If it’s a day like today, we’ll likely meet)
7 December 2006. (You Drive Me) Crazy/ I just can’t sleep
9 December 2006. U/ (I’ll give you the ring hidden in the heart of the red rose)
11 December 2006. I Get a Kick Out of You/ I’m sure that if I took even one sniff, that would bore me terrifically too
12 December 2006. Space Age Love Song/ For a little while
13 December 2006. Paris/ (I threw away my wings)
14 December 2006. Elevator Love Letter/ It’s a nuclear show and the stars are gone
15 December 2006. I’d Rather Dance With You/ The only film I saw I didn’t like it at all
16 December 2006. Waterloo/ I feel like I win when I lose
17 December 2006. Cool/ Now you call me by my new last name
18 December 2006. In My Life/ There are places I remember
19 December 2006. I Want to Break Free/ It’s strange, but it’s true
20 December 2006. Know Your Chicken/ He said, “2 for 1 but 3 for 2.”
21 December 2006. Remind Me/ Where love that traveled far had found me
23 December 2006. Fantaisie Sign/ C'est la seule fantaisie ici pour toujours (It is the only fantasy here forever)
24 December 2006. Married With Children/ Your music is shaite, it keeps me up all night
25 December 2006. Nice Work if You Can Get It/ And if you can get it, won’t you tell me how
26 December 2006. Not My Slave/ You’re missing the point, you’re not my little pet [WIP; Prince of Tennis, Purgatory]
27 December 2006. Desafinado/ Like the bossanova, love should swing
28 December 2006. Being Boring/ I never dreamt that I would get to be the creature that I always meant to be
29 December 2006. Burnt out car/ A change of hair colour, Clairol Baby Blond
30 December 2006. Isobel/ In a forest pitch dark, glowed the tiniest spark
COMPLETED: 67/365 (18.35%)
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