Poem: Dirge Without Music

Found this last line via soeursansmerci and google found the rest....

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains,--but the best is lost.
The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love, --
They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave,
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

That last line is applicable to so much in this life....

Coupling Season 2

Sally: "I could never be friends with a man I've had sex with. I'd have to kill him."
Jane: "Oh, that's what happened. I thought they all just stopped calling."

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Susan: "He's a man. It's not just a hand, it's a whole relationship."

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Sally: "Men can't be allowed solo access to their erections. They're not like us. They only have so many gos in a day."

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Sally: "Permanently ready Patrick!"

For MimisGrotto

From the Wall Street Journal:

Disney Erases Hand-Drawn Animation
By JOHN CANEMAKER
August 9, 2005; Page D8

In the 1960s, Walt Disney joked that one day he'd replace his elite corps of animators, known as the "Nine Old Men," and their slow, expensive way of making hand-drawn movies, with Audio-Animatronic figures.

At the end of last month, Walt's joke came true. The studio bearing his name announced that, due to a "changing creative climate and economic environment," it will be shutting DisneyToon Studios Australia next year. The studio, which turned out sequels (such as "Tarzan II," "The Lion King II" and "Bambi II") was the company's last remaining facility creating hand-drawn (or 2-D) traditional animation. To compete in the 3-D computer-generated imagery (or CGI) arena, the house that a hand-drawn mouse built will become a pixels, rather than a paper-and-pencils, place. ( Read more... )