About Me
" O Fortuna,
Velut Luna
Statu variabilis,
Semper crescis
Aut decrescis;
Vita detestabilis
Nunc obdurat
Et tunc curat
Ludo mentis aciem;
Egestatem,
Potestatem,
Dissolvit ut glaciem.Sors immanis
Et inanis,
Rota tu volubilis,
Status malus,
Vana salus
Semper dissolubilis;
Obumbrata
Et velata
Mihi quoque niteris;
Nunc per ludum
Dorsum nudum
Fero tui sceleris.Sors salutis
Et virtutis
Mihi nunc contraria;
Est affectus
Et defectus
Semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
Sine mora
Cordae pulsum tangite!
Quod per sortem
Sternit fortem,
Mecum omnes plangite! ".." O Fortune, like the moon of ever changing state, you are always waxing or waning; hateful life now is brutal, now pampers our feelings with its game; poverty, power, it melts them like ice.Fate, savage and empty, you are a turning wheel, your position is uncertain, your favour is idle and always likely to disappear; covered in shadows and veiled you bear upon me too; now my back is naked through the sport of your wickedness.The chance of prosperity and of virtue is not now mine; whether willing or not, a man is always liable for Fortune's service. At this hour without delay touch the strings! Because through luck she lays low the brave, all join with me in lamentation! "Dance Macabre... "Orchestra of the dead" - Woodcut by Michael Wolmegut, from Hartmann Schedel's "Liber Chrnicarum" - printed by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg, 1493Macabre representation of the Tree of Knowledge and Death -
Woodcut by Jost Amman, from Jacob Rueff's "De conceptu et generatione hominis" - printed by Peter Fabricus, Frankfurt, 1587.......................I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
