"Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to ensure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to ensure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen."
"The Possibly Proper Death Litany"
Creatures of Light and Darkness
Roger Zelazny
Percute me, et eversione tenus, percute! Inwendig ben ik hard en koud, daar is in mij geen goed noch vier, doch slaat mij't lot, zoo menigvoud spatten de gensters glinds en hier.
~~M.C. Escher
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I'll listen to just about anything except RAP;
currently playing in my cage are Dream Theater,
Liquid Tension Experiment, John Petrucci, Metallica,
Dave Matthews, Blues Traveller, Godsmack, Staind,
The Police, Disturbed, Sevendust, Shadows Fall,
Kansas, Three Days Grace, Shinedown, Rush, Slipknot, Dragonforce, Incubus, Mudvayne, Primus, and
Weird Al Yankovic,
depending on how the day is going.
..For directors: Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, Mel Gibson, Mel Brooks and Quentin Tarantino; in general: Monty Python's Flying Circus, Johnny Depp, Arnold Schwarzenegger, William Goldman scripts, action, SF, Star Trek, James Horner scores, basically anything but sappy chick-flicks
..I watch no television.
Your IQ is "Off The Scale"
Your Logical Intelligence is legendary on Vulcan
Your Verbal Intelligence outstrips Isaac Asimov
Your Mathematical Intelligence is the envy of Stephen
Hawking
Your overall rating is "Omnipotent"
A Quick and Dirty
IQ Test
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'Twas brillig, and the slythy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the JubJub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the maxnome foe he sought-
So rested he by the Tumtum tree;
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Calloo! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slythy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Jabberwocky"~~Lewis Carroll
I'll read anything except sappy romances;
my favourite authors are Roger Zelazny
(Requiescat in pace), Stephen King,
Neil Gaiman, Anne McCaffrey, Carl Hiaasen,
Dave Barry, Gary Larson, Gilbert Shelton,
Isaac Asimov, Arthur Conan Doyle and
William Goldman.
Not to mention (oh wait, I'm mentioning it)
a vast collection of Arthurian literature
(Arthurus Rex Quondam Rexque Futurus),
Celtic literature,folklore and mythology
in general, and anything to do with
manned exploration of space.
ERIC MASON: Fight with honour,
and come back a free person!