diff --git a/snippets.md b/snippets.md index bc10cd4..43d85c1 100644 --- a/snippets.md +++ b/snippets.md @@ -1980,3 +1980,50 @@ Flowers --- I hate RSA.ie, I absolutely abhor Ireland's Road Safety Authority. + +--- + +I don't believe in omens or fear +Forebodings. I flee from neither slander +Nor from poison. Death does not exist. +Everyone's immortal. Everything is too. +No point in fearing death at seventeen, +Or seventy. There's only here and now, and light; +Neither death, nor darkness, exists. +We're all already on the seashore; +I'm one of those who'll be hauling in the nets +When a shoal of immortality swims by. + +If you live in a house - the house will not fall. +I'll summon any of the centuries, +Then enter one and build a house in it. +That's why your children and your wives +Sit with me at one table, - +The same for ancestor and grandson: +The future is being accomplished now, +If I raise my hand a little, +All five beams of light will stay with you. +Each day I used my collar bones +For shoring up the past, as though with timber, +I measured time with geodetic chains +And marched across it, as though it were the Urals. + +I tailored the age to fit me. +We walked to the south, raising dust above the steppe; +The tall weeds fumed; the grasshopper danced, +Touching its antenna to the horse-shoes - and it prophesied, +Threatening me with destruction, like a monk. +I strapped my fate to the saddle; +And even now, in these coming times, +I stand up in the stirrups like a child. + +I'm satisfied with deathlessness, +For my blood to flow from age to age. +Yet for a corner whose warmth I could rely on +I'd willingly have given all my life, +Whenever her flying needle +Tugged me, like a thread, around the globe. + +- Life, Life by Arseny Tarkovsky + +[John Haughm - 042911](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiu4ZmMkmXE)