diff --git a/snippets.md b/snippets.md index 43d85c1..5595c4a 100644 --- a/snippets.md +++ b/snippets.md @@ -1983,46 +1983,46 @@ 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. +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. +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 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. +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