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#1 User is offline   Salt-Man Z 

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Posted 02 November 2022 - 11:03 PM

I was doing the NY Times Spelling Bee yesterday, when the word "moonbell" caught my eye. It got the creative juices flowing, and 15 minutes or so later I had written this:

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MOONBELLS

Bells of paper, gently fold them
Hang them high and out of sight
Shades and shadows come behold them
In the glow of full moon's light
If they jingle, leave them be
Better that you hear than see

"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
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Posted 03 November 2022 - 02:37 AM

I like it!
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Posted 03 November 2022 - 09:04 PM

Thanks!
"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
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Posted 04 November 2022 - 09:01 AM

But what does it mean?!

View Postworrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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Posted 04 November 2022 - 09:23 AM

Yeah it's pretty but a bit ominous. What happens if I do see them?
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Posted 04 November 2022 - 10:42 AM

Someone will get arrested for indecent exposure.
Yesterday, upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. Oh, how I wish he'd go away.
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Posted 04 November 2022 - 12:18 PM

No you're thinking of moon balls.
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Posted 04 November 2022 - 09:39 PM

View PostTiste Simeon, on 04 November 2022 - 09:23 AM, said:

Yeah it's pretty but a bit ominous.

That's exactly what I was going for. :)
"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
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