tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1288735147937019806.post97480563292006588..comments2023-06-29T10:01:48.092+02:00Comments on Viewfinder : Vanity's follyMirinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14762774089637304953noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1288735147937019806.post-12566540698325971052012-04-12T19:18:08.135+02:002012-04-12T19:18:08.135+02:00Only if one has been truly loved, and this love wa...Only if one has been truly loved, and this love was recorded for posterity. Otherwise the summer is not eternal. It can even become the immediate <i>Winter of our Discontent..</i>Mirinonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1288735147937019806.post-91597922426526284302012-04-12T14:58:38.927+02:002012-04-12T14:58:38.927+02:00Yes the body as a fading mansion but our eternal s...Yes the body as a fading mansion but our eternal summer shall not fade and this gives life to usAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1288735147937019806.post-557290781846721122012-04-12T11:17:28.674+02:002012-04-12T11:17:28.674+02:00@Aonymous
The last two lines from Shakespeare'...@Aonymous<br />The last two lines from Shakespeare's sonnet 174.<br />But these three lines (from the same sonnet) are also very much in line with my allusion:<br /><br /><i>Why so large cost, having so short a lease,<br />Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?<br />Shall worms, inheritors of this excess,<br />Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end?</i>Mirinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14762774089637304953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1288735147937019806.post-35574416645928304672012-04-12T08:06:06.742+02:002012-04-12T08:06:06.742+02:00Fear no more if all come to dust, for Love's n...Fear no more if all come to dust, for Love's not Time's fool and Death once dead, there is no more dying then.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1288735147937019806.post-50680561241714176072012-04-04T19:26:08.473+02:002012-04-04T19:26:08.473+02:00If the basin had been mended maybe the story would...If the basin had been mended maybe the story wouldn't have ended, at least not so tragically. They might have floated off in it together like the Owl and the Pussycat, with 'some honey and plenty of money wrapped up in a five pound note'. <br />But maybe the Owl and the Pussycat were less vain, which is all part of life, I suppose.Mirinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14762774089637304953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1288735147937019806.post-39933868317282116882012-04-04T19:02:41.499+02:002012-04-04T19:02:41.499+02:00There was a King and he had three daughters,
And t...There was a King and he had three daughters,<br />And they all lived in a basin of water;<br />The basin bended,<br />My story's ended.<br />If the basin had been stronger<br />My story would have been longer.<br /><br />(an anonymous sister)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com