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glacier_kittyToday in English we talked about Edgar Allen Poe and watched a movie about him...I love Edgar! The movie had some lines from the poem Annabel Lee...I love that poem! We read The Raven and we may read The Fall of the House of Usher. I love his stories even though most of them are very dark...I read The Masque of the Read Death cause I was in sci fi studies class last year and I saw the title and I was obsessed with POTO so I just had to read it so the teacher let me. It was so much like POTO! I've also read The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendilum, A Descent into the Maelstrom, and probably others I can't remember...
I read yesterday that Luca played a solo in a Kamelot song! I must hear that song. And the 2006 winter Olympics are gonna be in Italy!!! Yay!!!
From The Once and Future King
"The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and a graceful horn of pearl. He stepped daintily over the heather, scarcely seeming to press it with his airy trot, and the wind made waves in his long mane, which had been freshly combed. The glorious thing about him was his eyes. There was a faint bluish furrow down each side of his nose, and this led up to the eye-sockets, and surrounded them in a pensive shade. The eyes, circled by this sad and beautiful darkness, were so sorrowful, lonely, gentle and nobly tragic, that they killed all other emotion except love
The unicorn went up to Meg the kitchenmaid, and bowed his head in front of her. He arched his neck beautifully to do this, and the pearl horn pointed to the ground at her feet, and he scratched in the heather with his silver hoof to make a salute. Meg had forgotten her tears. She made a royal guesture of acknowledgement, and held her hand out to the animal.
"Come, unicorn," she said. "Lay your head in my lap, if you like."
The unicorn made a whinny, and he pawed again with his hoof. Then, very carefully, he went down first on one knee and then on the other, till he was bowing in front of her. He looked up at her from this posistion, with his melting eyes, and at last laid his head upon her knee. He stroked his flat, white cheek against the smoothness of her dress, looking at her beseechingly. The whites of his eyes rolled with an upward flash. He settled his hind quarters coyly, and lay still, looking up. His eyes brimmed with trustfulness, and he lifted his near fore in a gesture of pawing. It was a movement in the air only, which said, "Now attend to me. Give me some love. Stroke my mane, will you please?
There was a choking noise from Agravaine in the ambush, and at once he was rushing toward the unicorn, with the sharp boar-spear in his hands. The other boys squatted upright on their heels, watching him.
Agravaine came to the unicorn, and began jabbing his spear into its quarters, into its slim belly, into its ribs. He squealed as he jabbed, and the unicorn looked to Meg in anguish. It leaped and moved suddenly, still looking at her reproachfully, and Meg took its horn in one hand. She seemed entranced, unable to help it. The unicorn did not seem able to move from the soft grip of her hand on its horn....
Gawaine came up, just as Agravaine's spear went in under the fifth rib. The unicorn shuddered. He trembled in all his body, and stretched his hind legs out behind. They went out almost straight, as if he were doing his greatest leap--and then quivered, trembling in the agony of death. All the time his eyes were fixed on Meg's eyes, and she still looked down at his....
The unicorn's legs stretched out horizontally behind him, and stopped trembling. His head dropped in Meg's lap. After a last kick they became rigid, and the blue lids rose half over the eye. The creature lay still."
*bawls* HOW DO YOU KILL A UNICORN LIKE THAT???
"A chain unbreakable, every link is allied to our mighty vow"--"Blood Bound," HammerFall
I read yesterday that Luca played a solo in a Kamelot song! I must hear that song. And the 2006 winter Olympics are gonna be in Italy!!! Yay!!!
From The Once and Future King
"The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and a graceful horn of pearl. He stepped daintily over the heather, scarcely seeming to press it with his airy trot, and the wind made waves in his long mane, which had been freshly combed. The glorious thing about him was his eyes. There was a faint bluish furrow down each side of his nose, and this led up to the eye-sockets, and surrounded them in a pensive shade. The eyes, circled by this sad and beautiful darkness, were so sorrowful, lonely, gentle and nobly tragic, that they killed all other emotion except love
The unicorn went up to Meg the kitchenmaid, and bowed his head in front of her. He arched his neck beautifully to do this, and the pearl horn pointed to the ground at her feet, and he scratched in the heather with his silver hoof to make a salute. Meg had forgotten her tears. She made a royal guesture of acknowledgement, and held her hand out to the animal.
"Come, unicorn," she said. "Lay your head in my lap, if you like."
The unicorn made a whinny, and he pawed again with his hoof. Then, very carefully, he went down first on one knee and then on the other, till he was bowing in front of her. He looked up at her from this posistion, with his melting eyes, and at last laid his head upon her knee. He stroked his flat, white cheek against the smoothness of her dress, looking at her beseechingly. The whites of his eyes rolled with an upward flash. He settled his hind quarters coyly, and lay still, looking up. His eyes brimmed with trustfulness, and he lifted his near fore in a gesture of pawing. It was a movement in the air only, which said, "Now attend to me. Give me some love. Stroke my mane, will you please?
There was a choking noise from Agravaine in the ambush, and at once he was rushing toward the unicorn, with the sharp boar-spear in his hands. The other boys squatted upright on their heels, watching him.
Agravaine came to the unicorn, and began jabbing his spear into its quarters, into its slim belly, into its ribs. He squealed as he jabbed, and the unicorn looked to Meg in anguish. It leaped and moved suddenly, still looking at her reproachfully, and Meg took its horn in one hand. She seemed entranced, unable to help it. The unicorn did not seem able to move from the soft grip of her hand on its horn....
Gawaine came up, just as Agravaine's spear went in under the fifth rib. The unicorn shuddered. He trembled in all his body, and stretched his hind legs out behind. They went out almost straight, as if he were doing his greatest leap--and then quivered, trembling in the agony of death. All the time his eyes were fixed on Meg's eyes, and she still looked down at his....
The unicorn's legs stretched out horizontally behind him, and stopped trembling. His head dropped in Meg's lap. After a last kick they became rigid, and the blue lids rose half over the eye. The creature lay still."
*bawls* HOW DO YOU KILL A UNICORN LIKE THAT???
"A chain unbreakable, every link is allied to our mighty vow"--"Blood Bound," HammerFall
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Date: 2005-09-30 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-30 04:18 pm (UTC)Yeah that was a sad part in the book :(
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Date: 2005-09-30 05:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-30 04:43 pm (UTC)That song is Descent of the Archangel, I believe. =)
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Date: 2005-09-30 05:14 pm (UTC)Ah that's it...have you heard it?
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Date: 2005-09-30 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-30 08:39 pm (UTC)