![]() He looked at me like no one had ever looked at me before. Not saying a word, like we were caught in another place, alone together and silent. ![]() People would be talking around us, and we'd just stare. He made my chest flush every shade of scarlet. He had tae kwon do after I had aikido at school. We burned our faces into each others head, I think. The second time, our eyes caught and we just couldn't stop. The first time we looked at each other, we looked away. He slouched off to find a one night stand. Slowly, she turned around and looked at him. He fell where she had been dancing, where there was a sudden gap as the crowd had struggled with the guy. She was about to spin around and slap him, whoever it was, for being such an asshole and copping a feel when directly in front of her a rather large human was falling, heavily, as the thronging pit parted and was unable to hold him. Oblivious, she danced and was jostled, pushed, and suddenly grabbed from behind, two arms around her, crushing her and dragging her back. ![]() Her ponytail was so long it would get wrapped around moshers' necks and arms, but they were all her friends. She was flailing around aimlessly in the pit of a fishbone concert. 28-29Ģ - Seneca: Epistulae Morales, Liber IX, LXXVII. To be valued and treasured as something truly spectacular, but never to be underestimated.ġ - Dante: Purgatorio Canto VI, ll. This is indeed a line that strongly reinforces the theory that Vergil subscribed to the Stoic philosophy.īy all accounts, a terrible line which should not be read by the emotionally vulnerable. It is settled and fixed and led by great and eternal necessity: You will go where everyone else is going.' Stop hoping you will change the will of the gods by praying. 2 'Why do you weep? What do you want? You are wasting your time. rata et fixa sunt et magna atque aeterna necessitate ducuntur: eo ibis quo omnia eunt. desine fata deum flecti sperare precando. Perhaps most notably, this line was quoted by Seneca to reinforce his Stoic ideals: Dante, that famous Virgilian, makes a reference 1 to it in The Divine Comedy. It is hardly surprising, then, that it has been quoted so often. The d-f-d-f pattern in the first four words and the emphasis created by the metre, with 'desine' and 'precando' especially stressed, create an astonishingly strong line which remains in the mind long after the memories of the rest of the book have faded. The line itself is a Virgilian masterwork. This line is the climax of the Sibyl's rebuke, and though it is followed by a consolation for the helmsman that he will be remembered forever, the impact of this line is so great that it almost completely swallows the subsequent ones. Palinurus has just asked Aeneas to take him with him on his journey across the Styx to the rest of the underworld, thus violating the divine command that the unburied should never cross the river. These terrible words are spoken by the Sibyl, the priestess of Apollo who leads Aeneas down to the underworld, to Palinurus, the hapless helmsman who was taken by Neptune as an offering in return for the Trojan's safe passage to Italy. Line 376 of Aeneid - Book Six, this is probably the best line in the best book of Vergil's epic. 'Stop hoping you will change the will of the gods by praying'
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