[Oracle] Chapter Nine: Fate [Neji, Hinata, lots of other people]

...in his marrow. He waits, a count of two, three, four, but neither anger nor terror floods his thoughts. Only a memory of pain and a woman’s gray eyes dart by, insubstantial in their briefness. Hiashi finishes with his words, and Neji steps forward, settling into the familiar stance a final time: legs shoulder width apart, one forward, one back; hands held palm outward; forearms parallel to the ...

Analyzing it

...read a short devotional that is emailed to me almost daily that in summary basically said, you've been given this one life. A gift of your time is precious, as it is unrenewable like money or things. And somehow, the briefness of the time we have to make any kind of impact on our world really hit me. It's one of those things you can read and "know" in your head, but to come to realize it is a deep...

Eating Endow Have power to Relieve Through Effectual Duration Superintendence

...originality to bring into being them attractive. On the contrary originality by reathusn of originality's purpose does not total to so abundant in advertising. It is next to the first to genuineness, briefness and clearness. Thus let's utter you lack to exhibit that lovely bill or pamphlet. Your point of concentration should not single exist the scheme on the contrary the satisfied as spring. You...

Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal. - Elizabeth Aston

I wish I had a good April Fool's joke for you

... adventure where dragons take center stage. Now, obviously, you wouldn't praise your own writing the way marketing copy might praise the writer's writing. But the point is the same: your cover letter or query is marketing copy. You are marketing your writing to an editor or agent. So briefness and the big concepts are what matter here. It gives the editor the hook and doesn't ramble on.

Long time no post.

... read. The Old Man and the Sea is 100 pages of some guy catching a fish. Oh, wait, I forgot: A really big fish. Is there some subtext about man's struggle with his own impotency and the briefness of human life? His former, youthful self? Does the Old Man himself represent Jesus? Because if that's the "advanced" side of things, then quite frankly I don't know what everyone's going on about. So, ...

My Name is someone and anyone

... was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.' 'At home, his mother was weeping because she had not estimated the imbalance between the finality of good-bye and the briefness of the last moment.' 'He had anticipated this and had tried to indicate to her long before how she must look at love; it was tapestry and art; the sorrow of it, the loss of it, ...

Reality sux

Sometimes you can only handle so much reality. I just get so sick of it. Sick sick sick. I just want to escape into some fantasy realm for a bit. Of course, that can never happen. Not the escape, but the briefness. So it's only a longing.                             Sometimes...

...to idealize her, no one wins from idol-worshipping, and I've learned that time and again. A popular concept in the arts is the idea that after birth we begin dying. Its used to drive home the briefness of life and drive people to live life to the fullest. Its effective because after death we won't get another chance to live this life as this person ever again. But, it misses even smaller losses, ...