Comments on: Perfumed Bird At 110

By: flower

flower — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:43:13 +0000

Thanks for this! I can’t find the track online, so I’m just going to buy the album. Looking forward to listening.

I just noticed that your “[love] is stronger than death” coaxed me into a Christian revision of Solomon’s materialism. I drew the inspiration for the other revisions from a poem by a friend. In my friend’s poem, he, like Solomon, has “love is strong as death.”

The original line in the KJV: “Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.” (8:6)

By: orinoco womble

orinoco womble — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:41:36 +0000

I direct your attention to the version recorded by Steeleye Span on the album “Storm Force Ten”, from about 1978 or 79. I believe they called it “Awake, Awake Oh Northern Wind”.

By: flower

flower — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:53:50 +0000

Yes, orinoco womble, I adapted it from Canticles. I’d give you chapter and verse if I didn’t recommend that you read it through again.

By: orinoco womble

orinoco womble — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:25:58 +0000

Thanks, flower. I couldn’t remember the rest of it. It’s from the Canticles, I think, but I’m not sure of that, either.

By: flower

flower — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:57:57 +0000

Love is stronger than death, ardour fierce as the grave.

By: Chazz

Chazz — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:40:16 +0000

Death is the high cost of living. I agree that we would take people for granted if we had immortality. Or maybe that’s just me.

Love and death have a huge link, but I wouldn’t go so far as this. However, I could be proved wrong; look at Romeo and Juliet’s last kiss.

By: Feathertop Complex

Feathertop Complex — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:02:38 +0000

Two people are willing to die for each other. Is it any wonder that the greatest tragedies are love stories?

By: Clint

Clint — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:51:50 +0000

Not a problem. I guess I was looking for some clarification myself.

By: orinoco womble

orinoco womble — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:01:43 +0000

I myself am not sure of the “official” version of existentialism, but “nothing means anything” is certainly the version my college friends claimed to subscribe to. Of course, everything is temporary in the learning process…so maybe their ideas changed over time. Mine certainly have, but their version of existentialism was exceedingly bleak.

By: Clint

Clint — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:47:07 +0000

This might be a chicken-or-the-egg sort of thing, but maybe death is the reason we love? People become attached to things when they believe they are impermanent. If people didn’t die, we’d take them for granted.