Time Marches On…
Dec01
on 12/01/2015
at 12:01 am
Chapter: Turkey Sauce, Jingle Joe, & Sog
Location: Cypress City, the apartment
Time waits for no man. As I look at this toon, it begs a quote from Ryan. He, being a writer and knower of all things literary, he should have had a witty quote at the end. Any suggestions? …. fill in the blank.
Well, it *is* exercise…
Yes, the minute YOU (people in general) stop marching… the end is getting closer.
“At least when my memory goes, I won’t remember it.”
Have you seen the latest Sherlock Holmes movie starring Ian McKellen? “Mr. Holmes” is the title… and it is a look at the frustrating loss of memory of a brilliant fictional person.
Gaze no more in the bitter glass
The demons, with their subtle guile,
Lift up before us when they pass,
Or only gaze a little while;
For there a fatal image grows
That the stormy night receives,
Roots half hidden under snows,
Broken boughs and blackened leaves.
For all things turn to barrenness
In the dim glass the demons hold,
The glass of outer weariness,
Made when God slept in times of old.
There, through the broken branches, go
The ravens of unresting thought;
Flying, crying, to and fro,
Cruel claw and hungry throat,
Or else they stand and sniff the wind,
And shake their ragged wings; alas!
Thy tender eyes grow all unkind:
Gaze no more in the bitter glass.
These wise words are from “The Two Trees” were penned by Yeats. Ryan would be wise to heed them. I framed a copy of this and put it by the bathroom mirror when my wife started complaining about what she saw there.
‘Tis beautiful… I love “The ravens of unresting thought”… what a brilliant line! Thank you for posting… and Ryan WOULD know this passage.
Loreena McKennitt has a *breathtaking* cover of that poem, it’s one of my favorites of hers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZeBGEwmPu4
Watch it, Randie, or he’ll clamp you with his dentures!
Ha ha! Ouch!
I think Hemingway would be appropriate at a time like this:
“Don’t ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee”
My personal favorite is one of my own:
“There’s only one thing worse than getting old, not getting old.”
Well said… if you aren’t getting old… it means you’re DEAD! Like James Dean or Marylyn Monroe.
I somewhat hate doing this to you, but that line is by John Donne[ Hemingway used part of it in a title.
Ah… you are right BB… and NOW I get the Island quote at the bottom!
I’m going to have to use this line on my husband next time he starts pointing out his signs of aging…lol
Yes, indeed. Remember… wrinkles are laugh lines and gray hairs are silver linings.
Time waits for no man.
No man is an island.
Therefore, time waits for an island.
Um… there are islands that time forgot… like that island with all the prehistoric monsters… oh, wait… um… that’s something else, I think. Never mind.
Take that One-Eye!
My contribution to the quotes:
This too shall pass.
It always does, don’t it?
I’ve had glasses since I was 2 and gray hairs since I was 16. I’m not going to know when I’m getting old!
That’s a fine place to be! One should never grow old… in mind and spirit.
Don’t forget about sitting on yer front porch. Ya damn kids!
Hmmm… R&R have a teensy-tiny back yard area where they can hear the neighbor’s d*m* dog bark… that counts, yah?
Dang! Randee knows where to deliver the finishing blow! That was a bit harsh. 🙂
Ha… it was a tongue and cheeky sort of blow…