Re: Sally's "summer, like a white sword, hangs over the land"

I LOVE "sleep, like a fog, blew over him."  Though I've
read Gilgamesh long years ago, I don't recall this line,
but it does have the same cadence as my "summer, like a
white sword, hangs over the land."  Same use of a simile,
same syntax...  the things you can pick up by osmosis from
literary English!

Sally

Steg Belsky wrote:
>
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:53:36 -0700 Sally Caves <scaves@...>
> writes:
> > > At 21:07 22.4.2000 -0400, Steg Belsky wrote:
> > > >Sally's "summer, like a white
> > > >sword, hangs over the land"
>
> > My question... what was Steg's remark in reference to?
> >
> > Sally
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> > SALLY CAVES
> > scaves@frontiernet.net
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> I was flipping through my copy of _Gilgamesh_ which i had read last
> semester for an English course, looking for good sig quotes, and one that
> i found was "sleep, like a fog, blew over him."  said by Utanapishtim
> about Gilgamesh.  It's also good for an instant-message program "away
> message" for if i ever go to sleep and leave my computer on :-) .
> So the first time i used it as a sig, i added something like "
> (hmm...does that remind anyone else of Sally's "summer, like a white
> sword, hangs over the land"?) " after it.
> Flipping through another book around the same time, i found another good
> sig quote...
>
> -Stephen (Steg)
>  "You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment
>   that you touch perfect speed.  And that isn't flying a thousand
>   miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light.
>   Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have
>   limits.  Perfect speed, my son, is being there."
>                     ~ _jonathan livingston seagull_
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