#maeterlinck

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HERE and GONE

It was mid-afternoon and I was at the bookstore-cafe in town, slow-sipping a strong macchiato. Stepping away from a noisy, enthusiastic group convening around a table, I drifted down to the travel section, where a book titled, ‘Edgeland, A Slow Walk West’ caught my eye. In the book, author Sasha Swire follows part of the South West Coast Path, which – surprise! – is located on England’s southwest…

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V. VI Maeterlinck // Armored Core 6

[elfcow]

Yeah why the fuck is the captain of Arquebus a lower rank than Little Ziyi. I love Little Ziyi and she deserves the world but she's an anime protagonist piloting her first scrap bucket tank and Maeterlinck is like an elite bad guy captain antagonist that can't be competed with until season 3.

It took me an hour or 2 of high stakes dog-fighting to defeat Maeterlinck and I did it by the skin of my teeth. Against Ziyi I lazily flew in circles around her until I broke her stance with my claws and execution-headshot her mech with a mag-lev rifle point blank. It took 45 seconds.

... Is Ziyi after Maeterlinck as a breather fight? We'd do that during endurance sparring tests. Give someone who was testing someone who was younger/smaller/weaker/gentler as a breather fight in between killers.

It never felt good to know you were considered a breather fight.

Poor Ziyi.

[elfcow]

I BEAT HER WITH 201 HP LEFT

THAT'S BASICALLY 1 HP IN AC TERMS

Fuck yes. You don't need to change your core build to win. You don't need to be try-hards like those Arquebus types. You just need to put on Assault Armor and go crazy go stupid. Which is what I was gonna do anyways.

[ameretat]

Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble

It would seem that women are more largely swayed by destiny than ourselves. They submit to its decrees with far more simplicity; nor is there sincerity in the resistance they offer. They are still nearer to God, and yield themselves with less reserve to the pure workings of the mystery. And therefore is it, doubtless, that all the incidents in our life in which they take part seem to bring us nearer to what might almost be the very fountain-head of destiny. It is above all when by their side that moments come, unexpectedly, when a ‘clear presentiment’ flashes across us, a presentiment of a life that does not always seem parallel to the life we know of. They lead us close to the gates of our being. May it not be during one of those profound moments, when his head is pillowed on a woman’s breast, that the hero learns to know the strength and steadfastness of his star ? And indeed will any true sentiment of the future ever come to the man who has not had his resting-place in a woman’s heart ?

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(via Pelléas et Mélisande (DNO 2019) - YouTube)

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「青い鳥」岩河智子2009 原作：メーテルリンク 台本：井上征剛 作曲：岩河智子 演出：中津邦仁

[ameretat]

Croyez-vous que vous prendrez la peine, si vous devenez vraiment pur, de soustraire au regard des anges assemblés les petits mobiles de vos grandes actions ? Et pourtant n'y a-t-il pas en nous plus d'une chose qui peut faillir aux yeux des dieux assis sur la montagne ? Il est sûre qu'il y en a, et notre âme n'ignore pas qu'elle aura des comptes à rendre. Elle vit, sans rien dire, sous la main d'un grand juge dont nous ne parvenons pas à saisir les sentences. Mais quelles seront ces comptes ? Où trouver la morale qui le dise ? Y a-t-il une morale mystérieuse qui règne en des régions plus lointaines que celles de nos pensées; et un astre central que nous ne voyons pas et dont nos plus secrets désirs ne sont que les planètes impuissantes ?

Maurice Maeterlinck, Le trésor des humbles