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"When he heard these great cries together
with their sounds and reverberations
in the clouds of heaven
and in the vault of the firmament
he looked up
whereupon turbulence
and darkness
and fury, and giddiness, and frenzy, and flight
unsteadiness, restlessness, and unquiet filled him ...
likewise disgust
with every place
in which he had used to be
and desire
for every place he had not reached ..."
-- Sweeney Astray, O'Keefe's 1913 translation of the ancient Irish epic poem ...
Well, I hadn't yet sprouted feathers and taken up residence in
the branches of a yew-tree like Mad Suibhne, the 7th century
pagan King of Ireland, but I had a couple of "mental health"
days at work I could take, so I did ... :laughing :ride
with their sounds and reverberations
in the clouds of heaven
and in the vault of the firmament
he looked up
whereupon turbulence
and darkness
and fury, and giddiness, and frenzy, and flight
unsteadiness, restlessness, and unquiet filled him ...
likewise disgust
with every place
in which he had used to be
and desire
for every place he had not reached ..."
-- Sweeney Astray, O'Keefe's 1913 translation of the ancient Irish epic poem ...
Well, I hadn't yet sprouted feathers and taken up residence in
the branches of a yew-tree like Mad Suibhne, the 7th century
pagan King of Ireland, but I had a couple of "mental health"
days at work I could take, so I did ... :laughing :ride
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