I Myself am Heav’n and Hell

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:

 

“Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
In one self-place, for where we are is hell,
And where hell is, there must we ever be.”

—Mephistopheles (Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus)

 

Which reminds me of a famous Edward FitzGerald translation of this Omar Khayyám’s quatrain:

 

“I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return’d to me,
And answer’d: ‘I Myself am Heav’n and Hell”

 

…which, to add more ingredients to today’s literary soup, you may remember was used so effectively in The Picture of Dorian Gray.  

 

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Comments

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

kind of a dark day then.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Not particularly. I Myself am Heav'n as well as Hell. It's a toss up on any given day which will be which.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

at least the quote didn't pop out on your birthday. Awkward.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Indeed, that would have been a sign from the Universe. I know how much you believe in those things.

It will be interesting to see what does pop out on my birthday, though.

(Actually, now that I think about it, I do know two people whose birthday today is.)

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
- Lucy Larcom

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Which is a comforting fantasy if ever there was one.