Omar Khayyam and I are like THIS! *crosses fingers*

[nobleplatypus]

Okay, so first off, some background:

While I'm rather apprehensive about how I'm going to die (painfully/drawn out=not cool), the idea of actually being dead has never perturbed me. This is probably largely due to the fact that I believe in ghosts and an afterlife of some sort, and am rather morbidly looking forward to haunting some shit up. I know, I know, I'm weird.

But my lack of fear of death intrigues people, and I wound up talking about it with shiremint a good deal. One of the things I pointed out, which amused her, is that loads of people have died and no one's come back to complain about it, so it can't possibly be all that bad. You really would think that if people had the power to return from the grave, and dying really, really, sucked, they'd bitch about it instead of just fretting over things that happened during their lives (which is what most ghosts seem to do) or pranking people.

Which brings me to the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. "It's a smutty book!" I looked it up online while at work because I wanted to find a mostly-memorized stanza and memorize it completely. I found it and wrote it down. Then I looked at the stanza right below it, and found this:

Strange, is it not? that of the myriad who
Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
Which to discover we must travel too.

How wild is that?! Omar Khayyam is my HOMEBOY! *dances*

Comments

[vanyaria.livejournal.com]

oh I feel the same way. I'm terrified of dying, but I'm looking forward to the afterlife, whichever form it takes (guess I'll find out when I get there)

[nobleplatypus]

I'm going to find myself a piano and figure out how to play it in the wee hours of the morning. ;) Muahahaha.

[mencc1701.livejournal.com]

I'm not afraid of death, really, myself, so long as I can manage a nice long life out of it. I don't believe in an afterlife, though, so if it turns out there is one, well hey - nice* surprise. ;)

* Hellfire and damnation excluded

[nobleplatypus]

Yeah... I'm unsure as to the whole Heaven/Hell thing. No one likes to think about the possibility of going to Hell, but you can't have one without the other. Heaven would kind of be a drag if Hitler was there, you know? But if there is a Hell, then there's a chance anyone might wind up there. Maybe God's a really strict old geezer and we're all gonna wind up down there for not sacrificing a Bull every Tuesday or something.

[alienagentsab.livejournal.com]

Hamlet, Sr. came back to complain about how he died ...

[nobleplatypus]

Yeah... but that was more along the lines of "Your uncle murdered me, just FYI" and not "Waah dying sucks!"

[metalkatt.livejournal.com]

GAH!

He's a what?
He's a what?
He's a MUSic man, and he sels clarinets to the kids in the town, with the big trombones and the rat-a-tat drums...


I'll get you for this.

[nobleplatypus]

HAHAHA YES! I was HOPING someone would get that reference!

Big brass bass, big brass bass!

[metalkatt.livejournal.com]

and the piccolo, the piccolo, with uniforms, too...

(grr)

[nobleplatypus]

*cackles*

[metalkatt.livejournal.com]

you're just mean.

and it DOESN'T help that I live in Iowa, and have been to River City Mason City before.

[archeok.livejournal.com]

You should listen to the song the Happy Phantom by Tori Amos. I think you'd get a kick out of it.


Also, remember that scary thing we watched over break with the ghosts who were angry and said something about "COME WE HIGH"? They seemed rather upset about death. Geeze, that was a scary drive home. I kept expecting ghosts to show up in the road or in the passenger seat saying "WE'VE COME HIGH....FOR YOU!!!" And then I'd die in a car crash in one of those fields out there and no one would know why....eeeee.

[nobleplatypus]

Hahaha, it was, "DARE WE... COME HIGH?" if I remember correctly. :P In which case... no, I don't dare. But I also remembered that it took me a long time to figure out what the hell he was saying... like he wasn't speaking English. He always anunciates things strangely when he's "channeling".

[archeok.livejournal.com]

That's right, Dare we come high...to tell you how we hate death and are jealous of the living. And we will SLASH you, or make you fall over in a small room.

But seriously, you should get that tori amos song.

[nobleplatypus]

They could just be pissed off that there's a medium and his invisible friend tromping around trying to interview them for a TV show.

Hehe, I'll look into it. ;)