Vox Hunt: Fortunate (or not)
Show us a fortune from a fortune cookie.
Submitted by AdamB.
Another way to procrastinate, yay!!
And apologies to my Brothers Miao for a non-Brotherly and non-harmonious post.
At first it wasn't too bad.
<--------This happened ages ago.
A little harsh, but I'll live.---->
*sniffs, dabs tears with blue blankie*
<---- At least I'm not ugly on the outside.
Oh, I see. Not even superficially outstanding...---->
<----- Truly the most damaging at this point in the semester.
What's this, a glimpse of hope?--->
If so, I'm happy to be foolish.
I'll feed the other fortunes to
Tantroll and keep this one.
If so, I'm happy to be foolish.
I'll feed the other fortunes to
Tantroll and keep this one.
When fortune deserts me (most of the time), I think of the lovely songs in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. For a taste of the original medieval music, try out the Clemencic Consort's orignal Carmina Burana.
Here are the lyrics to my favorite song, "O Fortuna".
Check out this website for the Latin/German full text and English translations.
O Fortune,
like the moon
you are changeable,
ever waxing
and waning;
hateful life
first oppresses
and then soothes
as fancy takes it;
poverty
and power
it melts them like ice.
Fate - monstrous
and empty,
you whirling wheel,
you are malevolent,
well-being is vain
and always fades to nothing,
shadowed
and veiled
you plague me too;
now through the game
I bring my bare back
to your villainy.Fate is against me
in health
and virtue,
driven on
and weighted down,
always enslaved.
So at this hour
without delay
pluck the vibrating strings;
since Fate
strikes down the string man,
everyone weep with me!
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Comments
"an evil letter or message is on its way to you" (i hope it's from you!)
"there is a false and insincere friendship between you and another" (you be 'another', qin ai de?)
"do not reach for your money purse in public" (you hired someone to try to steal my magical kitsune wealth, didn't you?)
i wanted one more and it gave me the money one again. but your attempts to threaten me and wear down my psychological defenses just won't work. foxes have to be caught and kept if one wants to monopolise their wealth. they simply cannot be robbed. the magic prevents it.
and 亲爱的foxy, I already caught you a long time ago, so I have my own trained talking foxy to entertain me from afar. *hugs* though i haven't gotten any $$$ from you yet... hmmm...
Well, I am done taking tests so these fortune cookies can eat ME! :D