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- From: jmm25@po.CWRU.Edu (Jessica M. Mcgeary)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
- Subject: Re: East of the Sun & West of the Moon
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 18:54:18 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- >Article #3192 (3193 is last):
- >Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
- >From: nparkhu1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Nao Parkhurst)
- >Subject: East of the Sun & West of the Moon
- >Date: Thu Nov 19 10:58:13 1992
- >
- >My first post on this subject doesn't seem to have made it out there, so
- >let's try again:
- >
- >East of the Sun & West of the Moon is an old Scandinavian (I think) fairy
- >tale. I have a book of Fairy Tales illustrated by Kay Nielsen which
- >includes it, and goes by the same title. Tolkein probably used the name as
- >one of his many references.
- >
- >Nao "Fingers crossed because am using new version of news program"
- >Parkhurst
- >nparkhu1@cc.swarthmore.edu
-
-
- In one of his bits of poetry, which I can't remember completely, Tolkien
- wrote:
-
- The Road goes ever on and on
- Down from the door where it began
- Now far ahead the Road has gone
- Let others follow it who can!
- (the line I don't remember)
- A time shall come at last when I
- Shall take the hidden paths that run
- West of the moon, East of the sun
-
- at least, I think that's how the directions were. The rest of the poem
- is accurate. I really liked that bit of poetry & was thinking of using it
- as some kind of yearbook quote when I graduated from high school... except
- that I've got QUITE some way to go before I let others go on and do things
- while I sit back and rest! B-)
- --
- "In place of your dream of an omniscient automaton, accept the fact that
- any knowledge man acquires is acquired by his own will and effort, and that
- _that_ is his distinction in the universe, _that_ is his nature, his
- morality, his glory." --Atlas Shrugged, p. 1058
-