As Simple bank was being shut down, the sysadmin turning off servers etc replaced the site with the poem.
While dns forwarded to PNC or whatever, anyone hitting the server directly, a nerd like me for example, would get the poem as the dying breath from a service that had been loved by many.
there is a song by the band called Morpheus, written and sung by Mark Sandman
When he was younger, he was a cab driver and got stabbed in the chest and almost died. He knew his life would not be as long as it should have been and always made sure to live it to the fullest.
I think of this song a lot, this poem hits that same mark for me
I am also reminded of Tecumseh and his famous speech. I have found this to be so important that I hold it deep to my core. It is this same feeling
“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”
This is good medicine, thanks for sharing the poem
Thanks for sharing! I've always wanted more art and prose that reflect the feeling I get from this poem. I've always extended this poem to mean that no matter what you achieve, you will wish you had achieved more while on your deathbed. Therefore the only thing to be done to rage against the dying of the light is to unequivocally fight for what you believe in.
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"Rage against the dying of the light" is one of the all-time greatest lines.
Favorite use of this:
As Simple bank was being shut down, the sysadmin turning off servers etc replaced the site with the poem.
While dns forwarded to PNC or whatever, anyone hitting the server directly, a nerd like me for example, would get the poem as the dying breath from a service that had been loved by many.
there is a song by the band called Morpheus, written and sung by Mark Sandman
When he was younger, he was a cab driver and got stabbed in the chest and almost died. He knew his life would not be as long as it should have been and always made sure to live it to the fullest.
He died on stage performing
one of his songs
Do not go quietly unto your grave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP7AOzzSRx4
I think of this song a lot, this poem hits that same mark for me
I am also reminded of Tecumseh and his famous speech. I have found this to be so important that I hold it deep to my core. It is this same feeling
This is good medicine, thanks for sharing the poem
Thanks for sharing! I've always wanted more art and prose that reflect the feeling I get from this poem. I've always extended this poem to mean that no matter what you achieve, you will wish you had achieved more while on your deathbed. Therefore the only thing to be done to rage against the dying of the light is to unequivocally fight for what you believe in.
I found the excerpt in the movie, Interstellar particularly moving.
That's probably my favorite recitation, even though it's incomplete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2y85gW84U
I used to subscribe to this ideology. Now, I almost can’t wait.
Remember Man as you go by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so shall you be,
Prepare yourself to follow me
I remember we read this for a middleschool emglish class. Along with To Build a Fire, Leiningen Versus the Ants among other works.
To Build a Fire is fuckin HEAVY
that shit stays with me, and its been years since I last read it
That poor dog, I always feel so bad for it.
I only read it once and it always stuck with me. Jack London and snow, name a more iconic pair.
If you like short stories, Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson wrote absolute top shelf ones.
Yeah Call of the Wild is another great but if you have never read The Iron Heel
It's probably time to do so. It's what inspired Orwell to write 1984 and it is a fucking oracle in it's predicting the world today
Don't think I've read it since but i seem to remember the dog leaving for a camp he knew of, hopefully with better kinder people.
I mostly remember it was an example used for man vs nature and man vs himself if I remember right. Been 30+ years.