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nasal congestion waltz i cant get my hands to move rightnasal congestion waltz by ~beyond-the-pale
the joints are tired
tired of cranking out these monotonous rhymes and tones
worn down gears donwshifting creativity
till there's nothing left except water and flesh
and im going through these motions and im far behind my deadlines
but how bad is a deadline when your joints dont work?
and i cant rely on my broken hands to do the work for me
clogged veins and nostrils
plugged up with ice and disease
its been three whole hours and my joints still freeze
i cant write my name in cursive or piss it in the snow
theres a purity of purpose in there somewhere but it wont show
im too tired to listen
fog "Do you think we can make it?"fog by ~beyond-the-pale
I am posed with this question nearly every weekend.
The answer is always yes, even if the thought behind it is no.
I would never say no.
Saying something like that is a sure way to kill the moment, and there is always a moment going on whenever
those words are uttered.
But this particular time, the clear answer, indisputably, is no.
There is no way we can make it work.
I know this, and I'm sure Matt knows it too.
So I just stare at him for a few seconds. I look at my watch, and then up at the sky, and then back at his face.
If I didn't know, I would think there was genuine uncert
Sta.sh
shmouty 5000.1
A pale is an old name for a pointed stake driven into the ground to form part of a fence and—by obvious extension—to a barrier made of such stakes, a fence (our modern word paling is from the same source, as are pole and impale). This meaning has been around in English since the fourteenth century. By 1400 it had taken on various figurative senses, such as a defence, a safeguard, a barrier, an enclosure, or a limit beyond which it was not permissible to go.
In particular, it was used to describe various defended enclosures of territory inside other countries. For example, the English pale in France in the fourteenth century was the territory of Calais, the last English possession in that country. The best-known modern example is the Russian Pale, between 1791 up to the Revolution in 1917, which were specified provinces and districts within which Russian Jews were required to live. Another famous one is the Pale in Ireland, that part of the country over which England had direct jurisdiction—it varied from time to time, but was an area of several counties centred on Dublin. The first mention of the Irish Pale is in a document of 1446–7. Though there was an attempt later in the century to enclose the Pale by a bank and ditch (which was never completed), there never was a literal fence around it.
The expression beyond the pale, meaning outside the bounds of acceptable behaviour, came much later. The idea behind it was that civilisation stopped at the boundary of the pale and beyond lay those who were not under civilised control and whose behaviour therefore was not that of gentlemen. A classic example appears in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, dated 1837: “I look upon you, sir, as a man who has placed himself beyond the pale of society, by his most audacious, disgraceful, and abominable public conduct”. The earliest example I’ve found is from Sir Walter Scott in 1819.
It may be older than this, but it surely doesn’t date back to the period of the Irish Pale, or anywhere near. It is often said that it does come directly from that political enclosure, but the three-century gap renders that very doubtful indeed. The idea behind it is definitely the same, though.
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