1 September 2005

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 9:23 pm

<a href='http://www.ozyandmillie.org/2005/om20050901.html' target='_blank'>The Telltale Bell</a> Well, no, Poe wasn't too hot on bells . . .  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> The Bells THE BELLS, I. Hear the sledges with the bells-- Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In their icy air of night! While the stars, that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-- From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. II. Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden-notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon! Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the future! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-- To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells! III. Hear the loud alarum bells-- Brazen bells! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire Leaping higher, higher, higher, With a desperate desire, And a resolute endeavor Now--now to sit or never, By the side of the pale-faced moon. Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells-- Of the bells-- Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-- In the clamor and the clangor of the bells! IV. Hear the tolling of the bells-- Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people--ah, the people-- They that dwell up in the steeple. All alone, And who toiling, toiling, toiling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone-- They are neither man nor woman-- They are neither brute nor human-- They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A paean from the bells! And his merry bosom swells With the paean of the bells! And he dances, and he yells; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the paean of the bells-- Of the bells: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the throbbing of the bells-- Of the bells, bells, bells-- To the sobbing of the bells; Keeping time, time, time, As he knells, knells, knells, In a happy Runic rhyme, To the rolling of the bells-- Of the bells, bells, bells-- To the tolling of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-- To the moaning and the groaning of the bells. Edgar Allan Poe 1849.</td></tr></table>

Holyman83 · Postby **Holyman83** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 10:48 pm

THE BELL TOLLS FOR THY!!

Richard K Niner · Postby **Richard K Niner** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 11:16 pm

I don't think I've ever seen Millie's irises before... <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... unsure.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='unsure.gif' /> She's starting to creep me out...

IceDragon · Postby **IceDragon** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 11:20 pm

Some nice Poe references. You can never go wrong with Poe

TyVulpine · Postby **TyVulpine** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 11:45 pm

I think Millie was also ripping off "it's the beating of that hideous HEART", another of Poe's poems....

Mista_B · Postby **Mista_B** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 12:11 am

Let's just hope she doesn't try to silence that bell in her head with a clawhammer or something. <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' />

Catman · Postby **Catman** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 12:12 am

I can see a new avater <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /> . Hooray for the Poe reference!

Richard K Niner · Postby **Richard K Niner** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 12:24 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Catman @ Sep 1 2005, 08:12 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I can see a new avater <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /> .  </td></tr></table>  Not until Simon fixes the controls. <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' />

Bocaj Claw · Postby **Bocaj Claw** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 12:44 am

DO NOT ASK FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS! It tolls for Millie.

rogue-kun · Postby **rogue-kun** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 1:16 am

the Bell's control is an such an athema to Millie's style I fear an explosion if she ever touches the bell!

Blue Blur · Postby **Blue Blur** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 1:26 am

Say what? Boy, and I thought Millie liked school...

rogue-kun · Postby **rogue-kun** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 1:29 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Blue Blur @ Sep 2 2005, 01:26 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Say what? Boy, and I thought Millie liked school... </td></tr></table>  She Likes to learn, she dislike blind obedience, she likes to "flow"

NHJ BV · Postby **NHJ BV** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 8:32 am

I sense the need for the school therapist here <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

Tom Flapwell · Postby **Tom Flapwell** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 2:04 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Tailsthefox @ Sep 1 2005, 11:45 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I think Millie was also ripping off "it's the beating of that hideous HEART", another of Poe's poems....  </td></tr></table>  You're thinking of his short story "The Telltale Heart," for which this episode is spoofily named. The last line of that story goes, "It is the beating of his hideous heart!" That was my introduction to Poe, and I loved it.

Muninn · Postby **Muninn** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:42 pm

Nice literary reference.

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