I Will Love You Forever (from the The Amber Spyglass)
By Philip Pullman
I will love you forever; whatever happens.
Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead,
I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again...
I'll be looking for you, every moment, every single moment.
And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart.
Every
atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and
dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of
light you see floating in sunbeams...
And when they use our
atoms to make new lives, they won't just be able to take one. They'll
have to take two, one of you and one of me.
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My day involved a huge amount of cleaning up things in the basement and taking stuff to the county dump and scheduling things with mitigation companies and insurance who are coming tomorrow and Friday to start drying us out and figuring out what our damage is going to cost. (The wall is going to have to be hacked open to replace the pipe, but since we have no intention of using the hose for the next three months, that can wait till after things are dry.)
My evening involved watching Voyager's "Infinite Regress" with three of my five regular Tuesday night friends, an episode I hadn't remembered but it was pretty good, then watching the series finale of His Dark Materials, which I didn't love -- I don't think Pullman is as progressive as he thinks he is, since God may be dead but love is still only admirable when it's chaste and sacrificial. Here are some of the Christmas decorations at my in-laws' home in Hanover:
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