Below are the 15 most recent journal entries recorded in erich_sonndheim's LiveJournal:

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
7:35 pm	When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. --Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame Current Mood: thoughtful (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 4th, 2007
11:46 pm	An unclassified memo Many of my entries and 'fiver memos' have been classified. Apparently someone has let some footage and information leak on something called 'youtube'. 1. First kiss? Are they asking when? With who? Where? A specific body part? I could fill pages. 2. Underwater swimming or skydiving? Neither, thrills are gained other ways. 3. Careful as you cross the street or never look both ways? I don't cross streets. 4. Ketchup: a vegetable? Who put this on the memo?? What relevance does this have? Typo noted 5. Underwear - optional? Heh, let me show you some pictures...or, why don't you come a little closer and find out? Current Mood: irate (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
12:03 am	An excerpt from "Gerontion" by T.S. Eliot After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, Guides us by vanities. Think now She gives when our attention is distracted And what she gives, gives with such supple confusions That the giving famishes the craving. Gives too late What's not believed in, or if still believed, In memory only, reconsidered passion. Gives too soon Into weak hands, what's thought can be dispensed with Till the refusal propagates a fear. Think Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree. The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. Think at last We have not reached conclusion, when I Stiffen in a rented house. Think at last I have not made this show purposelessly And it is not by any concitation Of the backward devils. I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use it for your closer contact? These with a thousand small deliberations Protract the profit of their chilled delirium, Excite the membrane, when the sense has cooled, With pungent sauces, multiply variety In a wilderness of mirrors. What will the spider do... Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
11:59 pm	Delayed memo Another day, another memo...someone at Prague must find these 'Friday Fivers' amusing. 1. Where were you last night? Watching you. 2. Did you speak with anyone? Not verbally. 3. What were you wearing? The real question is, what wasn't I wearing? 4. What did you drink or eat? I had a pint of fear with a bite of anguish. Utterly delicious. 5. Can anyone verify your whereabouts from midnight to 5am? Not anymore. Current Mood: cynical (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 19th, 2006
12:13 am	“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.” - Jean Paul Richter Current Mood: indifferent (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
10:02 pm	Serpentine Poetry I have encountered a poem by Theodore Roethke that has stirred my interest: ( Snake ) The aforementioned poem led to a structural imitation: ( Snake in the Grass ) And then, to a little something with a similar theme: ( The Old Snake's Desire ) Current Mood: poetic (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 13th, 2006
10:25 pm	A Hawaiian Proverb Ka manu ka'upu halo 'alo o ka moana. Current Mood: contemplative (Comment on this)
Friday, June 30th, 2006
8:27 pm	Another Friday Fiver Memo 1. How many foreign countries have you visited?  So sorry, but that is classified. 2. What do you always take with you on vacation?  I always take a camera. 3. Name something you've lost recently:  I've lost a student recently. 4. Do you prefer action packed vacations or relaxing ones?  Both, after all one must rest after action. 5. Other people's vacation photographs: do you really want to see them?  Why bother?  I already have copies. Current Mood: cynical (Comment on this)
8:24 pm	When the infirmities of my health deem it necessary to inflict me with pain…it is a rather bothersome occurrence. I cannot abide navigation in a fog of sickness, it only steers a course to weakness. I am not weak. I do not like being weak. If I am to be weak, it is to be on my terms wherein I have power. Dear sweet weakness if you are going to inflict me you better be powerful or you are not a worthy adversary. Don’t you see? When I finally defeat you, drive you back into your pathetic hovel, that will serve as the proof of my dominance. Until that day, you are not worth my time. Current Mood: annoyed (Comment on this)
Saturday, June 24th, 2006
12:12 am	'Friday Fiver' memo response 1. What was the last new song you discovered? ‘O Fortuna’. 2. What was the last new dish you tasted? Keilbasa. 3. Where was the last place you visited for the first time? Confidential. 4. Who was the last new person you met? Some telepath. 5. What was the last new toy you played with? Heh…I don’t remember his name-- Oh wait, were you referring to an actual object? My apologies. I have acquired a new riding crop. It is more an implement than a toy, but I suppose it can be called thus. Current Mood: annoyed (Comment on this)
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
7:29 pm	A buzzing thought soon to be silenced... Is the fly trapped in domesticity better than the fly trapped in the spider’s web? Current Mood: thoughtful (Comment on this)
Saturday, June 17th, 2006
11:07 pm	Meditation on the blonde haired puppet He became conscious of the dark rhythm of existence as a nerve-twisting, insistent thing that tugged at him like a marionette’s strings, trying to drag him back to some pattern from which he had departed. -Page 24, The Sinful Ones, Fritz Leiber The puppet master sculpts his creation, smoothing away resistance to his careful caresses. When the puppet refuses his master’s sustaining hand it severs the strings and joltingly enters another stage. Etheric threads of the puppet master’s original strings do not break and ever so often he’ll give them a pluck, just to watch his puppet jump. Current Mood: creative (Comment on this)
Friday, June 9th, 2006
1:44 pm	A....meme? It appears I have been sent a 'meme' by Prague, which looks like a survey. Apparently I must reply to the inquiries with short, simple answers (intriguing idea because it leaves room for the grey area and adds an aura of mystery). Taken a picture naked? Yes. Made out with a member of the same sex? Yes. Danced in front of your mirror? What do you mean by...dance? Told a lie? Yes....heh. Gotten in a car with people you just met? Yes. Been in a fist fight? Yes. Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back? Yes. Been arrested? perhaps *no records* Left your house without telling your parents? Yes. Ditched school to do something more fun? Yes....*chortle* 'fun' Slept in a bed with a member of the same sex? Yes. Seen someone die? Yes, and much more. Kissed a picture? Yes, and again much more. Slept in until 3? am or pm? Laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by? Yes...while 'doing' something else Played dress up? none of your damn business Fallen asleep at work/school? Yes. Felt an earthquake? Yes. Touched a snake? Yes. =_= Ran a red light? Yes. Had detention? once...then never again...heh Been in a car accident? it wasn't an accident Pole danced? all depends what you mean by this... Been lost? I always find my way. Sang karaoke? ...No... Done something you told yourself you wouldn't? Yes. Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? No. Caught a snowflake on your tongue? Yes. Kissed in the rain? Yes. Sang in the shower? I've done more than sing Got your tongue stuck to a pole? No. *chortle* Ever gone to school partially naked? define 'partially' Sat on a roof top? Yes. Played chicken? Yes. Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on? No. Been told you're hot by a complete stranger? Yes, not that I persuaded them or anything Broken a bone? ...Yes... Mooned/flashed someone? Yes. Forgotten someone's name? No, I remember. Slept naked? Yes. Blacked out from drinking? perhaps Played a prank on someone? Yes. Felt like killing someone? Yes, everyday. Made a parent cry? Yes. Cried over someone? ... Had sex more than 5 times in one day? Yes. Had/Have a dog? HELL NO Been in a band? No Drank 25 sodas in a day? No. Shot a gun? Yes Current Mood: contemplative (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 5th, 2006
5:35 pm	Blades of grass sever delusions as meadow-laden eyes leak dew through a sieve of ignorance. Quivering droplets exhale in the bitter breeze, ghostly remnants of life-sustaining essence. Current Mood: thoughtful (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 1st, 2006
5:11 pm	The beginning... It is a curious thing to be 'blogging' as the youth call it, but alas when Prague commands higher forms of surveillance one obeys. My ruminations will be such that caress the inner folds of the mind. Will a lesson be included? Perhaps. I shall have to get used to the keyboard. I do prefer pen and ink for scribing in my journal. I can hear you, you already have a journal? Of course I do. The tenants of my history will not be lost with my passing, as my brain shuts down, leaving my soul to drift. Men such as myself linger. ... The clock chimes. There are newcomers to inspect on the teaching staff. I shall give them the once over and then continue on my way...hmm, did I leave those students in the Pit or did I take them out? Oh well, I'll find out later. Current Mood: apathetic (5 Comments |Comment on this)