Our Friend The Dog

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Came across this else where. Thought I'd bring it here for you people to enjoy too. F*cking brilliant!

 

 

"When the hour of sleep has struck for men, you have retired to your hole, surrounded by the darkness, the silence and the formidable solitude of the night. All is sleep in the master's house. You feel yourself very small and weak in the presence of the mystery. You know that the gloom is peopled with foes who hover and lie in wait. You suspect the trees, the passing wind and the moonbeams. You would like to hide, to suppress yourself by holding your breath. But still the watch must be kept; you must, at the least sound, issue from your retreat, face the invisible and bluntly disturb the imposing silence of the earth, at the risk of bringing down the whispering evil or crime upon yourself alone. Whoever the enemy be, even if he be man, that is to say, the very brother of the god whom it is your business to defend, you must attack him blindly, fly at his throat, fasten your perhaps sacrilegious teeth into human flesh, disregard the spell of a hand and voice similar to those of your master, never be silent, never attempt to escape, never allow yourself to be tempted or bribed and, lost in the night without help, prolong the heroic alarm to your last breath."

 

 

 

:clapping: F*cking Respect to Mr Maeterlinck!

[higgins 75]

Maeterlinck,come across that name before,what else has he written,Ditch?As for thinking

like a dog,he has it off to a tee,he wasn't a human/canine hybrid by any chance was he?

Higgins.

[higgins 75]

this Maeterlinck fella,can he do thoughts of terrier pups minds,mine seems to be still asleep

when someone walks in,takes him ten minutes to hear anything....when he's awake different story

you can't stop him or put him back to sleep,anyone walks in then he doesn't go for the throat

just fetches the football out of the garden for them to throw for him.......has this fella had pups

before?

Higgins.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Higgins; I honestly haven't got a clue about the guy, mate. I just found that presented, by one Dog lover for others to enjoy. So I nicked it and slapped it up here.

 

I'll look further into it as and when I have a moment though. Please do feel free to hit Google yeself though and bring us a synopsis of the man

[ferret15 0]

i too was intrigued to find out more about the mind behind the poem

 

so here is a link to some more of his poems

http://www.kellscraft.com/MaeterlinckPoems...emscontent.html

 

 

and a short Biography

 

 

Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), born in Ghent, Belgium, came from a well-to-do family. He was educated at a Jesuit college and read law, but a short practice as a lawyer in his home town convinced him that he was unfit for the profession. He was drawn toward literature during a stay in Paris, where he associated with a number of men of letters, in particular Villiers de l'Isle Adam, who greatly influenced him. Maeterlinck established himself in Paris in 1896 but later lived at Saint-Wandrille, an old Norman abbey that he had restored. He was predominantly a writer of lyrical dramas, but his first work was a collection of poems entitled Serres chaudes [Ardent Talons]. It appeared in 1889, the same year in which his first play, La Princesse Maleine, received enthusiastic praise from Octave Mirbeau, the literary critic of Le Figaro, and made him famous overnight. Lack of action, fatalism, mysticism, and the constant presence of death characterize the works of Maeterlinck's early period, such as L'Intruse (1890) [The Intruder], Les Aveugles (1890) [The Blind], and the love dramas Pelléas et Mélisande (1892), Alladine et Palomides (1894), and Aglavaine et Sélysette (1896). The shadow of death looms even larger in his later plays, Joyzelle (1903) and Marie Magdeleine (1909), Maeterlinck's version of a Paul Heyse play, while L'Oiseau bleu (1909) [The Blue Bird] is marked by a fairy-tale optimism. Le Bourgmestre de Stilemonde (1919) [The Burgomaster of Stilemonde] was written under the impact of the First World War.

 

Maeterlinck developed his strongly mystical ideas in a number of prose works, among them Le Trésor des Humbles (1896) [The Treasure of the Humble], La Sagesse et la destinée (1898) [Wisdom and Destiny], and Le Temple enseveli (1902) [The Buried Temple]. His most popular work was perhaps La Vie des abeilles (1900) [The Life of the Bee], which was followed by L'Intelligence des Fleurs (1907) [The Intelligence of the Flowers], studies of termites (1927), and of ants (1930). In later life, Maeterlinck became known chiefly for his philosophical essays. In 1932 he was given the title of Count of Belgium.

 

From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969

 

This autobiography/biography was first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.

 

 

 

Maurice Maeterlinck died on May 6, 1949.

 

 

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Edited August 26, 2007 by ferret15

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Excellent work, 15! Now we know. Cheers!