My Voice

(thing) by s_alanet Sun Dec 17 2000 at 4:07:58
Well, I hear it all the time, so it's hard to describe, but here goes... It tends to be on the deeper side of things, but that varies, depending on many aspects. Sometimes it gets fairly deep, and other times it isn't, tending more towards... hmm... tenor, I guess. Dad's a baritone, and I tend to follow in his footsteps. When I'm speaking, which I like to do - speaking in the sense of being in front of a group and doing it - I speak very clearly, but I'm not always so clear when speaking person to person... A minor imperfection, which I'm working on. Oh well. I can't say anything about my accent, since I don't hear it. It's not southern, it's not drawly, it's not clipped, at least, I don't think so. I do say y'all from time to time, but that's because I like to use the second person plural. I derive enjoyment from using slang in my best High English. "Yo, sup?" or "I'm down with that." becomes a source of mirth when I say it, because I'm the kind of guy who can't say it right, at all, and doesn't even try. :)

Other times, I tend to speak in what is variously called "deutschlish", "anglodeutsch", or "germish". That's partially with some of my friends, because we all know german, and we all have limited vocabularies, so we can say things like "Ich muss mein Nase blow-en" or "Wir sollen hum-en". And partially it's because I like to use strange words and/or word orders.

(thing) by KissThis Sun Apr 06 2003 at 5:41:31
My Voice

Within this restless, hurried, modern world
  We took our hearts' full pleasure--You and I,
And now the white sails of our ship are furled,
  And spent the lading of our argosy.

Wherefore my cheeks before their time are wan,
  For very weeping is my gladness fled,
Sorrow hath paled my lip's vermilion,
  And Ruin draws the curtains of my bed.

But all this crowded life has been to thee
  No more than lyre, or lute, or subtle spell
Of viols, or the music of the sea
  That sleeps, a mimic echo, in the shell.


-Oscar Wilde, (1854-1900)
Poem from The Fourth Movement, 1881

from Project Gutenberg (public domain)


Other works from The Fourth Movement:

Impression De Voyage
At Verona
Apologia
Quia Multum Amavi
Silentium Amoris
Her Voice
Taedium Vitae
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