31_days | September Themes

September Themes

1 ~ don't think your life didn't matter

2 ~ in ten years the world will have changed

3 ~ the sleep of reason produces monsters

4 ~ I wished for eyes that could see into a man's heart.

5 ~ then, tell me what you'll do to me

6 ~ the cold only kills

7 ~ a man is sufficient

8 ~ nourish your own ruthlessness

9 ~ the border between rising and falling

10 ~ I loved him more for his weakness

11 ~ a desire to save the world from chaos

12 ~ say not soft things

13 ~ courage is morally neutral

14 ~ the twilight language

15 ~ tremble like a flower

16 ~ You are due to be transformed.

17 ~ violence you can see and violence that hides

18 ~ portrait of a family

19 ~ all this foolishness about moons and blossoms

20 ~ almost gold, almost amber, almost light

21 ~ Human jackals for every human disaster

22 ~ Take a bow.

23 ~ I have daughters and I have sons

24 ~ even my beloved people will fall like petals

25 ~ a gentleman can have it all

26 ~ film and flesh

27 ~ In any case, try many things.

28 ~ I'm the emperor of sorrows

29 ~ all clues, no solutions

30 ~ Show me that and destroy me.

---Notes/Sources---

Some of the phrases/sentences are straight quotations from these sources and others are paraphrases or adaptations. The themes without citations came straight from my mind or from some source I didn't realize I was remembering. ^^;

1 - Basho
2 - Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa
3 - the title of an etching by Francisco de Goya
4 - The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
5 - title of a Suikoden V fanfic by

mithrigil
7 - Yosano Akiko
9 - Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa
11 - Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa
12 - "When you see the millions of the mouthless dead" by Charles Hamilton Sorley
13 - an article in The New Yorker*
15 - "Let's Dance" by David Bowie
16 - xxxHolic by Clamp
17 - "The Holy and the Divine" by Laylah/cypher
19 - Basho
20 - The Haiku Handbook
21 - Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
23 - another article in The New Yorker*
25 - inspired by an anonymous FMA kink meme fill
26 - a review in The New Yorker*
27 - one of the old Legend of Zelda games
28 - I've heard "emperor of sorrows" said in reference to Emperor Franz Joseph
29 - the name of a website, actually
30 - Honey and Clover by Chika Umino

*Inevitably I lost track of the notebook I write these things down in two days ago when I'd only properly copied out the themes, not the full citations. So, hopefully better citations for the quotes out of past New Yorker issues will appear when I find it. Argh.