“O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn’t then.”
Foreward (p. xiii)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
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“Now is the time for drinking, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth.”
Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero
pulsanda tellus.
Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero
pulsanda tellus.
Book I, ode xxxvii, line 1
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
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Song lyrics, Surprise (2006)
Jim Steinman
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Context: Once upon a time I was falling in love
But now I'm only falling apart
There's nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the heart
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart.
“Now, when you pass my way
I guess I'll smile and say
To think that boy was mine
Once upon a time”
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"Once Upon a Time", written by Springfield
Lyrics, Ooooooweeee!!! (1965)
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Dante Alighieri
book
Paradiso
Canto XXXIII, closing lines, as translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
Context: As the geometrician, who endeavours
To square the circle, and discovers not,
By taking thought, the principle he wants,Even such was I at that new apparition;
I wished to see how the image to the circle
Conformed itself, and how it there finds place;But my own wings were not enough for this,
Had it not been that then my mind there smote
A flash of lightning, wherein came its wish. Here vigour failed the lofty fantasy:
But now was turning my desire and will,
Even as a wheel that equally is moved, The Love which moves the sun and the other stars.
Source: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 7 (p. 82)
