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"Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [37] George Guthridge "The Quiet" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [37] 1983: Spider Robinson * "Melancholy Elephants" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [38] Ursula K. Le Guin "Sur" The New Yorker [38] James Tiptree, Jr. "The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever" The Magazine of ...
S. P. Somtow (a rearrangement of his real name Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul; Thai: สมเถา สุจริตกุล; RTGS: Somthao Sucharitkun; born December 30, 1952) is a Thai-American musical composer and conductor, and a science fiction, fantasy, and horror author writing in English as both Somtow Sucharitkul and S. P. Somtow.
The 1982 Annual World's Best SF is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, the eleventh volume in a series of nineteen. . It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in May 1982, followed by a hardcover edition issued in September of the same year by the same publisher as a selection of the Science Fiction Book Cl
These present-absent with swift motion slide. For when these quicker elements are gone In tender embassy of love to thee, My life, being made of four, with two alone Sinks down to death, oppress’d with melancholy; Until life’s composition be recured By those swift messengers return’d from thee, Who even but now come back again, assured
The traditional view has been that Perpetua, Felicity and the others were martyred owing to a decree of Roman emperor Septimius Severus (193–211). This is based on a reference to a decree Severus is said to have issued forbidding conversions to Judaism and Christianity, but this decree is known only from one source, the Augustan History, an unreliable mix of fact and fiction.
Beginning with line 9 the poet addresses not the youth, but “absence”: “Oh absence, you would be torment, except that you provide a pleasant opportunity to think on love, and, absence, you teach one to be not solitary but to be two, by praising the young man where I am, though he continues to be elsewhere (hence).” [2]
However, this key word is defective because it is absent in the couplet. Its absence in the couplet reflects the desertion of the "gift", the young man. [9] Booth understands the couplet to have sexual overtones. In the phrase, "I had thee as a dream" Booth suggests that "had" means "possessed sexually" or "embraced".
We would embrace Thee, with love and awe; Who would not love Thee, loving us so dearly? O come, let us adore Him, (3×) Christ the Lord. We shall see the eternal splendour Of the Eternal Father, veiled in flesh, The infant God wrapped in cloths. O come, let us adore Him, (3×) Christ the Lord.