Song: "The Code of the Goddess"
Feb. 21st, 2006 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bnewmanplease read the lyrics or listen to the MP3 before reading further...
I came up with this idea during a conversation with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fiddledragon (*hugs the muse*) and realized it would make a good song. I wrote the song at Boskone — about which, again, more later — and tweaked it a bit when I got home.
Who is she, then?
As a maiden, she is bright colors, music and noise, real-time interaction, and instant gratification.
As a priestess, she teaches us that, to make ourselves understood, we must make our words the perfect reflection of our intention. She patiently — kindly but without a hint of lenience — corrects our errors and directs us on the path of wisdom.
As a mother, her invisible womb is the place where our words — now imagined as our seed (the real thing is just information, too!) — are transformed and given life so that we can send them out into the world.
One of her open names is "Sophia". As for her secret name — it is whatever you cried aloud when you finally tracked down that pernicious bug only to realize that you should have gone with your first, whispered instinct to begin with.
She is Code.
I came up with this idea during a conversation with
fiddledragon (*hugs the muse*) and realized it would make a good song. I wrote the song at Boskone — about which, again, more later — and tweaked it a bit when I got home.Who is she, then?
As a maiden, she is bright colors, music and noise, real-time interaction, and instant gratification.
As a priestess, she teaches us that, to make ourselves understood, we must make our words the perfect reflection of our intention. She patiently — kindly but without a hint of lenience — corrects our errors and directs us on the path of wisdom.
As a mother, her invisible womb is the place where our words — now imagined as our seed (the real thing is just information, too!) — are transformed and given life so that we can send them out into the world.
One of her open names is "Sophia". As for her secret name — it is whatever you cried aloud when you finally tracked down that pernicious bug only to realize that you should have gone with your first, whispered instinct to begin with.
She is Code.
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Date: 2006-02-21 04:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-21 05:00 pm (UTC)I am currently reading Cryptonomicon. *Head explodes.*
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Date: 2006-02-21 05:32 pm (UTC)(I still can't believe that I'm going to be a grandmother!) ;-)
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Date: 2006-02-21 05:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-21 06:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-21 06:32 pm (UTC)I don't think i'm going to add a verse, necessarily, but yes.
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Date: 2006-02-21 10:02 pm (UTC)Be with me as I slowly sift this pile of ancient bone
Memory of those departed, blood of those who came before
Teach me what my soul remembers, that their souls may live in you once more
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Date: 2006-02-21 06:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-21 06:56 pm (UTC)Oh, wow. I heartily approve of your religion, sir. ;-)
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Date: 2006-02-21 07:06 pm (UTC)