tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Apr 13 07:13:18 2006
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Re: Can Klingons learn from Vulcans?
QeS:
>Last night I was rereading "The Romulan Way" by Diane Duane and Peter
>Morwood. While reading it, I came across a short passage (pp. 44-45) which,
>while inconsequential in the novel, jumped out and caught my eye; it
>describes a supposedly Vulcan mode of poetry called the "steheht" mode. Two
>verses in this mode (in English) are given,
For those curious, here are the two examples QeS mentioned. S'task's "Last
Song" was a single verse, his farewell transmission to Vulcan and the last
poem he ever made:
Enthrone your pasts
This done, fire and old blood
will find you again;
better heart's breaking
than worlds'.
S'task was the leader of the *Seheikk'he" ("the Declared" or those who
declared their intention to leave Vulcan; they would eventually settle on
Romulus). Among Surak's writings after he died was found this stave,
referring to his favorite student, S'task:
Dethrone the past:
this done, day comes up new
though empty-hearted:
O the long silence,
my son!
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons