Monday, January 9, 2012

Cimmerian Death

Cimmerian!  What a great word.  Per dictionary.com Cimmerian is an adjective.  It means "very dark; gloomy; deep" and "Classical Mythology.  Of, pertaining to, or suggestive of a western people believed to dwell in perpetual darkness."

Arthur Rimbaud in "A Season in Hell" wrote:  "I was ripe for death, and along a road full of dangers, weakness led me to the boundaries of the world and the Cimmerian land of darkness and whirlwinds."

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