Is it strange to want to buy yourself an engraved ring?

#001 | PaperSpock | Wed 30 Mar 2011 @ 4:07:53 AM (UTC)

I very much like this poem: http://www.poeticportal.net/content/view/1595/29/ and think that a ring with "Even this shall pass away." on it would be very cool. As a side note, how much do engravings cost?
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#002 | Kodiologist | Wed 30 Mar 2011 @ 10:48:53 AM (UTC)

I would recommend the more familiar phrasing "This too shall pass".
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#003 | HeyDude | Wed 30 Mar 2011 @ 1:03:59 PM (UTC)

Nah Spock, I think that's cool. I have a friend with a "This too shall pass" tattoo and an engraved ring is pretty similar.

Also, I really like the poem, AND, I really like the quote on the side of the page: ""The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." ~ Theodore Hesburgh

#004 | Kylo Force | Wed 30 Mar 2011 @ 6:32:35 PM (UTC)

I kept reading "this too shall pass" as "you shall not pass" and was confused. But hey, if you like it, go for it.
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#005 | BUM | Wed 30 Mar 2011 @ 10:47:16 PM (UTC)

Aye. I think "this too shall pass" is an old Persian proverb, from the middle ages, which probably this poem is based on. Some fables have it that the king wished for a ring which could make a happy man sad and a sad man happy, and was given the ring engraved with "this too shall pass"

Great poem you have there, and a great quote also.
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#006 | Jacehan | Wed 30 Mar 2011 @ 10:48:43 PM (UTC)

I dunno, I feel like "This too shall pass" doesn't have quite the same connotation was "Even this shall pass away." Maybe because that common phrasing is most often said in response to bad things, while in the poem both good and bad shall pass.
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#007 | willis5225 | Thu 31 Mar 2011 @ 3:14:27 AM (UTC)

I associate "this too shall past" really explicitly with the holocaust for some reason. I think it was used a lot in Maus?
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#008 | Jacehan | Thu 31 Mar 2011 @ 10:39:00 AM (UTC)

I think it was, now that you mention it.
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