6/26/2006

Doing that Green Lantern thing once again

To prove a point:
Once upon a time I would leave a comment on my friends’ blogs in which I’d pick one of their posts at random and change it into a Green Lantern oath.
In a nutshell: The Green Lanterns must charge up their power rings from the planet Oa every 24 hours. In doing so they say this poem thing aloud which pretty much goes like, “In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight, let those who worship evil’s might, beware my power, Green Lantern’s light!”

So now that the world has gotten lighter- well, it has to, anyway, at least mine did- I’ll try a variation on that theme.

Here it is then, me deputizing crazy Modernist British writer and feminist icon Virginia Woolf into the Green Lantern Corps--


Please consider the following excerpt, from the lady’s utterly unreadable Mrs Dalloway book from 1925:
"She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life."


Now let’s see it read as through the verdant light of an Oan power battery:
In every voyage and adventure
must a lighthouse shine,
Through an age stone-white,
through this interminable life,
On the horizon befallen,
Green Lantern’s light!



…Comic books make everything so cool…