Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen - by Gustav Mahler

Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I am lost to the world) Composer: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) lied (song) based on poem by Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866) Czech mezzo-soprano, Magdalena Kožená Lucerne Festival Orchestra Claudio Abbado, conductor

Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, Mit der ich sonst viele Zeit verdorben, Sie hat so lange nichts von mir vernommen, Sie mag wohl glauben, ich sei gestorben! Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen! Es ist mir auch gar nichts dran gelegen, Ob sie mich für gestorben hält, Ich kann auch gar nichts sagen dagegen, Denn wirklich bin ich gestorben der Welt. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen! Ich bin gestorben dem Weltgetümmel Und ruh' in einem stillen Gebiet! Ich leb' allein in meinem Himmel, In meinem Lieben, in meinem Lied! Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

I am lost to the world with which I used to waste so much time, It has heard nothing from me for so long that it may very well believe that I am dead! I am lost to the world! It is of no consequence to me Whether it thinks me dead; I cannot deny it, for I really am dead to the world. I am lost to the world! I am dead to the world’s tumult, And I rest in a quiet realm! I live alone in my heaven, In my love and in my song! I am lost to the world!

   

Monsters' Tickers - by TPO

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Some WP Readers' Comments on Dick Cheney *

10/18/13 thru 10/19/13

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-padova44
10/18/2013
"FIVE deferments" Cheney was a warmonger and a war criminal. To quote C.E. Montague, who wrote for what is probably Cheney's least favorite newspaper, The Guardian: "War hath no fury like a non-combatant".

-NANBAN
10/19/2013
Cheney's big deeds - Total Iraquis dead 500,000 and counting! Wonder where he is going to end up?

     -NavyRetired1 responds ...
      How many were killed under Saddam?

     -ottercliff responds
      So your point NavyRetired1, is that Dick Cheney is no worse than Saddam Hussien? 
      How would you stack him up against, say, Bashar Assad?

-Captain Murdog
This article put to rest the issue of whether or not Dick Cheney has a heart. The real question is does his brain have an emote function?

-Gorgonzola
I always thought Big Dick Cheney was audio-animatronic, anyway, eh?

-jayc1
I am reminded of the old fairy tale (referenced in the recent "Once Upon a Time" TV series) about the ogre who was impossible to kill because his heart was locked up safely in a box and buried away.

-scrim1
Now that this article is out, I wonder what kind of ghoulishly costumed creatures will knock at Cheney's door on Halloween night, dressed in heart-stoppingly scary costumes.

The servant he no doubt has tasked with opening the door and handing out the candy corn to trick or treaters should be warned that there are people out there trying to scare him to death.

-YellowJacket
There are lots of haters who post here that need to grow up.

     -Leo10 responds ...
      Yellow: You, deny someone telling the truth?

     -s.richart responds ...
      Where is that "thumbs down" button?

     -starling1 responds ...
      Cheney gives people plenty reasons to hate.
  
     -kerr759
      He was the worst kind of chicken hawk. Why is this story even being reported on 
      60Minutes or WaPo. And frankly, I doubt if the terrorists thought him worth zapping. 

     -starling1
      He is probably more worried about American patriots than terrorists.

-florentine
If the terrorists had really wanted to harm the U.S., they would have gone after Bush and left us with Cheney.

-Samster2
I can't imagine anybody would want their heart to go to that monster.

-maximum60
Couldn't Dr. Reiner simply give Cheney a diauretic to pee out the excess potassium like any other doctor for any other patient?

-Clance
"Paranoia strikes deep
Into your heart (life) it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid......." 
S.Stills

-Diamondback88
Just look at all the personal attacks, incivility, intolerance, venom, hatred, and bigotry leveled against Cheney by the lunatic left. Then see what happens if someone voices a simple disagreement with the gays. Then watch the Post and all of these leftist lunatics start screaming about "intolerance" and "incivility" and "bigotry."

I hope Cheney lives to be 120 years old, just to anger the left. It brings me tremendous joy every day to see that Cheney and people like Scalia and Clarence Thomas have lived for yet another day, knowing how much this angers the lunatic left.

     -Rachelva responds ...
      You sound very balanced and reasonable.

     -padova44 responds ...
      You should apply to Fox News.

     -Leo10 responds ...
      What makes you think all of this comes from the left?

     -DCsandiego responds ...
      That's a nice way correcting an idiotic posting, Cheney is reviled by the left, middle,
      and right. His supporters, small number that they are, tend to be nutters. _________________________________________________
* Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/cheney-had-heart-device-partially-disabled-to-prevent-a-terrorist-from-sending-a-fatal-shock/2013/10/18/ca6e2d7a-384d-11e3-89db-8002ba99b894_story.html?hpid=z4