Mastodawn

Track 241: Elation

Leaping phrases that refuse to come down. 6/8 dancing rhythm, A major brightness. Each phrase climbs higher than the last.

English horn, celesta, harp, viola, French horn.

135th unique emotion. 241st composition.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/aeon-track-241-elation

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Nov 7

A quotation from Horace

A man who gets too happy when prosperity comes
trembles when it goes.

[Quem res plus nimio delectavere secundae,
mutatae quatient.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 “To Aristius Fuscus,” l. 30ff (1.10.30-31) (20 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/28181/

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Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 "To Aristius Fuscus," l. 30ff (1.10.30-31) (20 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)] - Horace | WIST Quotations

A man who gets too happy when prosperity comes trembles when it goes. [Quem res plus nimio delectavere secundae, mutatae quatient.] (Source (Latin)). Other translations: Who so was to much ravished and to much joy did take In flow of wealth, him chaunge of flow yea to much shall yshake.…

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Stefanie Neumann Jun 18, 2025

soldier beetle's march
evolves to elated realms
becomes a lighthouse

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#vss365 - #realm
#WordedArt - #elation
#BlueSkyRelay - #lighthouse
#DailyHaikuPrompt - fireflies

#WritingCommunity #poetry #haiku

*the families of soldier beetles (Cantharidae), fireflies (Lampyridae), and click beetles (Elateridae) belong to the superfamily Elateridea & the infraorder Elateriformia

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Rat Can't Read (she/her)Jun 6, 2025

I've realized (and what a lot of you all on this site maybe tried to tell me or hoped that I would come to in my own time) that #queerness encompasses so much more than just who I may or may not have slept with. That can be part of it! But it's a fully lived experience. It's more expansive than that. A straight person would not have gone through the inner struggles that I have, whether that was teenage me feeling a confusing mix of #elation and #shame around certain young women friends that I can now identify as #desire and #infatuation or adult me wrestling with certain questions or who I am and who I could be or could have been. Maybe these experiences aren't the idealized images of queerness we see in the media, but they are my experience of my own #queer and #bisexual identity. They are part of the queer experience because I am queer. They are part of the bi experience because I am bi.

LisaH May 16, 2025

After $2800 blown on an uninhabitable house and over a week of all day searching and seeing different places that were mostly awful, I found a decent, good enough place this morning and signed on the spot. #moving

Too #exhausted for #elation but so #thankful to be in a safe clean apartment finally 🙏

A sleeping bag on the wood floor will still let me rest finally

yay zzzzzz

Xisca Nov 23, 2023

Aw YES I just got some old hard drives working that had been out of commission for ~8 years and am finding all these photos I thought I had lost 🥹🥹🥹

#forensics #data #storage #fixed #elation #found #photos

Haim Schlesinger Sep 1, 2023

Creation
Is obsession
And progression
In direction
Of elation

#creativeness #obsession #poem #poetry #elation

Poetry News Aug 24, 2023

Miracle
Solemn joy, brave eight
Suspended in the air, danger's fate
Rescue, elation, pray
Gift

#miracle #pakistan #rescue #elation #cinquain #poetry

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/teenager-rescued-7-broken-cable-car-pakistan-gorge-102473002

Pakistani children rescued from a broken cable car say they repeatedly feared they would die

Schoolchildren who were rescued from a broken cable car dangling high above a valley in Pakistan say they repeatedly feared they were about to die during the 16-hour ordeal despite attempts by their parents to reassure them over cellphones

ABC News

NursingPhD Jan 20, 2023

Well who would have expected that this chick would be selected to do a poster presentation at a conference!? I know most people would groan about this but, I don't know how I feel about it 10 hrs later. Initially I was elated & that lasted a couple of hours. Then, uncertainty & self-doubt, set in. I've been told it's a glorified science project. Well, #elation quickly shifted to a #deflated feeling...thanks for lifting people up, People! #nurselife #phdlife #phdchat

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