<html> <head> <title>Stan</title> <link href="./style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="main" media="all"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <link rel="icon" href="../img/runes/stan.svg"> </head> <body> <p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rune-Stan.png"><img src="../img/runes/stan.svg" alt="Stan rune" title="Stan rune"></a></p> <h1>Stan</h1> <p>Traditional meaning: keystone</p> <p>Meanings when upright:</p> <ul> <li>iconoclasm</li> <li>either affirm a belief or abolish it</li> <li>(in middle of reading) you're on the right track</li> </ul> <p>Meanings when inverted:</p> <ul> <li>an intention to keep a promise</li> </ul> <hr> <p>There is not a known Norwegian or Anglo-Saxon rune poem for Stan.</p> <p>A modern poem:</p> <blockquote> <p>Either with full throat believe<br/> or throw it to the streets.<br/> There is no room for ambivalence<br/> when it comes to making yourself free.<br/> If you yourself do not care,<br/> then who will care for you?<br/> If you wish not to escape this hole,<br/> not even the strongest can your body exhume.</p> <p>You're striving to decorate your jail<br/> so hard no energy is left<br/> to break through the Veil.<br/> So bogged down with minutae<br/> of strangers hundreds of miles away<br/> you forget to attention pay<br/> to the wife<br/> that lies<br/> beside<br/> you.</p> <p>Lethe, I with burning heart desire<br/> that you hold me as your only standard<br/> if you insist that veneration to a deity<br/> is the natural state of humanity.<br/> If you have to succumb to your nature<br/> as a vessel of pure action,<br/> the only caretaker I will accept<br/> is the only one who shares your passions.</p> <p>Are we doing this<br/> or not?</p> </blockquote> </body> </html>