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PrintableKingSausage said: I need yet another reading for my wedding ceremony...something classy...not too "lovey." We're not romantic people, but would like a reading about commitment...values...friendship...that sort of shit. Ideally, I'm trying to find something with a literary background...we're both fucking literature fanatics, so that would make sense. My only problem is that most of my favorite authors don't exactly have happy views on marriage (i.e. I won't be reading Dostoyevsky or My Yan!)...
The first reading is a bunch of shit from Ayn Rand. No, I am not insane; she honestly had some great things to say about values and love, etc. Any suggestions? The clock is really ticking, and I would be VERY GRATEFUL for any help/hints!!! I love you...but if you try to take me for all I have worked for in "my" life when this fails...I'LL KILL YOU!!! :EVILLOL: The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain.
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Perhaps reading some of the poems between Elizabeth Browning and her husband? They were two "literary" people who were very much in love and happy to be married. They wrote back and forth, if I'm not mistaken.
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KingSausage said: violett said: kahlil gibran..on love
check it out Thanks for the suggestion...Unfortunately, we're both Hell-bound heathens and are thus looking for non-religious, non-spiritual material.  I feel like a jackass for not mentioning that before. Sorry! 
Here I am, asking for people's help, only to make it more and more complicated... "Alright people...I need a goddamn reading for my wedding...but it has to be exactly 3,416 syllables in length, the author must be at least six feet tall and really into collecting Beanie Babies...and it's gotta sound good played over Starship's We Built This City (On Rock 'n Roll)."  hmm...ok...  im a "heel spawn heathen" too i never looked at kahlils writings as spiritual...and deafiantely not religious
if it doesnt work it doe4snt work...and i understand... but gibran is a poet...
Good luck finding something!! 
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violett said: hmm...ok...
im a "heel spawn heathen" too i never looked at kahlils writings as spiritual...and deafiantely not religious
if it doesnt work it doe4snt work...and i understand... but gibran is a poet...
Good luck finding something!! They're not "spiritual" per se, but they do involve spiritual/religious themes and terminology. From http://leb.net/gibran/ "By 1918, Gibran began to tell Mary of an Arabic work he had been working on which he called ‘my island man,’ the seeds of his most famous book The Prophet. Based on a Promethean man’s exile to an island, The Prophet evoked the journey of the banished man called Al Mustafa, or the Chosen One. In her diary, Mary recounted Gibran’s musings about the book, which he later called ‘the first book in my career –my first real book, my ripened fruit." Soon Gibran added to the work the title of the Commonwealth, a separate work he had attached to the story of Al Mustafa. Gibran was to later link the seeds of The Prophet to an Arabic work he did when he was sixteen years old, where a man at an inn discusses with the rest of the attendants various subjects. However, Gibran still worried about his English writing and he sought Mary’s advice constantly. Gibran had always been fascinated by the language of the Syriac Bible, which reflected Gibran’s views on the creation of ‘an absolute language’, a task he tried to achieve through his various English writings, through the creation of a unified universal style. " Most of his writings that people frequently use for weddings have mentions of religious themes, etc. A lot of them have the word "God" in them. Religion matters so little to us that we're trying to find readings that don't acknowledge spiritual existence one way or another. The Kahlil Gibran on Love that was mentioned contains these quotes: "And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast." "When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God."" "And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips." "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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