I'm cleaning out my email inbox (I'm happiest when I have no more than a page of emails in my inbox, because that gives me the illusion that I've DEALT with them all)* and here's some (fairly morose) poems I dug up one night when I couldn't sleep. Be warned, they're all moderately depressing, except for the one in Spanish, which I don't have a ( Read more... )

 ( So, yeah, nothing but quotes (and three notes) under the cut. But lots of them. Spoilers! )

 Current favorite self-quote from editing tonight (Freak Camp Part 2, Ch. 3):

If you keep the stirring, the sluggishly should not be added

I think it sounds like a demented, very proper witch trying to make a recipe with only about half her marbles. If even that many.

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Note: In case you're worried now, this quote is an excerpt from editing ( Read more... )

 Yay friends!

We were discussing a pokemon that leeches power from its enemies.

Me: Sun Tzu says: "Whenever possible, take things from your enemy"
(I was listening to The Art of War last time I went walking)

Oseike: ahahaha
YES
well
it's a smart move
cuz then they don't have it
and
YOU DO

It's a rare person willing (and able) to clearly state the obvious ( Read more... )

Lifted from IM conversation:

Me:
     How did Hemmingway managed to write when he drank so much? *

Lavinia *seriously*:
     Hemmingway had lots of practice

D  *agrees*:
     Lots and lots and lots of practice.
     Also, I think you have to have issues

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I love friends. :-)

*Note: I have discovered that after about one glass of wine I become ( Read more... )

"You see, I loved her. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight." --Humbert Humbert,  Lolita, Nabokov

“I learned that the best way to take all people . . . is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone” --Quentin Compson, The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner

"When the darkness rises up from inside, that is ( Read more... )