The Squared Circle rides again!

[dherblay]

I don't usually gakk stuff -- but then, when you come right down to it, I don't usually post -- but this bit of ponygirl2000's is too good to pass up. Though I tend to denigrate the conspiratorial mindset, I have to admit that the possibilities of historical figures having met under strange circumstances sends my mind to some interesting spaces. The fact that

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Re: Bravo!

[dherblay]

Having never previously gakked anything, I don't know where it comes from or from what it derives; it seems to be endemic to LiveJournals. If you see someone take a quiz and post the results on her LJ, and then you do the same, you have effectively gakked. It is unpleasant sounding, yes, and apparently unrelated to the term for the feeling of intoxification under the influence of methamphetamine. Apparently. I guess it's just onomatopoeia.

I have learned more history from kick-ass action/adventure stories than from most sources, which presents me with a certain, how should I say, Dumasian view of history, i.e., inaccurate. I continue to think of Catherine de Medicis as an evil old poisoner with occult tendencies. On the other hand, I know more about the Valois than is really necessary. (I am, however, disappointed that Dumas did not continue the story of Chicot the Jester and The Forty-Five through the murders in Henri III's Blois bedchambers of the Duc de Guise and his brother, the Cardinal of Lorraine, and the subsequent assassination of Henri III by the monk Jacques Clement, somehow working in the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the birth of [I'm a little obsessed] Thomas Hobbes.)

I like the idea of Aphra Behn, but I know much too little about her. I just know what I know from A Room of One's Own and a fun off-Broadway production of The Emperor of the Moon -- during which, and this is a separate rant, the astronomer character looked through, much as Rob Thomas once did in a video, a Newtonian reflector backwards. Ahh, the trifling little irritations of the backyard stargazer.

Re: Bravo!

[angeyja]

Try http://www.lit-arts.net/Behn/docs.htm

In the UK at present

[londonkds]

"Gack" or "Gakk" is a current slang noun for powdered cocaine itself. Does this mean LJ users tend to be on uppers? Explains a few things if it's true.