D is for Desires...
taelle gave me this one: The task with this particular time-killer, should you choose to accept it, is to write about ten things you like for any given letter.
taelle gave me a D. It's a little like picking that initial Scrabble tile from the bag; you never know what you'll get.
Okay, then. Ten things I like beginning with a D:
1. The Endless. No, the word "Endless" does not begin with a D, but their names do: Death, Dream, Delirium, Despair, Desire, Destiny and the missing brother, whose name I will not utter in case it's a spoiler for someone who hasn't yet read The Sandman by Neil Gaiman.
2. Dorothy Dunnett, my favourite writer.
3. Doctor Who.
4. Dancing.
5. Drama. Not just on stage - though I do love plays - but a sense of drama in real life, in literature, in anything. A convergence of concept, passion, and personality.
6. Doors, both as objects and concepts. They tend to look interesting, to be the focal point of the facade of any building. But more than that: they symbolize both connection and separation, connecting the inside to the outside and also keeping them apart, but making it possible to pass from the one state to the other. Doors are very mystical, yin/yang things, each one both an entrance and an exit.
7. Dogs. My favourite animal. The picture here is of the best dog I ever knew.
8. Dragons. Interesting mythical creatures. My Chinese astrological sign is the dragon, and I'm fond of some dragons of fiction: Smaug (the best character in The Hobbit), Mnementh (F'lar's Bronze), and the dragon whose name I forget in The One-Winged Dragon.
9. Decay. I like decay in the same way I like chaos. I like the notion of everything changing; I cities like Venice and New York where there has been great beauty and then decay overlaid on it, so there's a double message, lichen on the statues, the hard lines of stones worn down to smoothness or weathered to pox; a lingering sense of history so you can imagine the past - when it was glorious over another level of decay - or the distant future, when we will have decayed under the lustre of a new reality.
10. Duality. That seems to be a theme in my life. Insides and outsides, newness and oldness. Reality and imagination. Bisexuality is in a sense a double sexual orientation. Drama combines the duality of illusion, imagination masquerading as reality. Shiva's dance of life and death, creation and destruction.
My goodness, this exercise was actually rather difficult. But the challenge made it fun. Thanks, taelle!
Anybody else want a letter?
taelle gave me a D. It's a little like picking that initial Scrabble tile from the bag; you never know what you'll get.
Okay, then. Ten things I like beginning with a D:
1. The Endless. No, the word "Endless" does not begin with a D, but their names do: Death, Dream, Delirium, Despair, Desire, Destiny and the missing brother, whose name I will not utter in case it's a spoiler for someone who hasn't yet read The Sandman by Neil Gaiman.
2. Dorothy Dunnett, my favourite writer.
3. Doctor Who.
4. Dancing.
5. Drama. Not just on stage - though I do love plays - but a sense of drama in real life, in literature, in anything. A convergence of concept, passion, and personality.
6. Doors, both as objects and concepts. They tend to look interesting, to be the focal point of the facade of any building. But more than that: they symbolize both connection and separation, connecting the inside to the outside and also keeping them apart, but making it possible to pass from the one state to the other. Doors are very mystical, yin/yang things, each one both an entrance and an exit.
7. Dogs. My favourite animal. The picture here is of the best dog I ever knew.
8. Dragons. Interesting mythical creatures. My Chinese astrological sign is the dragon, and I'm fond of some dragons of fiction: Smaug (the best character in The Hobbit), Mnementh (F'lar's Bronze), and the dragon whose name I forget in The One-Winged Dragon.
9. Decay. I like decay in the same way I like chaos. I like the notion of everything changing; I cities like Venice and New York where there has been great beauty and then decay overlaid on it, so there's a double message, lichen on the statues, the hard lines of stones worn down to smoothness or weathered to pox; a lingering sense of history so you can imagine the past - when it was glorious over another level of decay - or the distant future, when we will have decayed under the lustre of a new reality.
10. Duality. That seems to be a theme in my life. Insides and outsides, newness and oldness. Reality and imagination. Bisexuality is in a sense a double sexual orientation. Drama combines the duality of illusion, imagination masquerading as reality. Shiva's dance of life and death, creation and destruction.
My goodness, this exercise was actually rather difficult. But the challenge made it fun. Thanks, taelle!
Anybody else want a letter?