Emerald Ghost

Sep 06, 2012 22:18

Then came the wind like a bugle ( Read more... )

my novel, storm

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irubyoulongtime September 6 2012, 21:33:13 UTC
The wind tapped like a tired man,
And like a host, "Come in,"
I boldly answered; entered then
My residence within...

No bone had he to bind him,
His speech was like the push
Of numerous humming-birds at once
From a superior bush.

His countenance a billow,
His fingers, if he pass,
Let go a music, as of tunes
Blown tremulous in glass....

I'll take that nap with the hurricane for you, and we can trade experiences, Fisher-san.

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legendarybuchou September 6 2012, 22:06:45 UTC
Another poetry admirer, I see. Dickinson has excellent imagery, doesn't she?

It's quite exciting, isn't it? I just may have to set up a line and then take a nice nap.

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irubyoulongtime September 6 2012, 22:36:01 UTC
Dickinson is lovely, her images are always unexpected and precisely perfect... And yet she's always willing to revise and change.

I would reccomend it, never having regretted a nap myself.

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legendarybuchou September 6 2012, 22:45:00 UTC
And the new imagery she creates is just as enthralling as the last. Even I'm Nobody-probably my least favorite of her poems-has its own charm.

I do wish, one day, to travel to a country where an afternoon siesta is commonplace. I can never concentrate in the afternoon.

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irubyoulongtime September 6 2012, 22:48:54 UTC
My university library has the edition where you can see all the variations on the same page. All of the meanings at once.

Spain or Italy, my good sir. Stores close for siesta time.

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legendarybuchou September 6 2012, 22:53:15 UTC
I would murder for five minutes with that edition-who wouldn't, really? Every variation...

Ah, of course. Unfortunately I haven't been to Europe since I was a teenager-and then it was to the UK and Germany. Wonderful places.

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irubyoulongtime September 6 2012, 23:06:34 UTC
Hm, you might be able to find it at a gaidai. I know the one in Kansai has a copy.

Lovely places indeed, but they're not so keen on naps, unfortunately. You should have started a trend.

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legendarybuchou September 6 2012, 23:15:32 UTC
I'm a Keio grad student-perhaps there's an interloan program. Curiouser and curiouser, once we all return to Japan.

Hmm...I did take a lovely afternoon nap in a Munich park, but unfortunately when I woke up, there was no group napping in the park.

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irubyoulongtime September 6 2012, 23:40:24 UTC
Hm most likely they won't let you take the book from the library because it's quite expensive. But Keio could get a hold of one, I'm sure.

Such a pity but I'm sure it was a glorious nap all the same.

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data_kyojyu September 7 2012, 01:45:28 UTC
[ooc: I found this conversation extremely hot. But maybe that's just my inner geek!Renji.Somehow Yamato/Oshitari doesn't seem so far off for me now...lalalala/dead]

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legendarybuchou September 7 2012, 09:35:20 UTC
I'd happily devour it in the library-and I wouldn't break my glasses.

Ah, it was a glorious nap. I fell asleep to birds singing and woke up to a band in a far-off corner of the park, the smell of food in the air.

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irubyoulongtime September 7 2012, 15:26:32 UTC
I should hope not. Good glasses are quite expensive, even against Dickinson.

Mmm, not only poetic, but also prime opportunity for breakfast part two, sausage style.

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legendarybuchou September 7 2012, 17:40:25 UTC
There was an old television show I watched while I was learning English that had that premise-a man who only wished to read books weathers an apocalypse in a library, leaving him the only one on earth with plenty of time to read-and then he breaks his glasses.

And breakfast part two, sausage style was had. I like the way you think, nameless sir.

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irubyoulongtime September 7 2012, 23:46:13 UTC
If ever there was a good reason to go shopping for spare pairs of glasses....

Not that you can on this island, anyway. But we don't exactly have an eternity of books either.

I give you my hearty approval. Should we exchange names, or keep this internet encounter mysterious like two sausage lovers crossing ships in the night.

(ooc: Strikes are up to you, Yuushi just can't resist the call to dirty jokes XD)

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legendarybuchou September 7 2012, 23:52:24 UTC
Indeed. Should we wish to have more literature, we'll have to write it. Plato's Erotic Dialogues will only last for so long.

Eventually, we shall meet. I'll be the one with the sausage. A meaty port in a storm?

(ooc: Yeah, couldn't resist. XD)

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irubyoulongtime September 8 2012, 00:07:41 UTC
Plato's a staunch man. He can keep it up for a long time. But the idea of writing literature is solid. Paper might be a problem, but we could always do them through shared computer files.

A sausage at first sight: an auspicious meeting indeed. Where sailors and stranded island folk can rest their tired sausages, or put them to fun.

(ooc: >D )

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