The Balm of Gilead (1/2)

[lucius_complex]

Challenge: Summer of Snarry
Title: The Balm of Gilead (1/2)
Rating: G
Word count:2540
Content/Warning(s): none
Summary: There are many poultices he can make, but only one ingredient that cures everything.

A/N: For the wonderful
carolinelamb, on the advent of her birthday.

Comments

[carolinelamb]

(Oh, just a short note: I'm carolinelamb on LJ now, so my user ID is carolinelamb :) countesszero on LJ is someone else :)

[lucius_complex]

oh! I'm so sorry! how did i get this wrong - did u used to have another name?

I've changed it now. *shudders wt embarrassment

[carolinelamb]

Oh no, don't worry! I had two ID's for a while: I had an account on Insanejournal as countesszero, then opened a mirror account on Livejournal-only to find that 'countesszero' was already taken (ironically by a fellow German lady) so I opted for carolinelamb.

In the following years people continously confused the two ID's and at some point last year I decided to get rid of the countesszero ID altogether and only go with carolinelamb.

Btw, I noticed you posted this as an entry for the Summer of Snarry Challenge, but I think you have to post it directly in the snape-potter (or at least a link there that leads to your LJ entry) ...

[lucius_complex]

done! ^^ (lets hope it doesnt get take down again, i'm pretty clueless abt these things)

WHAT ARE THE CHANCES! is countess zero a german myth? famous person? secret society? oblique social phrase?

:p

[carolinelamb]

Yay! I just HAD to leave a comment there as well! Don't feel stalked please :P

Actually Countess Zero is kind of a nineties thing. It's from William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy, which consists of Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. They were quite popular, and when the internet started happening a whole bunch of people named themselves "Count Zero" or "Case", "Molly Millions", "Wintermute" or "03Jane" ... all characters in the books.

I read all three books the first time I lived in Tokyo-in 1991 or 1992-and loved them, despite the bad writing :P. I fear if I were to read them again, I'd notice how bad they really are, so I won't reread them :D ... but I still have a weak spot for the books because they made me fall in love with Tokyo and cyberpunk ...