Greg House: Man of Science, Son of Alchemy

[researchgrrrl]

Researchgrrrl, I hear you say warily, we cannot help but fear that in your new love of the totally hot and heart-stoppingly lickable Winchester boys that, well, you have completely lost your shit as evinced by the subject line...perhaps you sustained mild brain damage when inhaling the poison death gas yesterdayFear not, I must hastily reply, because my shit

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[no_detective]

1. I love you. Let's run off to Canada and get married.

2. House as a modern-day alchemist is, without a doubt, the sexiest thing I've read in a very, VERY long time. And you provided links! Guh.

3. You have fallen under the spell of the Winchesters!!! I am still resisting that fandom (heh) though I do so rather feebly, and I must admit I've been reading the fic. Which is gorgeous. Even without the pudding. Although, pudding... *swoons*

4. Um, we don't actually have to get married. I could totally do the "living in sin" thing instead. Yep.

[researchgrrrl]

Take me! I'm yours! And for our honeymoon, we can swing down to Jersey and hang out with House and Wilson. It'll be awesome!

I'm so glad you dug this. I was on sensory overload with "Clueless." (I must have been more worn out from the excitement than I realized because I feel asleep around six in the evening yesterday and have just now come awake, ten hours later.) The subtext was amazing but the metatext...*swoons yet again* Alchemy! Egyptology! With caffeine and juggling and riding hellbent for leather on his motorcycle and another Holmesian character introduced! Squee!

Oh, and yeah. Winchesters. *thud* Dude. THEY TOTALLY ACT LIKE REAL GUYS. This show is the perfect anecdote for anyone who's read too much crappy slash in their fandom. Dean and Sam, they repress! They don't talk about emotional shit! They protest at the merest hint of having "chick flick" moments! They mock and occasionally annoy each other just for fun! And yet? They are both SO FUCKED UP in their own private ways. It's AWESOME

[hecateshound]

OMG...

Let us all live in sin together and compound the Philosopher's Stone. Because not only does it transmute all base metals into gold and create perfect immortality and health (kind of like a Goa'uld sarcophagus), but it provides all human knowledge. In medieval folklore and Alchemic myth, it is sometimes conflated both with the Orphic Egg and the Emerald Tablets of Hermes Trismegistrus, which of course, not only contain the sum total of all human knowledge, but are carved on the emerald that fell from Lucifer's crown when he was cast out of Heaven.

Whee!

Oh, these links are awesome. And they mention John Dee, Elizabeth's astrologer, who invented Enochian Magic, which is sort of like Quantum Physics, in that it's amazingly complicated and the basis of modern Ritual Magic and absolutly nobody understands it.

And oh, just yum.

There are so man more links here to go over in depth. I must read them all!

[researchgrrrl]

This is totally your field of expertise, dude. Rave on! I'll see if I can find links for anything you want to bring up that other folks might not know about, too.

[hecateshound]

I only dabble on the fringes of Alchemy in my whip-round through the history of Ritual Magic, sincerely. But all of those people babbling on about Spiritual Alchemy? Are hallucinating. Spiritual Alchemy is a 20th century invention because people are pretty sure these days that people can't turn lead into gold in their basements with cookware from Pier One

[researchgrrrl]

OOOOOOOOOOHH! GUESS WHAT ELSE I JUST NOTICED? (I'm sending you this comment that I just dropped to stickmarionette because I figured you'd dig this too

[pun]

I love it!

they knew that a truthful word, a seed of gold sown at a certain time in a certain soul would bring results a thousand times greater than those that could accrue from the knowledge gained through books or ordinary science.

Yes. That is so very House! Oh, I just love imagining him searching for mummies in Egypt! And I wonder what other interesting places he lived!

[researchgrrrl]

You totally picked out the part of the quote that made me so frantic to write this entry! When my brain skittered and scuttled from the stannous chloride + gold to Purple of Cassius to alchemy once I regained consciousness from the pure sex of House's confrontation with the chick in the bathroom, this was the very line that was cartwheeling around my head! How cool was it that they totally managed to give us an alchemist ep at the same time they gave us the most subtextual ep EVER? Squee!

Oh, marveling over the other interesting places he's lived is totally one of my new favorite things. *g*

[hecateshound]

Best mummification link EVER

[researchgrrrl]

Except... I want more. Bandaging and more recipies! Because now I'm left with a half-dismembered cadaver and a bunch of canopic jars, and that's just messy.

Hee! I'm thinking I might neep further on mortuary practices, burial rituals, and grave rites in coming days. You'll by all means have more recipes. *g* And this is my absolute favorite mummifying site, ever, because of its wonderful and scientifically thorough style. So glad you loved it, too!

I'm also glad that you dig the Alchemist metaphor given all that you know on the subject. If I can convince you, then I know I've presented a decent argument. *g*

[hecateshound]

Heh.

But hey... more mummification! Because you know, my life ambition is to make bright joy for some pathologist somewhere, someday, you know. I mean, I just know I didn't get the whole deal back in fourth grade. I mean, we got to build papier mache canopic jars out of milk cartons, and little wire brain hooks out of coat hangers, but we never got to actually mummify anybody.

Yeah, Social Studies was a weird place. It made me what I am today.

[researchgrrrl]

I'll absolutely add more mummification info -- not just Egyptian style, too. Also? I love that y'all actually got to make little wire brain hooks. That's my kind of Social Studies. Hee. I can see why you'd be traumatized not to get to use them, though. That kind of prep work should be rewarded with some sort of practicum, dammit.

[alibi_factory]

Oh, now I don't feel nearly so silly for writing a fic based on Masonic initiation rites. This is the best thing to happen in canon ever. Yes. Thank you.

[researchgrrrl]

Your icon is fantastic! Hee!

And wicked cool for using Masonic initiation rites for the basis of a fic! What a neat idea. I'm so glad my happy squeeing over "Clueless" worked for you. *g* This is TOTALLY one of my favorite episodes now for establishing such awesome canon, too.