(but honey we're just passers-by in another leaving scene)

[riverdresses]

I know I'm posting these a bit later than usual & I'm sorry, but ah, here they are!

& before we hop into this week's recaps, I want to take this moment to pimp this totally fab Jamie/Victoria mix that the ever-lovely nentari recently posted: Hero and Heroine. Go & procure it

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[lilyofshalott]

Don't you just love DW holiday traditions? The year before last I started watching Eight's movie on New Year's Eve.

Oh, I *do* have the 25th Anniversary Edition! I got it for this past Christmas-I just haven't listened to the "proper" commentaries yet.

IT DOES, IT DOES! I have it & I did enjoy her story, but then again, I'm a bit biased as I too, adore the Romantics & of course, Mary & her husband. (I have a biography of hers & her story The Last Man sitting on my table waiting to be read. :D) (& since I'm curious, what IS the proper quote?)
I forgot to bring my copy of Alice/Looking-Glass back with me (I took it home over spring break so my mum could read it) so this is going to be more of a paraphrase:

I *think* it's the scene in Through the Looking-Glass wherein the White Queen says her memory runs forwards & backwards. Alice says something along the lines of "That's impossible!" and the White Queen follows with "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as twelve impossible things before breakfast." (at any rate, Five is *still* adorable in this part)

Yay for fun tags! ^_^

[lilyofshalott]

WOOT! Alice & Looking-Glass are both on The Literature Network! (Bartleby is also a good place to look for things, but I think it houses mostly poetry.)

Here's the bit on memory: 'That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: 'it always makes one a little giddy at first--'

'Living backwards!' Alice repeated in great astonishment. 'I never heard of such a thing!'

'--but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.'

'I'm sure MINE only works one way,' Alice remarked. 'I can't remember things before they happen.'

'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.

And then further down the page: 'I can't believe THAT!' said Alice.

'Can't you?' the Queen said in a pitying tone. 'Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.'

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said: 'one CAN'T believe impossible things.'

'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!'

And here's the fic I was speaking of: A Vampyre More Accursed by jinxed_wood. I'd forgotten Romana II was the Companion! (Author's summary: On their way back from Cambridge, Earth, the Eighth Doctor and Romana find themselves shunted off to 19th century Switzerland, and a dark and stormy night with Mary Shelley and Lord Byron. [Set after BF's Shada])

[riverdresses]

O, THANKYOU SO MUCH for all of the Alice quotes! & for the links! ::hugs you::

& O, I ADORE that fic! I read it AGES before The Company of Friends was even being talked about & I thought it was great. It was very creepy & rather Gothic in itself - I think I should go reread it, actually! :D

(that & actually LISTEN to Shada - I mean, I'm writing Romana/Sarah Jane/Eight smut EPICS set AFTER that audio & I HAVEN'T FINISHED IT YET. What is WRONG with me?! ::hits self::