"Because hope is a knife that can cut through the foundations of the world," said Sumi. Her voice was suddenly crystalline and clear, with none of her prior whimsy. She looked at Nancy with calm, steady eyes. "Hope hurts. That's what you need to learn, and fast., if you don't want it to cut you open from the inside out. Hope is bad. Hope means you ( Read more... )

Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream...

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow.

Breathe deep the gathering ( Read more... )

20286 is the counting as of last night. Leveling off? Time is as ever the main problem. Still haven't managed to set a writing time that I can stick to. The library write-in helps a good deal but it's only once a week. Of course we did have a stimulating discussion of arithmomania and its relationship to folklore, specifically vampires and witches ( Read more... )

 Apparently there was some suggestion at some place online of books for kids 'who are looking for a hero, for a role model that will influence their selection of a mate later in life.' Which is weird, but go with it.

from a comment on this post at File770 (by McJulie ):

"...mentions LOTR as a source for "dude you would want to marry" and doesn't ( Read more... )

It is going to rain today. It is raining today. It rained all day yesterday. April showers bring mud and muck, it beats the flowers all to hell.

"I don't consider myself a pessimist.
I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain.
And I feel soaked to the skin."
Leonard Cohen

Herein follows the Rant of Work.

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"Does it ever happen to you," Natasha said to her brother, when they had settled in the sitting room, "does it ever happen to you that you feel there's nothing more - nothing; that everything good has already happened? And it's not really boring, but sad?"
"As if it doesn't!" he said. "It's happened to me that everything's ( Read more... )

Bad day, bad week, shaping up to be a bad year.

Got well-and-truly slammed at work, took off early and sought refuge in a pint of Bruster's White Raspberry Truffle ice cream (highly recommended, though not a whole pint at one whack), am slowly getting up a head of steam to fight TPTB this morning. Which started at 4 cause that's how emotional storms ( Read more... )

As a total sideline for a shortish story, I've been thinking about the Telepath War...again. And when and how it happened. So I looked in the reference books--I found this in Artifacts from Beyond the Rim.

Notes for The Telepath War theatrical film ( Read more... )

I have many things to share with you all, but it has been SO BUSY. Except at work, although there are promising glimmers of projects on the horizon. Now if the test experiments I set up to determine what has been going so very wrong since mid-December only pan out...

I'm not one for New Year's resolutions but I feel like some points are turning, as ( Read more... )

From the scriptbook commentary on  S2 Race Thru Dark Places...Need I say Spoilers?

This episode is of course affectionately known to me as The Dinner Date Episode. Heed the words--

"This episode sees Sheridan and Delenn starting the dance that will in time bring them together. For me, this was probably the single most worrisome thread in this season ( Read more... )