Comments | wwidsith: Transience and idiocy

wwidsith

Transience and idiocy

Aug 15, 2009 08:52

I am at Hong Kong airport. I haven't slept in 18 hours and I'm in that strange beyond-tired zone of jetlag which is made worse by the fact that in another four hours I have to get on another 10-hour flight. The airport here is enormous but I am taunted by the huge windows everywhere, showing me Hong Kong, one of my favourite places in the world ( Read more... )

wearing the old coat, idiocy, always roaming with a hungry heart

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herself_nyc August 15 2009, 02:25:10 UTC

Clearly you have to read from Jilly Cooper.

Honestly, I can't think of anything, not knowing your sister. How about that scene in Anna Karenina where Levin and Kitty figure out in dumbshow that they both really love each other?

wwidsith August 15 2009, 14:24:26 UTC

THAT IS TOTALLY WHAT I WAS THINKING OF TOO!

By the way I am really looking forward to getting a chance to sit down and read all your new novel updates....sorry I haven't commented yet, but I will get round to it!

herself_nyc August 15 2009, 14:28:56 UTC

Wait, you were thinking of Levin & Kitty and those letters they trace on the table? No! REALLY?

I love all the Levin/Kitty stuff in AK ....

I've never read Jilly Cooper.

And thanks, I know you'll read my stuff eventually. Enjoy the wedding!!!

wwidsith August 19 2009, 05:09:52 UTC

I do too, Levin and Kitty are absolutely my favourite couple in all of literature. Actually, maybe there's something from their wedding scene that would work.

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ruakh August 16 2009, 00:03:57 UTC

I believe there's a law in the U.S. that at every Christian wedding, someone must read from that one passage from Corinthians. Since she's getting married in Queensland, where maybe they don't have that law, there's a chance you can get in on it before someone else lays dibs.

(Sorry, not being cultured, I have no serious suggestions. I found that part of Anna Karenina really boring. I much preferred the part where Levin gives Kitty his sexually detailed diaries, but that's probably ill-suited to a wedding.)

BTW, this:

> Apparently the priest was really averse to having someone else pick a reading, and my sister sent him this huge email about how I am very literate and articulate and well-read, […]

would so never happen here. I've never heard of anyone challenging an American bride about her wedding; I imagine it must happen occasionally, but they don't live to tell the tale.

wwidsith August 19 2009, 05:09:06 UTC

I love that passage too, but I think my sis wants something less religious.

hazel_shea August 18 2009, 09:43:43 UTC

I thought AK too, but I'm not sure if that passage would really have as much meaning taken out of context. So my suggestion is 'The Good Morrow', by John Donne.

wwidsith August 19 2009, 05:11:53 UTC

Good call, I love that poem! However, I fear my sister is the kind of person who switches off at the sound of words like "thou" and "troth".

weofodthignen August 28 2009, 20:42:26 UTC

Shit fuuuuck of course I didn't see this or I would have suggested that saga passage where the husband and wife are sitting morosely watching the cock fuck the chickens and he turns to her and says "It could be like that with us" and after that they get along all right.

Shows you what I know about weddings '-)

Hope it went off well and I do commiserate about the jetlag.

Jilly Cooper is still writing? She was my headmistress' niece or something so to me she is still frozen in that 30-years-ago time. Gosh, if I didn't have implacable Teutoburger anniversary deadlines I would totally beetle off and look at and probably edit her Wikipedia page.

Instead I must go to bed, damnit. I hope you found a place!!!

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