Comment for the camera!
and:
1. I'll respond with something random I like about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie/book reminds me of you.
3. I'll name something we should do together.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
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1. I'll respond with something random I like about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie/book reminds me of you.
3. I'll name something we should do together.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
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1. You are very, very fun to talk to in insane three-way MSN conversations.
2. Ack. Uh, pass?
3. Cackle, muchly, and poke meine_kleine with malicious intent. :D
4. I would have sid 'say cheese!', but you already did, so, uh...'Smile!'?
5. See above. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. :P
6. “There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.” -G.K. Chesterton
7. When did you know that you wanted to be an architect - and why?
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'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.'
So there we go, then.
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I resent that!
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Re. everything else, no, you shouldn't be able to feel your arms when you stretch. :P Then again, I shouldn't get out of breath running to the bus stop, so we both have some things to work on, I guess.
(The latter inspired me to think more about my exceedingly bizarre and rather surreal short story idea, which can't be bad).
Short story ideas, or things related to short story ideas, can NEVER be bad. *encourages*
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2. Ooh. Um. Well, music wise, pretty much anything by Jump, Little Children, as all of it that I have is from you. Book wise, I'm not so sure; your username always makes me think of the Hinterlight in Ravenor (and, I suppose, Hereticus, which is book three of the Eisenhorn trilogy, both of which are by Dan Abnett). However, a book that you remind me of, somehow, is Jonathon Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated, although I'm not sure why.
3. ...start a livejournal book club community. (Hm. Now that is a rather shiny idea...)
4. Hmm.
In lieu of any supa!sekrit in-joke, I will give you two poems. Neither are truly mine to give, or even to share; but both are really rather cool.
The first I found somewhere on a message board as a sig., and thought was rather wonderful, and is simply as follows:
Propel, propel, propel your craft
softly down liquid solution.
Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
Existence is simply illusion.I'm not sure why, but I like it very much ( ... )
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2. Excellent, excellent. And I really do have to read Everything is Illuminated soon. Speaking of books, how's it coming along so far? Don't tell me that you've still read a book a day throughout all of January... ;)
3. There's booklisters, which a lot of my flist has been talking about -- I haven't had a chance to check it out myself (no time yet), but you might want to give it a look.
4. I love those poems. ♥ I think I'm going to save the first one on my hard-drive, actually.
6. And I love The Phantom Tollbooth! It's one of those children's fantasy books that says much more than most adult fiction. And I agree, completely, with that second quote.
7. I would have to say altocumulus, because in terms of images, they're my favourite to look at. But "cirrus" is one of my favourite words, so it's a bit of a toss-up...
[written over a period of several hours, as little breaks from revising the Unification ( ... )
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3. *bookmarks link under 'things to be investigated whilst procrastinating essays with slightly longer deadlines* :P
4. :) I've realy got no idea where I found it - I think I was trolling around on a message board somewhere (in the original sense of the word, I hasten to add) and found it in a sig, and liked it so much that I had to take it home with me...
6. I wasgiven a copy years and years ago by a family friend, who, thinking about it, has been a source of some really rather wonderful books over the years (she gave me Molesworth, and has recently lent me a copy of Ridley Walker, and various other things) - and, for some unknown reason, I didn't read it. Then I did, and loved it, and have returned to it every couple of years since and enjoyed it more and more each time. It is, like Coraline, and The Book of Everything (and Fly by Night, and - just sneaking in to the age range - Un Lun ( ... )
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*steals the meme* ^_^!
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2. Ack. That song by that guy; the one by that guy who was in Cream and was very famous and a ridiculously good guitarist and was called Eric Clapton. *waves hand vaguely* Also, you can have a book, which, for no particular reason, is Eragon.
3. Talk; we haven't chatted for ages...
4. Emoticoniconicons. :D
5. Cala introduced us, and we got on like a house on fire; I had, I think, just returned from a school trip to an old manor house or a castle or something, and we somehow ended up having an e-fight over who got what bits of the huge collection of antique and perfectly servicable weaponry hanging on the walls. I think it involved ninja acrobatics, tickling, and a cannon that, when fired, extruded a little flag with 'Bang!' written on it.
6. You get three:
- ‘ "There were big adventures and small adventures, Mr Bunnsy knew. You didn’t get told what size they were going to be before you started. Sometimes you could have a big adventure even when you were standing still." - from Mr ( ... )
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2. Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained, by Peter F. Hamilton.
3. Convince someone to make a really good sequel to Freelancer.
4. SSSFL! (Although I'm sort of not. :P)
5. Uh... *dredges through mind* Having to mediate between you and Abby in an argument about religion. *laughs*
6. "It might help to consider the Zen koan, 'First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.'"
"Sure. That's really helped to clear things up."
-Niles Caulder and Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #21
7. In what medium would you wish your life to be recorded - a picture, a statue, a novel, a film, a sculpture, a cave-painting, anything - and why? If fiction or poetry or film or theatre, who would you want to write it?
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal. You MUST.
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They're big, hefty tomes (about two-and-a-bit kilopages for the both of them, IIRC), and the first will make you need to read the second. Whilst I was reading them, there were vast periods when I wasn't sure how much I enjoyed them - it's the future, and its face is big, interglobal coorporations, dynastic high-politics economics masquerading as democracy and the huge, rumbling wheels of interstellar beurocracy (and O, they grind so small), and they're all so very mundanely human, but it's vast and sweeping and somehow manages to come together in a huge, inspiring climax at the end that somehow makes up for everything else. And bits of it are inspired: the Primes, the petulance of the characters, rejuve, Morten and his merry troubadors, Paula Myo and Adam, and Ozzie, not to mention the way the other aliens work. They were lent to me by someone you'd probably like a lot, and they just felt right. *shrugs*
4: Tratior! :p The wages of the Devil, as they say ( ... )
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2. Fly By Night.
3. Start the eljay book club comm thingy that I mentioned to wanderlight?
4. Left or right?
5. My first clearest memory of you has probably got to be that huge gigglefit on the plane back from Germany. I don't think Mr Russ ever recovered... :P
6. ‘ "Aha! Mysterious orphan, strange talent, distressed upbringing… it’s all shaping up. The strawberry yoghurt is probably not important. Would your life have been different if it had been banana flavoured? Who can say?" ’
-Terry Pratchett, from The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
But you also get an Oscar Wilde one, becaue it is far too apt:
‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.’
(And also, because I love it so much, another one from The Amazing Maurice:
‘And we know what he died of. He died of squashing. You can’t catch squashing ( ... )
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Can you even remember what that was about? I seem to remember tutus came into it.
As for books;
Probably some of the good old classics - Anne of Green Gables, or Little Women, or some things of that ilk.
I might take some Terry Praatchetts if other people on the trip are taking them. otherwise I would read two and then end up wanting more and deprived.
I would probably take some history books, and some Dickens or Elizabeth Gaskell or something, to be good.
Then I might throw in a few others, depending on my mood really.
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Doug in a tutu; but quite how or even why we got there I do not dare to imagine...
Who exactly is Gaskell? The name rings a bell, but I've got no idea why...
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