(FIC) Lightness of Being

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eve_k gave me a prompt foreeeeeveeer ago about Bruce+white hair. See, I started this story and then.. then... nothing happened. But I am decided to clear up my WIPs by finished them and I did finish this one and I like it, so.. ta-daaa

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[dm_wyatt]

Terrific.

Loved this.

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Thank you! glad you liked it :) thanks for reading!

[eve_k]

Oh Mensch! Gieb Acht!
Was spricht die tiefe Mitternacht?
"Ich schlief, ich schlief -,
Aus tiefem Traum bin ich erwacht - ;
Die Welt ist tief,
Und tiefer als der Tag gedacht.
Tief ist ihr Weh -
Lust - tiefer noch als Herzeleid;
Weh spricht: Vergeh!
Doch alle Lust will Ewigkeit
will tiefe, tiefe Ewigkeit!"

From: Also sprach Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

;)

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Eternity is quite a strange thing, both full of fear and hope, depends on where you are in life, I suppose, and what your outlook is. I could never say it was well as Nietzche, though! I can't believe my german is good enough for Nietzche, I thought I was much rustier...

[eve_k]

I guess it´s just like bicycling: once you´ve learned it you´ll never un-learn it. :))

This Nietzsche excerpt is so typical for his use of language: the words look so simple and the meaning is so complex.
Just like the term "Lust", which encompasses not only desire or delight but also pain and heartbreak. And the "wanting, forever" already implies perspicuously the "not getting, ever", which is in itself a "lustful pain".

I just saw that this has been my prompt from once upon a time, lol, thank you!

[starsandsea]

Whee! This was awesome, and such fun, and a wonderful thing to wake up to this morning! :D

It didn’t happen very often, but whenever you got a call from Alfred politely asking you to come by the Manor, all you could do was take a break and promptly report yourself to the Wayne household caretaker.

Mwhahaha!!! Alfred is God.

“He’ll be embarrassed once he comes around. But sometimes coming around takes him a long time, and it’s better to nip this kind of thing in the bud.”

Alfred should write a book on how to deal with the BatClan! :P

“Would you please stop talking like that?” Clark didn’t like the way the conversation was going, and he didn’t think it was going to accomplish anything, other than upset them both. “I like to think I wouldn’t let that happen to you.”

Aww. *hugs Clark*

“I am thirty three, my father didn’t start going gray until he was thirty eight. These kinds of things are not supposed to happen overnight, Clark! I am getting old and showing it!”

Hee!!!! *glomps Bruce*

“A perennial paragon of manhood.”*falls

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Wee! I'm glad you liked it Star! I had fun playing with Alfred and the whole batclan manipulation thing :P he is a master at dealing with his family, even when they are stubborn and silly (especially then, I suppose!)

I'm glad you liked laughing Bruce! I think sometimes you just gotta laugh at life being ridiculous and weird and unfair, or you go crazy. And writing the endearments was really fun! X) Thank you for reading, Star! I'm so glad you liked it!

[22by7]

Oh, Bruce. Oh, Clark. Oh, THESE TWO.

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They are Very Silly sometimes. Though I gotta admit Bruce's tantrum at going old has nothing on the one I threw when I found my first gray hair. Clearly Bruce is the more mature of me and him :P Thank you for reading!

[northern_star]

*giggles madly* Soooo funny! :) Poor Bruce, finding a couple little strands of grey in his hair - at 33. *giggles more* I'm not sure what it's like for a man, but I certainly remember when I first noticed I had some grey hair...and I wasn't 20 yet. ouch! But men should know that silvery strands in their hair is terribly sexy! ;)

Great job on this - sounds very much like them. And I really love how Bruce started out really anxious and then mad, and ended up roaring with laughter! :)

Thanks for sharing this one, made me giggle and smile a whole lot. :)

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Going gray actually makes most men sexier, I agree! but.. I know I freaked out when it happened to me, and my male friends seem to obsess about their hair in epic ways.. it's always freaky when our meat bodies start to show signs of use, I think. What do you mean I will not live forever??? eeeek!

Bruce, I think, was mostly very annoyed at life, thus his general grumpiness :P But he has a way of telling half truths, and giving ridiculous endearments to Clark and turning himself on kind of defused the frustration... the story did it all on it's own, so I think the muses knew how to handle this better than I did :) Thank you for reading! I'm glad it could make you giggle :)