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[ghazalah]

For Stephen, following Jack

Elegance

It
Is not easy
To stop thinking ill
Of others.

Usually one must enter into a friendship
With a person

Who has accomplished that great feat himself.
Then

Something
Might start to rub off on you
Of that

True
Elegance.

--Hafiz

Comments

[sparowe]

So true... another measure of why Stephen needs him so, another measure of the difference Jack has made in his life....

[ghazalah]

Like a vine on a great tree, I think. Jack gives Stephen the support he needs to grow.

[ann_septimus]

The True Elegance is the structure and spare beauty of this poem. *sigh*

I read this last night and could still feel it caught in my chest this morning.

Exquisite. It feels like he's petting your head, telling you it's OK, in the face of all odds.

[ghazalah]

:-) I think just for one week I'm going to try not to think ill of people. I've already blown it for this afternoon (MEN!!), but I can start again right now.

GIANT SUPERMEGASQUEE FOR ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN!

It's dark out.

Not for night.

[ann_septimus]

They're another beautiful pair... verbal badminton! *grins*

[ghazalah]

It's been in my top-5 all-time movies ever since it came out, what, 15 years ago?

A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.

Or just as mad.

Don't get me started! :-D

[tuff_ghost]

hee! for when jack saves the guy from the shark, and stephen's in awe.

you're underwater now you're back where you came from
no stealing of beauty that could naturally flow
from the center of all that you are
all that you are

your beauty must be rubbing off
your beauty must be rubbing off on me

[ghazalah]

Hey! Where's that from? I see a vid!

Your beauty must be rubbing off on me

I really like that.