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[pogrebin]

First off, hello to those who are new to my journal. I believe there was some kind of friending frenzy a while back and so I have some new people on the flist. I've finally gotten around to friending you back-- sorry that it has taken so long. Do pop over and say hello, and tell me about yourself. If you come bearing fic recs you will be given

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[pogrebin]

My dear, I am afraid my knowledge of Shakespeare's sonnet sequences is actually abysmal for an English student. But I have attempted to come up with something, after rereading the Dark Lady sequence, which was most enjoyable, so thankyou for the nudge in that direction.... And lordy, it's in first person.

slander
shakespeare & the dark lady

In nothing art thou black save in thy deeds,
And thence this slander as I think proceeds.- Sonnet 131

[zauberer_sirin]

oh my.

you have no idea how many times i have read this already, and will re-read it in the future. it's 4 in the morning so my thoughts aren't very coherent so i might have to go back to this in the future and comment about the gorgeousness of the reading, or the perfect, perfect Shakespeare voice (he was too self-conscious for his own good, the joke was never lost on him) but for now let me say this-

She writes with a total exaggerated grace, with one that has stolen knowledge from the shelves & books & pens of richer men, blind to their own blessedness and blind to her

SASFDJHGFJAHFJ!!!!

You bring together the erotic impulse and the creative impulse and I BLOODY LOVE YOUR FOR THAT. The Dark Lady as smuggler of half-understood words, repeating bits of the men she has slept with, and as co-writer of Shakespeare's sonnets by lying with him... It's just too perfect. You have given me the version of the Dark Lady I didn't know I was looking for and I cannot thank you enough for that.

Seriously. wow.

Thanks.