Sex in the afternoon - what does coffee have to do with it?

[fajrdrako]

I got this from raggedrose and though the questions were quirkily meaningless and the answer probably more so I felt a pleasant resonant to the results - maybe it was the 'sex in the afternoon' line, maybe because it reminded me of some postmodern version of Nick and Nora Charles, maybe because it's the secret inner self I would like to become....


You are a cappuccino, sipped in the afternoon,
after sex.

You are not trendy; you set trends for others. You
wear black or nothing, and your playlist
alternates Mahler with bands no one else has
heard of. You read Rimbaud in public places,
and you have a vintage poster for La Dolce
Vita hanging over your bed. You pepper
your conversation with quotes from obscure
Jacobean revenge tragedies, and you cackle to
yourself when your lovers assume that you are
quoting I Love Lucy. Your glasses have
designer frames and you do not need them to
see.


What kind of coffee are you?
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You know... I really do read Rimbaud in public places....

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[widget-alley.livejournal.com]

You are a cappuccino, sipped in the afternoon,
after sex.

You are not trendy; you set trends for others. You
wear black or nothing, and your playlist
alternates Mahler with bands no one else has
heard of. You read Rimbaud in public places,
and you have a vintage poster for La Dolce
Vita hanging over your bed. You pepper
your conversation with quotes from obscure
Jacobean revenge tragedies, and you cackle to
yourself when your lovers assume that you are
quoting I Love Lucy. Your glasses have
designer frames and you do not need them to
see.


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Mea culpa. ::points at Amazon.com wishlist, which includes Complete Works of Rimbaud::


My idea of light reading is Anthony Gottlieb's The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance. (Speaking of which, I think you would love it. Seriously. It's interesting and full of anecdotes and quotes and dry British humor ("Any subject that is responsible for producing Heidegger, for example, owes the world an apology"), and I read 50 pages this morning at breakfast because I couldn't put it down.
It explains the various interconnections between the philosophers and how so-and-so lead to the development of this type of thinking and it is, without a doubt, some of the most enlightening, easy-to-keep-track-of, entertaining nonfiction I have ever read. So. Highly recommend it.)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Amazon.com wishlist, which includes Complete Works of Rimbaud

Yes, exactly!!

A Dream of Reason sounds wonderful. I've just gone and requested it at the library; which is futile, since it will be in my hands soon, and do you know how many library books I already have sitting by my bed? Hmm? Way, way too many!

Maybe I'll have a good chance to read them all over Christmas.

[widget-alley.livejournal.com]

Oooh... are we sharing library stories?

One of the desk librarians said that I was the only person she'd ever had to warn because I was approaching the checkout limit (35, I had 32.)

My Christmas break usually goes something like this: read, read, eat, read read, sleep, read read read, forget to eat because I'm reading, could sleep but would rather read instead, etc...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oooh... are we sharing library stories?

Why not? I spend a lot of my life in the places.

I was the only person she'd ever had to warn because I was approaching the checkout limit...

Hee! As far as I know we don't have a checkout limit. I try not to have more that 50 items at a time. These days, I'm around the 40-items mark, though occasionally it creeps up.

The librarian recently said to me she'd never seen anyone who read such a wide variety of subjects - "everything from homosexuality to Spider-Man". I liked this, of course.

I like the sound of your Christmas!

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

Wanted to say much thanks for the Lion in Winter you sent us - didn't look at the other just yet, but I'm sure Cat will thank you the next time she's on :) The package finally arrived.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It arrived!!! O happy day. Thanks for telling me. Just yesterday I was searching for replacements in a second-hand bookstore, to send them to Cat again - and I had no luck, and was disappointed. But it arrived anyway - I'm delighted.

[ceruleancat.livejournal.com]

It has indeed arrived, finally at last, yesterday.
What stories it could tell, of its kidnap en route and detention, and who was the book philistine who squashed it in half while retying it?
[Poor thing came with envelope torn and rebound in that plastic binding string wound so tight, we had to place the poor misshaped volumes under weights to return them to their proper stance.]

But arrive it has. Frabjoyous day.
;)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Somehow that kind of mistreatment and mishap to the book seems only suitable to the material contained - where Lymond goes through so many kinds of danger, battery and abuse, why shouldn't the book do the same? As long as it's legible!

Enjoy.

[ceruleancat.livejournal.com]

Based on that logic, let's never mail copies of Name of the Rose or Club Dumas. I dread to think...

The books are fine. A bit wrinkled but otherwise unharmed. They were squashed, but some rest under a medical encyclopedia was all the treatment needed. :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

let's never mail copies of Name of the Rose or Club Dumas

Aaack! What a thought!

A medical encyclopedia seems most appropriate for the treatment.