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[fajrdrako]

"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning."
- Christopher Morley

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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." -Oscar Wilde

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Love it! Oscar Wilde said everything best.

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He is my much-maligned literary boyfriend.

Also, the universe mocks me. I'm all, "Yeah! Smallville!" And it turns out there's a gap in my reception. On, of course, that channel. Oh well. I'll simply have to restrain myself for a few more weeks.

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it turns out there's a gap in my reception. On, of course, that channel.

That's terrible! Cruel and malign fate.

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Oh, how she toys with me. That's all right. With any luck, I'll make quite a career out of cheating her. ;)

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As all the best heroes do. Still. No Smallville. That's bitter.

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::giggles:: Not yet. On the other hand, I get to delay satisfaction still longer, hopefully ending in a more intense experience when it finally happens. And I feel the rather obvious sexual references of that statement are appropriate, considering the show.

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On the other hand, I get to delay satisfaction still longer, hopefully ending in a more intense experience when it finally happens.

I like that philosophy. I remember that when I was on my first reading of the Lymond novels, I used to stop for a little while in mid book, just to savour the suspense, not wanting it to be over too quickly - knowing that the virgin experience, and the wondering, could only happen once.

I feel the rather obvious sexual references of that statement are appropriate, considering the show.

Well - I find the show satisfies my sexual imagination very nicely (especially whenever Lex turns up), but I know different people have different reactions to these characters. We shall see (eventually) if it lives up to your expectations.

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There are moments of Dunnett so good that I literally have to close the book, get up, and move, or I feel like I'll get lost in that gorgeous line of words indefinitely. It's such a rush , it's hard to keep up for a long period of time. One of the few writers that invokes a physical reaction with something purely intellectual. Dunnett... Firefly, oddly, and of course, LOTR.

We'll see what Smallville does. (Your "especially whenever Lex turns up" amused me to no end.) And, incidentally, you're the first person I know to actually mention the concept of a sexual imagination-- not sexual fantasies, but the actual imagination. I feel that you deserve kudos for being remarkably perceptive.

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There are moments of Dunnett so good that I literally have to close the book, get up, and move, or I feel like I'll get lost in that gorgeous line of words indefinitely.

Yes. And sometimes I would close the book just to linger over a passage or a scene. Or read it over and over, rather than continuing with the book.

And yes, Firefly fits in that category of impact, and Tolkien... so do a few other books and movies, but it's rare.

Thank you for the kudos on perception. I think a lot of people are unclear on the relationship between sex, imagination, fantasy, and entertainment; and the result is often a trivializing of fairly significant concepts. Which is why I avoid the word 'fantasy' in this context. Not, of course, that I have anything against fantasy. But I was referring to something more inclusive and larger.