World Enough and Time

I can relate to

teenygozer's response ... :-/

My own responses would be:

1. So little done, just not enought *time* ...

2. "Homo sum, Homini nihil a me alienum puto" [I am human, nothing human is alien to me]

3. As I'm a fan of classical and traditional music, probably something like Gabriel Faure's or John Rutter's Requiem.

4. Go about singing music of some kind. *Many* more people can sing than want to admit to it [IMNSHO]. :-)

5. There's tons of novels I have yet to write. [Whether any of them will ever be written before the curtain comes down is a question I'd rather not deal with. :-/]

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1. So true.

2. I've always liked that quote, and intellectually I believe it - anyone is capable of anything, in theory - but the longer I live, the more I think it's untrue. There are a lot of human behaviours that I consider absolutely inexplicable and difficult to undersatnd.

3. Good choices.

4. My mother always said anyone can learn to sing. As a poor singer, I am not so sure.

5. Yeah.

I'm feeling very frustrated and beleagured this afternoon. Grumpy. Exhausted. Want to scream. I want a few hours somewhere, sometime when there's not something I have to do -- !

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I still think that most if not all human behaviour is explicable ... if we had just a little more information. :-)

Maybe I'm just an incurable optimist on this topic. :-) :-)

If I even get a *few* of the novels bottled up in on paper, I would not feel quite so unhappy. [More on that some other time.]

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I still think that most if not all human behaviour is explicable ... if we had just a little more information. :-)

Maybe, but we never have enough information. Can anyone understand even one other person, let alone diverse strangers? I have difficulty understanding autism, even though I understand, to a point, the cause (neurological diversity) and the results (different perception). I have trouble understanding even myself, sometimes.

I believe that one of the ways we come to understand others is through reading novels, which is why they are important.

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"Be unprepared" ought to be my motto. Do other people think about it? Really?

Yes, really! Carpe diem (my #1 motto) and all that.

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Yup, I'm all for carpe diem - that comes much more easily to me!

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Given the rendering I saw on one badge (where "diem" becomes "D.M."), does this mean you're going to grab me without warning? :-)

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I often think of DM as Duncan Macleod of the Clan Macleod, but that's just because I'm a Highlander... you're another DM... But I won't grab you unless you're a carp, okay?

[No, I did not just make a pun! So there.]

I suppose with the badge it was meant to stand for Dungeon Master?

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"Carpe D.M." only means that Duncan complains too much. Ahem.

Have we seen the ones that translate out as "seize the cookies" and "seize the chocolate"? I'm too tired to remember the Latin for those, alas, as it was wittily done.

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I'll pretend I didn't hear your pun. After all, I encouraged you by my [bad] example.

I love the way 'carpe diem' is used in Buffy, and 'carpe noctem' too. It's a great phrase, one of my favourite Latinisms.

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1. Damn, late again!

2. Damn, we'll miss her.

3. I want Mozart's Requiem, with full choir and soloists. I haven't decide who they should be yet.

4. I want flowers, tears, good food and some good jokes.

5. I'd go round telling my loved ones what they mean to me.

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Damn, late again!

LOL.

I want flowers, tears, good food and some good jokes.

A good combination!

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1. "Oh, fuck."
2. "Had a brilliant future behind her."
3. Pos de chantar, by Guilhem IX of Poitou. He wrote it when he feared he was to be exiled, after one of his excommunications. "So I lay aside joy and delight,/And squirrel and grey and sable furs".
4. Party.
5. I'd like time to finish my book…

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"Oh, fuck."

Yeah.

Pos de chantar, by Guilhem IX of Poitou

Brilliant choice!

I'd like time to finish my book…

Definitely.

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I admit I'd love to hear the Pos de chantar (recited or sung). Any idea where I could find or download such an item?

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1. I know I'd not be able to resist the desire to tell off some of the people I currently have to stay polite to.
2. Hm.
3. What I want is a hymn-sing with all the people who were in my little church when I was growing up. And they are all gone now. So I'll listen to them after I get to the other side....
4. I like flowers.
5. See 1.

I shouldn't have written this reply today -- gad, I'm in a bummer of a mood. Ah, well.

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Very good answers!

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You're much too kind! My answers were all, simply, "Duh?"

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Who is that gorgeous woman? Such lovely b&w!

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That's Louise Brooks, a gorgeous movie star from the 1920. She was an interesting, intelligent woman, too.

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I want to find out more.

That era's attitudes towards art are fascinating. Also, the sheer fact that so many media for art were new in that era -- such creativity! I could go on and on.

I have a book called Only Yesterday which was written in 1931. It's about the decade of the 1920s. What a find!! I have it in my locker at work, reading it in carefully-rationed little pieces so I'm not through with it too soon.

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Let me know if there are any particularly good nuggets of info in there.

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It's like reading Vanity Fair from seven decades ago...! It's all so fresh. He talks about events and people that all of his readers remember the same way he does -- um, you know what I mean, there. He synthesizes it into a coherent overview, but his material is so fresh. In front of him. In his hands. In everyone's concurrent minds.

And now, all of those who remember those events in that way are gone, I'd say. Which is just one reason I was so thrilled to find this book. How seldom people think to write down such descriptions of current life! Well, maybe not so seldom these days, but... even so, huh?

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This is one reason I love memoirs and autobiographies. It's such fun to hear things from the point of view of the person who is there, who is writing about experience.

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Indeed. I recently ran across a catalog of reprinted books -- there was one from 1910 about the latest innovations in aeroplanes, one from 1913 edited by Hugo Gernsback (yes, that one) collecting letters from amateur radio buffs, talking about how they'd built their sets and what they'd done with them, and other incredibly precious nuggets from earlier years. The catalog was Lindsay Books (hee), and they are online at lindsaybks.com, if you'd like to go look. I plan to get my dad his Christmas gifts from here -- in fact, one book was from 1951, about new discoveries and innovations in electronics, and that was right about when he was learning radar in the Navy and was soon to come home to become an apprentice electrician at Mesta Machine in Pittsburgh! He may cry. But... it's all good.

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