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yakalskovich) wrote2004-07-15 04:52 pm
yakalskovich) wrote2004-07-15 04:52 pm
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Gah, I should really get going, or the bank will close, and so will the shop where I need to return nine bottles.
But I had to do this quiz (gacked from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Take the quiz: "WHAT RELIGION BESTS SUITS YOU?"
New Aged/Wiccan
An it harm none, do as ye will. You are a fluffy bunny. You wouldn't harm a fly. Actually, you might demonstrate to SAVE the flies! Than again, you're probably busy casing love spells, using a psychic talent, being a Vegetarian or trying to save the Rainforests. Either way, you're harmless.
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Duh, harmless! Me! Insult!! Suggest me something non-harmless to write, huh?
But I had to do this quiz (gacked from
cob_web)Take the quiz: "WHAT RELIGION BESTS SUITS YOU?"
New Aged/Wiccan
An it harm none, do as ye will. You are a fluffy bunny. You wouldn't harm a fly. Actually, you might demonstrate to SAVE the flies! Than again, you're probably busy casing love spells, using a psychic talent, being a Vegetarian or trying to save the Rainforests. Either way, you're harmless.
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Duh, harmless! Me! Insult!! Suggest me something non-harmless to write, huh?
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Would wou write Ben-Hur slash for me?
Oh, and happy holidays on the seaside. Know what, I was so desperate today that I started looking up www.spiekeroog.de for accommodation, although I have neither time nor money...
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I'm sorry about the Ben Hur slash; I'd gladly comply if I'd either watched or read "Ben Hur" within the last twenty years. I fear I can neither stomach historical novels from the 19th century any more ("Kampf um Rom" used to be my favourite book when I was eleven, but attempts to re-read it five years ago ended in utter squick, boredom and political revulsion) nor any movie that might contain Charlton Heston, after having watched "Bowling For Columbine". Even if I very well know the director screwed him on that by sekritly telling the actor who played Messala to play his character from a slashy premise - which is a well-known factoid, so I'd be dealing with nice canon slash here, but still. Sorry.
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As for Charlton Heston: Yep, he's a disgusting arms propagandist these days, but then he's also had an alcohol problem before he turned evil and probably suffers from Alzheimer (the way he reacted to Michael Moore...).
He actually came close to being a civil rights activist in the sixties (Y'see, my current Ben-Hur fit has made me do some research), so I'll deduce that he still was a nice slashy suffering male back in 1959. I think the past should be held against people, so it can also be held for them.
And it really is slashy as hell, that film. The way they burst into giggles. And the extended seconds Messala leaves his hand fiddling around on Ben-Hur's sleeve. Or the way they keep standing next to each other when Messala visits the family. And of course, the "Beg?? - When I begged you...!!" line. Which does remind me of Snape in POA, plus Messala sometimes sounds like Rickman anyway.:-D
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But that can only happen after my return from No Internet Land with its Red Brick Tranquility. I shall be thinking of you, toiling away and yearning for some nice reet-thatched roofs and those innumerable small wind power generators calmly turning their three-armed wheels all the way to the horizon...
I should so send you a postcard.
Q&A time, it seems :-)
A thousand DVDs? Wow! I found the Ben-Hur DVD at our library too, but unfortunately my computer (who has no sound anyway) gets stuck before the Begging Scene, and, on the other side, before Judah gets to feed Jesus some water. Zer shame!
Anyway, I'll gladly await your comments on the film after your return. Maybe I'm so fascinated because I've nver seen it before and my Dad told me those stories about the time when it premiered at the cinemas (Ben-Hur: Screening 5 p.m., Chariot Race 7.15p.m.).
Oh, wind power generators! I love 'em. We actually have some on the Autobahn route to Hannover.
Aw, yes, send me a postcard! That would rock!
Re: Q&A time, it seems :-)
I can send you a postcard only if I had an address or mail drop to send it to, my dear. You can try telling me at mlpachali at areion dot org where you want the postcard sent...
And we try counting the wind power generators we can see on the way to the beach every year, but most abjectly fail, as there's such oodles of them, and the same one might sneakily turn up from behind a little dip and get counted again. In any case, there are Many.
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The Captain's post is full of spoilers for Part 2, which he shouldn't have seen yet. :(
Apart from that: omgmore writing? More? Crazy, when're you going to get it all done? :D
Not harmless? Ummm. Nope. No ideas. Brain too dead.
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I thought all Falstaff does in part two is go to war with many of his cornies, never getting noticed by Hal, and then die in some battle or other? Ne? Or is that part three?
I'm going to write in the mornings, you know. When there would be Morning Session in the RPG but isn't, due to No Internet Connection.
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Falstaff dies between plays Henry IV Part II and Henry V. In bed. Which is why the scene of lamentation in Henry V.
Hee. A creature of habit?
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But who dies in battle, then, in the last part? And why do I think I remember Falstaff going to war from the BBC production I saw ages ago? I am mightily confused and may have to look up some synopses online.
Not only a creature of habit, actually - a creature of OMG I Can't Sleep With All That Early Sunlight In My Room. Which is why I already used to write in the mornings there last year, long before there ever was a Morning Session.
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