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i started reading mrs. dalloway on the bus to krys's house when finn was in and around philadelphia, and i actually read mrs. dalloway when i went to see him in london, but i still did not finish it. i put it down next to my computer with only four pages left. i finished it tonight. virginia woolf, i love you more than i can say. my women in literature professor's grandmother was in love with you also. she went to college, and read what you wrote as it was published. sometimes they could only get a single copy to her school, and they'd pass it around like a secret. she was devastated when you died. she still loves you. she gave you to her children, her grandchildren. i am terribly jealous of that. and you say things, things like:

what is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. what is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement?
it is clarissa, he said.
for there she was.


and it just makes me want to cry. so i want to keep parts of you. i want to keep septimus and his italian wife and sally and elizabeth, whom i barely know but who is so like a lily by the side of a pool. i want to keep you all in my heart, sewn up tight, and i want to give you to everyone i've ever met.

the moon is big and full. it was windy today, and cold. i rather liked the wind, but i'd left my emo scarf at home, so i would rather it had been warmer. usually when i notice that it is very windy i think that it has something to do with krys, and usually i am right, so i'm hoping that she is ok just now.

whitney gave me bubbles when i went to see her, so now when i am sad i stand in my room and blow bubbles and pop them until i am happy again. they are cherry flavoured.

lately all i want to listen to is mozart's requiem. i shall play it over and over again. i let my gothboy dress me today, and that was fun, because i'd almost forgotten where my eyeliner was, and my fishnet shirt had just been pining away without me. but then they had no earl grey at school, so i had to drink normal tea, and lipton is simply a crime against nature. i knew that morrissey had a new album coming out quite soon, but i didn't know that there was a song already flitting about until [livejournal.com profile] swirl_girlx told me. she is a wee prophet, apparently one with large breasts. if only all prophets were so thoughtful. and by thoughtful, i mean busty. use them interchangeably from now on.

i was listening to the pixies last night so i decided that my blazer needed a purple debaser button, but now i'm not so sure. should i be striving for condensed intellectual irony? would i do better to quote baudelaire? making meaningless statements is hard.

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Date: 2004-04-05 09:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chaos-are-me.livejournal.com
I want to grow up to be a debaser.

I think that's a meaningful statement, myself.

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Date: 2004-04-05 09:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] earlofgrey.livejournal.com
and, as i mostly do queer/gender theory, it sort of is an intellectual statement, too.

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Date: 2004-04-05 09:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chaos-are-me.livejournal.com
I would proudly sport a debaser pin, m'self.

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Date: 2004-04-06 01:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kreuzvorabaddon.livejournal.com
WooHoo for busty prophets!!!!!!

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Date: 2004-04-06 01:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] earlofgrey.livejournal.com
and you succeed. *starts a cult*

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Date: 2004-04-06 01:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swirl-girlx.livejournal.com
Will you wear white robes and sway and freak out when I speak to you, my adoable little brainwashed minions?!

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Date: 2004-04-06 01:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swirl-girlx.livejournal.com
YESS! DANCE MY LITTLE SLAVES! *rubs hands together and cackles*

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Date: 2004-04-06 01:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] earlofgrey.livejournal.com
what style of dance would you prefer, god?

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Date: 2004-04-06 01:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swirl-girlx.livejournal.com
The kind where you make an ass of yourself. Go for it!

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Date: 2004-04-06 01:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swirl-girlx.livejournal.com
*The faeire queen falls madly in love with you*
(was hopnig you'd make a referance to Midsummer's night.)

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Date: 2004-04-06 01:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] earlofgrey.livejournal.com
hehe! were you? how could i help but comply? *sweeping bow*

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Date: 2004-04-06 02:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swirl-girlx.livejournal.com
since you are my mindless minion and evrything, you must obey even the desires that i havent told you of!

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Date: 2004-04-06 02:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] earlofgrey.livejournal.com
heh. that's a line in the marquis de sade's 120 days of sodom. :P

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Date: 2004-04-06 02:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swirl-girlx.livejournal.com
Why havent i read that book yet?
I'm a bad Bethii. ;_;

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Date: 2004-04-06 05:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] earlofgrey.livejournal.com
i don't recomend it, actually. i was only able to get up to the 17th day before i had to stop reading.

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Date: 2004-04-07 08:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swirl-girlx.livejournal.com
Most of the complaints I've heard about it is that it glorifies rape and murder...why didnt you like it?

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Date: 2004-04-07 12:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] earlofgrey.livejournal.com
that's it, basically. consent in sexual activity is a pretty big deal for me. and the misogyny was just so thick it was unreal. i can deal with it up to a point, but this book took it way, way past that point.

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Date: 2004-04-07 01:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swirl-girlx.livejournal.com
Huh! I've also read it's best point is that it makes a disturbingly good case for evil, you can almost see a logic in doing what he does. I'm still curious, but I think we have a similar aversion to non-consesual sex. So I dont think I'll be buying it anytime soon. :P

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Date: 2004-04-07 05:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] earlofgrey.livejournal.com
*shakes head* not that book. some other de sade is good, i'm told. his literary criticism is interesting, if not always brilliant. that book is just random acts of violence.

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Date: 2004-04-08 09:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swirl-girlx.livejournal.com
As much as I love me some gratiutous violence, yeck.

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Date: 2004-04-06 12:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] camarguais.livejournal.com
~smiles~ that is a pretty exerpt.

I would go with the Debaser button. Not only is it subversive, but it also makes a quiet nod to Pixie-chic. Pixie lovers can watch you walk by and nod knowingly. You would create a whole headspace for Pixie fans, a new way of thinking about debasing.

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Date: 2004-04-06 12:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] earlofgrey.livejournal.com
it is not the best, only the last.

very good. it may happen.

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Date: 2004-04-06 12:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] camarguais.livejournal.com
I know:) You read me other bits.

Make it so.

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Date: 2004-04-06 12:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] earlofgrey.livejournal.com
oh, good. i'm glad.

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Date: 2004-04-06 06:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randiriel.livejournal.com
I am glad you like the bubbles.

But, honestly...you've got to stop mentioning me in so many of your posts. I'll start to get a big head. And we all know that I need a big head like I need conjunctivitis.

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Date: 2004-04-06 06:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] earlofgrey.livejournal.com
hehe. but you're neat, and make my journal look cooler.

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Date: 2004-04-06 06:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randiriel.livejournal.com
Awwww...*blush* You're too nice to me.

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Date: 2004-04-06 10:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] earlofgrey.livejournal.com
oh, no, not at all. i think you deserve better.

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Date: 2004-04-06 11:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randiriel.livejournal.com
You do? Better? Pfft. That's sillyness.

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Date: 2004-04-06 07:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] virgomochabeing.livejournal.com
The Pixies aren't together anymore, are they?
How many albums did they put out?

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Date: 2004-04-06 10:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] earlofgrey.livejournal.com
they are not.

i'm not sure.

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Date: 2004-04-11 07:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] westlinwind.livejournal.com
*HUGS* I'm okay, darlin'...veryvery scattered, but okay.

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Date: 2004-04-11 08:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] earlofgrey.livejournal.com
good, i'm glad. *hug*

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