Soso

Mar. 31st, 2009 08:14 pm
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Avatar: Katara - bend don't break)
Still sick - had to skip choir, which sucks. Not going to get to teach this week, which means no money ($15 from tutoring one day a week isn't much, but this is my whole income damnit). Missed math, will probably miss it again unless this gets better. Had to take two aspirin to feel halfway reasonable. The only good thing I can see coming out of this AT ALL is if I get to miss co-op school on Friday morning, but that means missing park too and I really could use NOT BEING SICK THAT LONG. *scowls*

In other, JUST AS ANNOYING NEWS, there was this awesome quote somewhere, I think by [livejournal.com profile] lassiterfics (I'm pretty sure actually about that), about how Peter and Arthur are so alike... it included something like 'The land and the king, holding a silent vigil for each other across time' and it was so frickin' gorgeous and perfect and I CANNOT FIND IT.

Also, my caps are out of control.

As a method of consolation, I wrote happy Narnia fluff earlier (already posted, 'When All The Leaves Are Gold'). Also read lots of G. K. Chesterton, especially this gem, called The Towers of Time. My favorite part has to be this stanza...

(There is never a crack in the ivory tower
Or a hinge to groan in the house of gold
Or a leaf of the rose in the wind to wither
And she grows young as the world grows old.
A Woman clothed with the sun returning
to clothe the sun when the sun is cold.)


I would just like to say - eeeeeeeeeeee. 'And she grows young as the world grows old./A woman clothed with the sun returning/to clothe the sun when the sun is cold.' I'm not even sure why this is so awesome, BUT IT IS.

ETA: WHAT? PAPA WAS SUPPOSED TO PICK UP 'SALT: A HISTORY' FROM THE LIBRARY. HE DID NOT. ARGHHHH.

Apparently he wasn't aware I had a book waiting for me, so he didn't ask for it when he went. DANGIT.

be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Avatar: Katara - bend don't break)
So I just realized that whenever I write the Merlin/Narnia commentfic, I'm listening to the same four or five songs. Red by Elbow, Mad Mission by Patty Griffin, and Mad World by Gary Jules. These are now my default Narnia songs, apparently, particularly for Peter. Especially Mad World, for right after PC, when he's just doomed.

ALSO, G. K. CHESTERTON, WUT.

Lepanto has always made me just want to cry because it's so well written and I will probably never write poetry THAT GOOD. But now I'm reading through the rest of his poetry, and OMG A PRAYER FOR DARKNESS.

If I dare snarl between this sun and sod,
Whimper and clamour, give me grace to own,
In sun and rain and fruit in season shown,
The shining silence of the scorn of God.


Gold Leaves is also freakishly beautiful. This is not FAIR.

I'm just going to go read poetry and be content. Maybe write some happy angst. Or just angst. Look, I don't know. I feel weirdly peaceful today half the time, but as soon as someone else walks into the room I go all tense.

I'd really rather just be by myself and write and talk to y'all today.

ETA: HOLY CRAP. LOOK LOOK. HERE. The Myth of Arthur. The last bit, what does it say?

Take comfort; rest--there needs not this ado.
You shall not be a myth, I promise you.


THERE. PETER TO ARTHUR. AWWWW.

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