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In the bowels of the library you can feel the weight of more than thirty feet of books pressing down and around you. You shift through the moving stacks quickly, running light fingers down bare spines shivering and tracing indentations and scars and dips and you are careful not to linger too long before you are caught, and you are unable to escape. You are already unable to escape.
They pull you. Back and back because they promise; they promise knowledge if you would only look close enough, if you would only stay longer, and you deny yourself with an ache of long practice.
They call. And you press yourself to the sleek-slip-gliding shelves and stare up and up because it feels like there's too much, it feels like it'll never end, it feels like you could burrow into these shelves and never resurface and that you should press yourself deep into leather and binding and if the shelves move to press you flat and flat to never more move from the paper surface of these books, so much the better, like a pressed flower between pages or perhaps, more appropriately, some butterfly.
Something plain rendered beautiful by the pages and print and knowledge to which it is pressed.
Hermione doesn't allow herself to wander the library unsupervised.
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Have you seen the State of the Union drinking game yet?
[quote]
"Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States..."
The general rules of this game are no different from any other drinking game. A drink is either a shot or a good gulp from a beer (or cider). Different events call for different numbers of drinks and all you do is watch the speech and play along. If all goes well, you'll be unconscious by the time they show the other party's response.
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The results from the mini 'Definitions of Strength/Weakness' survey in the other post was interesting in that about 2/3rds of the responses was related to the issue of strength of will*.
*3 responded with a variation of 'lying down and giving up', 2 responded with a variation of 'courage to stand by their convictions', 2 responded with variation of 'willpower or the lack thereof', one responded 'strength to me is to be able to give up absolutely everything for a good cause'
This is, of course, a highly skewed (and rather small) sample. I wonder how the rest of the population views the issue, if it is a regional thing, or a cultural, or a liberal, or a slasher's mentality that's producing this...
along these lines, I think I'll keep a notepad nearby when listening to the State of the Union; it'll be interesting to find the patterns in Bush's rhetoric, even though I'm already fairly certain what he's going to try to use. (see also: State of the Union drinking game)
heh.
They pull you. Back and back because they promise; they promise knowledge if you would only look close enough, if you would only stay longer, and you deny yourself with an ache of long practice.
They call. And you press yourself to the sleek-slip-gliding shelves and stare up and up because it feels like there's too much, it feels like it'll never end, it feels like you could burrow into these shelves and never resurface and that you should press yourself deep into leather and binding and if the shelves move to press you flat and flat to never more move from the paper surface of these books, so much the better, like a pressed flower between pages or perhaps, more appropriately, some butterfly.
Something plain rendered beautiful by the pages and print and knowledge to which it is pressed.
Hermione doesn't allow herself to wander the library unsupervised.
[]
Have you seen the State of the Union drinking game yet?
[quote]
"Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States..."
The general rules of this game are no different from any other drinking game. A drink is either a shot or a good gulp from a beer (or cider). Different events call for different numbers of drinks and all you do is watch the speech and play along. If all goes well, you'll be unconscious by the time they show the other party's response.
[/quote]
[]
The results from the mini 'Definitions of Strength/Weakness' survey in the other post was interesting in that about 2/3rds of the responses was related to the issue of strength of will*.
*3 responded with a variation of 'lying down and giving up', 2 responded with a variation of 'courage to stand by their convictions', 2 responded with variation of 'willpower or the lack thereof', one responded 'strength to me is to be able to give up absolutely everything for a good cause'
This is, of course, a highly skewed (and rather small) sample. I wonder how the rest of the population views the issue, if it is a regional thing, or a cultural, or a liberal, or a slasher's mentality that's producing this...
along these lines, I think I'll keep a notepad nearby when listening to the State of the Union; it'll be interesting to find the patterns in Bush's rhetoric, even though I'm already fairly certain what he's going to try to use. (see also: State of the Union drinking game)
heh.