stoneunturned ([info]stoneunturned) wrote,
@ 2005-09-16 00:39:00
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Classes done - but the work hasn't started
Sometimes I need to feel French.

For such instances, my doctor prescribes Claude Debussy solo piano. With titles like
Reflets dans l'eau
Cloches a travers kes feuilles
Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut

and of course, most significantly,
Jardin sous la pluie (What could get me more? Deep blue-green, wet wet wet, raining treble notes upon a bass of leaves)
you know that it's the real deal.




If I appear, at any point over the next three days, to be
1.) not working
2.) suffering from any sort of social anxiety about how I go to college and therefore should not be working on the weekend, but be out 'partay-ing'
I suggest gently leading me back to my room and sitting me in front of the computer, for, until I have written those papers, that is where I should be.

Die, humidity. Thank you.



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[info]sainsha
2005-09-16 05:33 am UTC (link)
You should rejoice in the warmth of the Earth's embrace, for it is just as if He were kissing us all with the kisses of his mouth. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please.

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[info]stoneunturned
2005-09-16 03:37 pm UTC (link)
Boo. I don't want to be INSIDE His mouth, which is how it currently feels.



But actually, when walking about at night, the humidity wraps itself around me, the purple-orange skies of Swarthmore cloaking close, the thrum cicadas everywhere everywhere...

and that is nice.

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[info]yee245
2005-09-16 06:01 am UTC (link)
humidity does suck, but it helps keep you from sleeping, which is somewhat a good thing if you have work that needs to get done. sleping becomes too hard with all this humidity, which is why doing homework on a couch in an AC'ed room (no, not mine, but the lounge in my dorm) is a bad idea, which wasted a couple hours for me the other day...

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[info]ifyoucantalk
2005-09-16 12:21 pm UTC (link)
There's a lovely part in the Noel Streatfield book 'The Painted Garden' where the little boy Tim is playing the piano onboard the ship, and the steward comes over all misty-eyed and says, "Reminds me of my garden at home when it's raining," and then Tim says, "It's called Jardin sous la Pluie, and Mr Brown says that means Garden in the Rain."

I will help you to kill the humidity.

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[info]stoneunturned
2005-09-16 03:35 pm UTC (link)
Oh, The Painted Garden! I really have to re-read that. What a lovely exerpt. And typically Noel Streatfield...

We will kill the humidity with great big spunge-swords! And then wring them out over the parched deserts! We will bring balance to the force!

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[info]elenlin
2005-09-16 01:30 pm UTC (link)
Debussy and Monet - you break my heart with beauty.

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[info]miasmalmist
2005-09-16 01:46 pm UTC (link)
I've found that when I'm in a Debussy mood, some Ravel is never a bad thing either. Do you have a recording of his Sonatine or Miroirs? They're both beautiful, and should be shared through iTunes. Particularly appropriate for hot days in Woolman - at least on the third floor, one can look out the window at the right angle and see only wet trees and sky...

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[info]stoneunturned
2005-09-16 03:33 pm UTC (link)
Poor fellows - they have no autonomy, but always go swinging hand in hand in my mind. Probably because everyone feels the need to record their string quartets together. Which is fine by me. You'll have to show me how to get iTunes, for au moment, I have them not.

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[info]foxfour
2005-09-16 02:17 pm UTC (link)
sorry about intruding while you were talking shop. but if i had only known, i'd have told you to stop eating and socializing and work. no, not really.

(travers kes feuilles?)

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[info]stoneunturned
2005-09-16 03:31 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I noticed and almost went back to fix it (I often do), but then, when I got comments, the comment link would appear soiled purple instead of fresh blue, and so I thought I'd leave it. It was worth it.

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[info]foxfour
2005-09-16 04:47 pm UTC (link)
oh, alright. i understand the appeal of new-fallen snow.

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[info]kayasby
2005-09-16 03:03 pm UTC (link)
Speaking of feeling French, i felt the need to feel french yesterday, so i started babbling in french to Leah, who didn't really understand me. then my friend Zander (very not-straight) told me that my voice sounds like a phone-sex-opperator's voice, and that he'd like to have sex with it (the voice, that is, and only the voice). I found it funny.

Anyway. I miss you. A lot. I know that you're busy working all weekend, but we need to talk, even if its' only for 15 minutes.

love from kaya.

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[info]stoneunturned
2005-09-16 03:32 pm UTC (link)
Tomorrow. We talk. MUST BE SO.

<3 <3 <3

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[info]gradgrind
2005-09-18 01:11 am UTC (link)
I definitely hear you on the need to feel French from time to time. I'm hoping that writing about Courbet will serve that end...

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