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1. Love memes (like the one going on at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
queenofthorns right now) are much easier these days now that LJ introduced its little thumbtack icon! You can track the entire discussion (to see if anyone you know comments asking for love), or you can track your anonymous comment (so you can see if the person replies to it). It's very cool.
2. Some of the discussion onhelenish's Take Clothes Off As Directed seems to be implying that it's a brand-new (and unfair) thing to comment on/criticize a piece of literature by writing another piece of literature in response to it.
But this sort of conversation between two literary works is at least as old as when Christopher Marlowe wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love ("Come live with me and be my love/And we will all the pleasures prove") and Sir Walter Raleigh replied with The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd ("If all the world and love were young/And truth on every shepherd's tongue ...").
queenofthorns right now) are much easier these days now that LJ introduced its little thumbtack icon! You can track the entire discussion (to see if anyone you know comments asking for love), or you can track your anonymous comment (so you can see if the person replies to it). It's very cool.2. Some of the discussion on
helenish's Take Clothes Off As Directed seems to be implying that it's a brand-new (and unfair) thing to comment on/criticize a piece of literature by writing another piece of literature in response to it. But this sort of conversation between two literary works is at least as old as when Christopher Marlowe wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love ("Come live with me and be my love/And we will all the pleasures prove") and Sir Walter Raleigh replied with The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd ("If all the world and love were young/And truth on every shepherd's tongue ...").
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The Passionate Sheppard to His Geek (abbreviated version)
And we will all the theorems prove,
That wormholes, jumpers, Genii fields,
Or what the Lantean life yields
And we will fly above the rocks,
Seeing the Wraith cull their flocks,
By rippling Stargates to whose rings,
The 'jumper program knows to sing,
And I will make thee gifts of coffee,
Brewed up with a hint of toffee,
A ZPM to boost our power,
And shielding for the highest tower,
...
And Sheppard's grunts shall dance and sing
For thy delight each (late) morning
If these ideas thy great mind move,
Come sleep with me and be my love.
OK. I'm going to go do something, you know, productive now.
Re: The Passionate Sheppard to His Geek (abbreviated version)
You should totally put that on your LJ. (I'd point everyone here, but I don't want the other parts of this conversation to get any more lively than it already is!)
Re: The Passionate Sheppard to His Geek (abbreviated version)
The Brilliant Astrophysicist's Reply to the Sheppard (verbose ranty version)
In a world fresh risen in mist
And if I weren't a pessimist
And thought only truth on Sheppard's lips
(and lust implied with canted hips)
such things might move me to believe
that you and I were meant to cleave
to one another through all life
and make me choose to be your wife
Thy snore, thy hair, thy manly bristle
Fascination of many a missile
Thigh holsters, belts, ears, black t-shirts,
And eyebrow movements as you flirt
While they tempt me, are not themselves
indicial of love, (but of elves)
long-lasting devotion comes not
from physical 'tributes or tyin' a knot
such concept of eternal love
is preposterous! Once rid of
the present, I learned briefly do
material sourced love accrue
towers will sink, ZPMs will
dull, and storms will come. Soon the thrill
will be ever gone. Leaving me
with moldy coffee, drinking tea.
Even a perfect jumper will
Run out of fuel. If dressed to kill
You will still grow more hirsute
And put in your mouth your foot
if toned abs last, hair not recede,
and love could forever succeed
then these delights my mind might move
to live with thee and be thy love.
Signing off before I write Ronon's Interjection to The Brilliant Astrophysicist's Reply to The Passionate Sheppard to His Geek
Re: The Brilliant Astrophysicist's Reply to the Sheppard (verbose ranty version)
You put this on your LJ, too! I command it!
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Re: The Brilliant Astrophysicist's Reply to the Sheppard (verbose ranty version)
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