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So, I've realised an interesting fact about myself. Most of you will probably not be surprised.

When I enter a new fandom, or am rediscovering an old one, I attempt to connect it to Eliot somehow. Um, yes. While I was waiting to get sleepy last night, I paged through my Complete Eliot and decided that Angel (so far the most likely candidate for Elioting) might find certain passages of Ash-Wednesday and The Hollow Men rather apt. A bit of Rhapsody on a Windy Night, too. Um, yes. I have a feeling it is too late; therapy cannot do me any good now. (But just look at them, will you? I mean really.) And hey,
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
-- reminds me of Simon Tam rather a lot. Oh dear. I haven't really found anyone in any fandom who suits The Waste Land, although I can see River quoting:
A woman drew her long black hair out tight     
And fiddled whisper music on those strings     
And bats with baby faces in the violet light     
Whistled, and beat their wings
And crawled head downward down a blackened wall     
And upside down in air were towers     
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours     
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
And most of you lot know that T.S. Eliot is Remus Lupin's favourite poet. (Shut up. He is. Look at Preludes! And Prufrock! They were practically written about him! And, um, I actually possess about half a draft of an entire Remus-fic based on Rhapsody on a Windy Night. Yes.) And that Four Quartets was written after Mr Eliot took a spin in the TARDIS (definitely post-Time War, because there are references all over the place). And [profile] ressie_noldo and I decided once that the Weialala Leia are an alien race, but that's beside the point.

So, this is Banui's brain on, er, madness. Yes. Going away now.

(Stuff about Life later, maybe. I've been having a few days half-out of the world, which is nice, but I also feel about three times as absent-minded as usual, and I've always been terrifically absent-minded.)

Date: 2008-02-09 02:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] faeriemaiden.livejournal.com
IT'S NOT EVEN VOLUNTARY, THOUGH. It totally just happens. I swear. Which makes it all the more scary. ;D

(Also, your icon is made of win.)

Date: 2008-02-09 02:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] builtofsorrow.livejournal.com
Hee! I know. (-has never spent significant amounts of time aligning the personal timeline of Oscar Wilde with fictional characters- -hides-) I prefer the term wonderful to scary. It's got a nicer ring to it.

(Isn't it lovely? I found the picture on Anna Ternheim's facebook page, and just about died from glee.)



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