Lyricality

onetruesikorsky asked for commentary on A Thousand Times Over.

( My commentary in bold. )

Ugh. I am definitely fighting something off (an expression which made lheena picture me battling off a tiny soldier), and I've spent most of the day asleep. I had bizarre Stephen King-esque dreams of being chased by childhood bullies, all of whom had been possessed by an evil demon, and I have no idea just what my subconscious is trying to tell me. o_O

And, because everyone else is doing it, ( put things in my e-stocking! Hee. )

Book Meme
(snatched from piscaria)
List the first sentence of ten of your favorite novels, without revealing the title or author.
Then see if your friends list can guess what they are.

One of these is always an immediate giveaway.

1. Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a King with two sons.
2. The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle. Guessed by andersenmom!
3. Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea while we talked about something that had happened a long while ago, and I said to you, "That afternoon when I met so-and-so...was the very best afternoon of my life, and also the very worst afternoon."
4. First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey.
5. On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. Bridge.
6. Bishop Farm lay a mile northeast of Litchfield in a long, slow valley easy with oaks and meadows.
7. There is a silence that cannot speak.
8. Rain. It fell steadily on the city of Hypprux, a promise of the coming spring, but a cold, grudging one to be sure.
9. We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood. Guessed by trigeekgirl!
10. The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.

I admit that I had a little trouble finding ten, and I'm sure some of them are too obscure to recognize (I added the second line of 8 for just that reason). There are a lot of books I LIKE, but very few books that I love, which is indicative of my personality as a whole, I think. I shall post the answers to those numbers unguessed in a day or two, for the curious. ^_^

I also think that though it isn't my favorite book, I should really include my favorite first line of all time:

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

From The Gunslinger, by Stephen King. ^^

Thank God, thank God for chai, without which I would still be staring aimlessly at the computer screen, wondering why on earth I was still trying to be awake. Well. Not real chai, but Celestial Seasonings makes for a reasonable facsimile, with the addition of some milk and a bit of honey. Now if only I could actually figure out where I packed my coffee maker (yes, this is particularly sad, because I have lived here for two years, and never once used it) my need for early-evening caffeine would be well and truly filled.

I have been working on the same piece of art for two full weeks. x_X I would be far more ashamed of myself, except that this is something of a new technique for me, and one I need desperately to learn if I really want to do concept work for games. I'm enjoying the process, but I'm also impatient for the final result. It's sort of amusing to be impatient with yourself. =P

Because I have been tagged by possibly everyone on my f-list, here is that book meme:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people except that all of you have done it already, so I tag NO ONE. Muahaha?

Mine is:

You will need to reposition the two groups slightly so that they meet the center of the tanks properly. Select and group all objects and name the new Null object Engine Parts 1. Add an array object to your scene, name it Engine Array and then drop Engine Parts 1 into it. The group will immediately duplicate around the central Y-axis using the Array object default options.

...Okay, that happened to fall right in the middle of a very boring tutorial about 3D modeling. The next actual chapter with interesting words is a few pages later in Martin McKenna's Digital Fantasy Painting Workshop, and goes like this:

As an artist I've always loved the macabre. As soon as I could wield a crayon, no wallpaper was safe from my drawings of malignant monsters. It might be my first memory of television that was the cause, which just happened to be an episode of Doctor Who. This set me off on a splendidly terror-filled journey with the series throughout my formative years, memories of which remain resonant and hugely inspirational.

I have a writing meeting tomorrow with andersenmom, which brings me great joy. I vow to actually get writing done. >.> No, really. THIS TIME I WILL PREVAIL. Also, the job front is looking up somewhat, so without jinxing it, I will hope for good things next week. ^^

I now give you the answers to piscaria's letter-meme. She gave me the letter "N" (and not "Q." Thank you ^^):

1. Nittle Grasper, from Gravitation, yeee.
2. Night, in general. It's restful.
3. Nefertiti, an especially interesting Egyptian queen (with a quite famous visage).
4. Neville Longbottom, one of my favorite HP characters.
5. Nelvana. I wish I controlled every cartoon ever to come out of Canada. o_O
6. New Age music. Not all of it, of course, but Brule (one of my favorite bands) is classified under New Age.
7. Nuts! Especially cashews. God, cashews. *craves*
8. Neverending Story, both the book and the movie. ♥
9. Notes from the Underground, which makes an excellent background for Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
10. Nuriko, from Fushigi Yuugi.


In other news, I've been considering writing a series of essays/articles as a guide to roleplaying. Would anyone actually be interested in such a thing? Or would it just be obnoxiously pretentious? Be honest, please. >_e