Wondrous Apparitions, Provided by Magicians.

What an odd word, from a woman who mocks the use of the word "priestess" as a verb...

No fair to post things that make me have to look things up on a Monday morning. On the other hand, it's nice to have something to consider other than whether I ought to clean that oatmeal up myself or let the dog do it.

Low glam,
Saff

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Hey, it's not my word. I'm borrowing the phrase as a whole. And it sounds better to me than "Bring the eschaton to immanence", so I'm willing to give the grammar some wiggle-room.

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Read Principia Discordia & the Illuminatus trilogy, and all will be clear.

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I'm working my way toward that. I've actually got assigned reading from

featherynscale.

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Yup. And, as phase II in my Cunning Plan to Convert the Druids(tm), I've sent

triadruid off to the laundromat today with my copy of Illuminatus!. So I'm thinking, that by the time you're done with Prometheus Rising, he will have given up on Illuminatus! in disgust and thrown it across the room whilst he quivers in a corner, and I can pass that one on to you.

Or my copy of Futureritual will finally come, and it will become your next reading assignment. BTW, I'm done with one of the ones I got from you and will hit the other two (shorter) when I'm done with either The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell or Monsters and Magic Sticks, one or both of which I should finish today.

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Convert? Not likely. I'm just a Renaissance Druid. An Action Druid, if you will.

I simply consider it a necessary element of General Competency to be able to understand symbol sets and methodology of different systems (even if they insist it isn't a "system"). Much like I try to be able to eat and shop in as many languages as possible.

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kcwitch.livejournal.com

smiling and nodding pretending to understand is a good thing for me right now. :)

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damonite.livejournal.com

Dear Ms. Kimberly,

Keep writing stuff like this. Fight Club references are always a welcome addition.

Love,
Mike.

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As long as I keep getting pulled out of bed in the morning by men in fluffy pink bathrobes asking me "If you could fight anyone, who would you fight?", this sort of thing will be hard to avoid.

Incidentally, I'd fight Michael Eisner.

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damonite.livejournal.com

You hate that man, don't you? Personally I'd like to go toe to toe with Nostradamus. I figure he's an old guy, so I can take him unless he really know wtf he's talking about. If that's the case it'd be over before it began.

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diermuid.livejournal.com

Which second law?

"The relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and force are vectors (as indicated by their symbols being displayed in slant bold font); in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector."? (Newton)

I was going to add Einstein's second theory, and then the second commandment and attribute that second rule to (God), but the firewall is killing me so just rest assured that this would have been a funnier post if I had more energy today.

On a side note, Ask.com gave me some weird results when I asked for a list of the twelve commandments. I could have sworn that there were twelve. Then I remembered the History of the World. It was fifteen, then Moses dropped a slab and it became ten. Silly me.

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Thermodynamics.

And the other two commandments, the ones they don't tell you about, are:

11. Thou shalt not attempt to test the tensile strength of cows.
and
12. Thou shalt not mix thy salts with thy sweets, for that would be more sensory enjoyment than the Lord thy God permitteth.

(or something. I could be wrong about those.)

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Have you ever read Stoppard's Arcadia? It's about sex, death, and literature -- and entropy! Not a long play; it'd take maybe a couple of hours to read once, but definitely rewards several rereadings. I have a copy if you're interested.

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I haven't, but it sounds like just my sort of game. I'd love to borrow it sometime.

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I'm thinking of going to the trance tonight -- if you (or someone from EHQ) are going to be there I can bring it.

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I won't be, but

kittenpants will. I'm not sure it's physically possible to have a Gaia event without at least one of the Trinity present. At least not this year. We're working on that for next year. Maybe taking a week off every once in a while... *sigh*

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Tom Stoppard is one of my favorites! A friend of ours (our eldest offspring's godmother, actually) was in a production of it. One of my favorite lines is when the mother (a very formidable dame) invites the protagonist up to her room late at night. The command is ended with the line, "oh, and bring a book." Happy theatre geek.

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I don't think I could pick a favorite line, or even a favorite scene. I just love how the scenes interweave, how little things mentioned in passing show up again several scenes later. And how we get to see what actually happened compared with what the modern folks think happened. It should be required reading for all classicists and archaeologists, IMNSHO.

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Bwa. Ha ha. I am currently on page 36 of said Arcadia and it has been the most entertaining 36 pages of a play that I have ever read. Thank you for being so kind as to loan it to me.

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