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Jun 20, 2004 21:41

For Stephen in love

I've Dreamed of You So MuchI've dreamed of you so much that you're losing your reality ( Read more... )

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ann_septimus June 21 2004, 17:16:13 UTC

I've dreamed of you so much that it might be too late for me to ever wake up again.
I sleep on my feet, body confronting all the usual phenomena of life and love

*hugs knees* I can't breathe... that poem is amazing. And the context is perfect... one can so perfectly imagine Stephen writing/desiring to write this in code in his "frivolous" diary, confused and frustrated. *sigh*

Where ever do you find this stuff?

ghazalah June 21 2004, 17:41:29 UTC

Where ever do you find this stuff?

I read a lotta lotta lotta poetry, looking for Stephen. For more specific information, see my reply to scieppan above. :-)

It's a burden, I tellya. ;-)

ladybretagne June 21 2004, 18:36:56 UTC

*sighs* That's just... so totally perfect. Stephen gets to a point where he stops even really seeing Diana, she's just this phantom personification of some nearly impossible feminine ideal.

ghazalah June 21 2004, 18:41:53 UTC

Yep. Which is why he's disappointed when he sees her in The Fortune of War.

"Hey! This woman isn't perfect! But the woman I love is perfect!"

*kicks his shin with a pointy shoe*

ladybretagne June 21 2004, 18:53:55 UTC

Aaaand that would be the part I quote whenever people get uppity about Diana being evil demon spawn and Stephen being perfect. I love them both, but you can't deny that neither of them are a picnic to deal with.

ghazalah June 21 2004, 19:16:33 UTC

He's a piece of work, for sure. But she makes me long for Mona.

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all_ahoo June 22 2004, 20:24:16 UTC

I. LOVE. this. It's so perfect for Stephen. I love that he really goes at falling in love whole hog. Underneath that stoic exterior, man...
*lots of cuddles for Stephen*

ghazalah June 22 2004, 20:31:04 UTC

Underneath that stoic exterior, man...

HE'S A TICKING TIME-BOMB OF HOT HOT PASSION!!!

Or as he politely put it, he's "ardent". Pssh. Please, honey. You're so far beyond ardent. You're a felon-in-waiting.

all_ahoo June 22 2004, 20:35:56 UTC

I was talking about Stephen with a good friend of mine who's also a fan of the books, and we agree that Stephen and Diana have some WICKED wild & kinky sex.

And, y'know, Jack and Stephen too...

ghazalah June 22 2004, 20:47:11 UTC

*snerk!*

I imagine Diana has the good ideas, and Stephen is enthusiastically willin'. :-D Oooo, hey! That is fun!

(But I base that on the fact that Stephen doesn't get nearly as much practice as Diana does. Who knows: maybe Stephen spends his lonely cot-time pondering tactics.)

jewelweed June 22 2004, 23:18:19 UTC

A fellow Bostonian poet (though nothing like Robert Desnos!), and lover of Dr. Maturin salutes you and friends you. I love your journal and your taste is both poetry and literary characters.

Cheers!

Suzanne

ghazalah June 23 2004, 00:55:55 UTC

Salud! And thank you! Boston, eh? Poet, eh? :-)

Jewelweed is one of my favorite wildflowers! I love the way it lurks in shady places and then blooms those crazy orange flowers. And the snap-pods! So you are trebly welcome!

jewelweed June 23 2004, 01:45:31 UTC

Jewelweed has always felt very resonant for me. "Touch-me-not" and it propagated by exploding. Also the leaves gleam like silver under water. Amazing flower!

Yep, Boston. Currently moving out of the North End and looking for new digs, likely in the Brighton/Brookline area. Yep, poet. :-) I also sometimes delve into visual art.

Speaking of which, I ADORE the background for your journal. What is it from??

I like your reading. I like the poems you dig up. This journal is just plain wonderful reading. I feel you have a profound understanding of our favorite doctor and the workings of his heart. I am reading the Aubrey/Maturin series for the summer and cannot put them down!

ghazalah June 23 2004, 02:37:49 UTC

"Touch-me-not" and it propagated by exploding.

:-D I never thought of that way!

Good luck with the moving. Hope it's not too stressful.

The background is a dive into the geekiest corners of geekdom. Remember how Stephen's first book was The Phanerogams of Upper Ossory? So, I found this image of a 1702 specimen book at the Department of Phanerogamic Botany of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. I love it. I imagine Stephen kept one that looked similar. :-) It's a beautiful book.

For the rest of your post, just *blush*. I don't feel like I understand him very well at all, but I try hard: maybe that's what you see?

I'm ready to start The Surgeon's Mate, but I'm making myself wait. I don't want to eat the whole bag of chips all at once... I just started Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle: O'Brian lifted a whole chapter! *loves*

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