Snippet from NaNo

[inevitably_grey]

I Sing the Body Electric

I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the soul … / At another place he sings:/ I have said that the soul is not more than the body.

-Walt Whitman

The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less, it comes or it lags behind, / It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself

Comments

[spindlewand]

Magnificent as usual. I thought I would tell you that this reminded me, immediately, of one particular friend and her husband.

I would be very interested in reading the whole thing, sometime, or times,

[inevitably_grey]

Thank you so much. I just came back to lj and haven't had the guts to comment on your posts (since it's so long). Glad you took the first step. :-)

All this is actually inspired by Walt Whitman's idea of body and soul as one, of everything being one -- lacking dualism. I don't know how "long" it will be, but when it's finished I hope to have a fine little vignette / novella. And of course -- if I'm any proud of it (and if I get any far with it -- I still have no "plot", knowledge of character [not even a name]).

OH, I've been dying to ask you what your username is on NaNo. Mine is "muscularmusic".

And last but not least, I HAVE to lead you in the direction of the book called SILKWORMS. It's absolutely the best book I've ever read. No restriction and no nits whatsoever on it. It's translated from french, and almsot a novella, which is why it's not that known. The storytelling is close to perfection.

*huggles*

[evy_black]

Very beautiful, but I am more than sure you already knew that. Lovely work.
And Whitman is an amazing poet, so he’s a great choice.

Bravo! :]

[inevitably_grey]

:) Thank you. I've been LJ-absent (trip to Spain kind of made me stop looking in). But I'm trying to get back. Hope you're all right!

[evy_black]

Never better, love ;] Don’t mind me.

I did notice you weren’t around much. Did you have a good time in Spain?

[anonymous]

:(

I have completely fallen out of this blogging :( But I do miss you and you have been one of the reasons I've returned all the time.

Love <3
OX

James

ps: that's a beautiful avatar, btw. :)

[inevitably_grey]

*poke*

never mind it being, what, five months since i last checked my blog. :-)

it's strange--feels like i'm visiting a stranger's blog. and not mine.

i hope you get used to poking. you see, i'm intending to poke you quite frequently from now on (if you consider this response time medium-to-short), and it can become dangerously annoying, or obsessive. ;P

let's hope we don't start a poke war. O.O

*squishsquish++++months gone*