Today, my Dad brought a parcel for me from the letter box, and I danced with happiness. I ripped it open and there it was: Gerard Genettes "Paratexts". I opened it at once and skimmed over the content, busily noting important facts for my master's thesis, smiling and thinking "What a great book!"

So... What's wrong with me? It's a book about book ( Read more... )

I have decided to record lines and/or fics which cracked me up, for man, do I need cracking up in these times...

So, here's the first one:

Severus decided that if he was doomed to be a peach during his last chance for a sexual encounter with the man he loved, he would be a very sour peach. He settled in for a record-breaking sulk, one that would ( Read more... )

You know, this application to sorting_elite really got me thinking about some things... For example this question about what I respect in people. To date, there are three people I admire greatly (next to both of my grandmothers, but that's another story). First, there is Karl Bertau , one of my professors at university. He is about seventy, and his knowledge ( Read more... )

Guess what? I've applied to sorting_elite! You know, that terrific hogwarts-sorting-thingy with cool people all around! Now I hope they'll want me...

08.02.07, note: Darn. I forgot my html-tags. Let' see... I applied for hogwarts_elite at sorting_elite. There. Maybe overkill, but hey, it get's my future house five points. ;)

Kyril hath come...

Right now it is the calm before the storm, but wind is already howling in the chimney, whistling and shaking...

There's a song by the German band ASP, Der schwarze Turm , The black tower. It has one of the best interpretations of a musical storm that I ever heard, and although it describes an oncoming storm at the sea, it ( Read more... )

Nooow, look at this! Eye-tests! And not of the optician-kind!


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There are days like this one, when outside it is snowing, but the sun also shines. It is the verge of autumn and winter, a precarious balancing of warmth and cold... It is freezing. I can't get warm, whatever I try, I'm always cold. I wake up during the night, because a part of me is aching with coldness. Then I try to go back to sleep. But it's ( Read more... )

Is it you

The devil jeers at me
He drags your corpse across barbed hooks
And takes away my soul with laughter
:Wumpscut:, Is it you The Dark Lord grinned gleefully ( Read more... )

Sooo... This is my first post ever and I really don´t know what exactly to tell... Besides, my English sucks most of the times. Fortunately I have an extraordinary good excuse: I´m German *hee* But please refrain from comments anyhow connected to WW2, Nazis and Hitler. I´m half Polish (sort of) and half Palestinian (not better, hm?), so not even my ( Read more... )