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ways_back_room2004-07-11 12:00 am
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Because geekery ought to be encouraged
Am absolutely delighted by today's conversations... how *do* we come up with this much discussion? Anyway, I have a random question:
Since we're all so utterly geeky around here, can we possibly keep a running list of poems quoted, texts referenced, et cetera? I keep seeing people quote interesting pieces of literature and wanting to know what they are and how to find them again.
I know Kassandra's gotten most of the works of Sappho in the last four days (not to mention some H.D.), and Beatrice had some Shakespeare; there's a piece of Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" on Guildenstern's lj page, and whatever Aziraphael was reciting to Tonks today.
I hereby suggest that people post the titles and authors of things they've quoted as comments on this post, (with, if possible, link to the conversations in which they were quoted) and save this somewhere in ways_back_room memories so we can find them again. Any thoughts?
Since we're all so utterly geeky around here, can we possibly keep a running list of poems quoted, texts referenced, et cetera? I keep seeing people quote interesting pieces of literature and wanting to know what they are and how to find them again.
I know Kassandra's gotten most of the works of Sappho in the last four days (not to mention some H.D.), and Beatrice had some Shakespeare; there's a piece of Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" on Guildenstern's lj page, and whatever Aziraphael was reciting to Tonks today.
I hereby suggest that people post the titles and authors of things they've quoted as comments on this post, (with, if possible, link to the conversations in which they were quoted) and save this somewhere in ways_back_room memories so we can find them again. Any thoughts?
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The poem Aziraphale recited was The Jaguar, by Ted Hughes. The recitation is near the end of the thread. There was also a brief discussion of The Life of Pi by Yann Martel, which will probably come up again later since Aziraphale is going to lend Tonks a copy. This, of course means, I'll be going to the library post haste to read it myself.
I love that this RPG comes with homework. *grins*
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She did a version of Sonnet 18 here (http://www.livejournal.com/community/milliways_bar/52366.html?thread=1422222#t1422222), Romeo and Juliet and Sonnets 14 and 15 here (http://www.livejournal.com/community/milliways_bar/38671.html)...
I think that's all right now, but I'm sure there'll be more...
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Bet you're really sorry you asked me to do this, huh?
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Today, so far, lots of Rilke; from the Duino Elegies and 'Before Going to Sleep'.
trans selkie ::blushes::
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His description of the people defying Crowley as displaying "this reckless caring" is the last line from Dean Koontz's book Intensity. (It came out in paperback in 1995, Peter is from 1996, so yes, he could have read it.)
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[has so far squeed at several lines from favorite musicals, most especially The Secret Garden]
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(Thanks for suggesting this, at the very least, it'll keep me from repeating myself too much...)
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In talking to the artist (http://www.livejournal.com/community/milliways_bar/80368.html), Lady Tere quoted "The Boy Next Door" by Peter Allen, "Joseph's Coat" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim, "I Am What I Am" from La Cage Aux Folles by Jerry Herman, "I Sing the Body Electric" from the film Fame, "Dancin' in the Street" by Marvin Gaye, Ivy Jo Hunter, and William Stevenson, and "Maria" from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.
In conversing with Ophelia (http://www.livejournal.com/community/milliways_bar/81442.html), Lady Tere used "Singin' in the Rain" from the film of the same name by Arthur Freed, "Come to the Garden" from The Secret Garden, "Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's Day" from Hamlet by Shakespeare, "Tea for Two" by Irving Caesar and Vincent Youmans, "The Golden Afternoon" from the Disney film Alice in Wonderland, "They Can't Take That Away from Me" by George and Ira Gershwin, "Under the Sea" from the Disney film The Little Mermaid by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, "Suicide is Painless" by Johnny Mandel and Mike Altman, "All Through the Night" a traditional Welsh lullaby, and "I'll Be Seeing You" by Irving Kahal and Sammy Fain.
And walking past the Lady (http://www.livejournal.com/community/milliways_bar/84311.html), I hummed "Luck Be a Lady" from Guys and Dolls by Frank Loesser.
Here there be dragons...
More paraphrasing than usual, and lots of smuttiness...
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When tweaking Luck, she sang "With a Little Bit of Luck" from My Fair Lady and "I Have Everything" from Fiddler on the Roof
And when butting in on her sister's romance, she sang from "Fantasies Come True", from Avenue Q and "Younger Than Springtime" from South Pacific...
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She also quoted "Oh What a Circus" from Evita to Sirius, referring to the Bartleby incident.
When she interrupted Sappho and Beatrice, she quoted "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" by Cole Porter and "Toyland" by Victor Herbert.
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