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[sebastienne]

I am made happy. I've taken to LARPing which, for those of you who don't know, is like a cross between historical re-enactment and dungeons & dragons. (go ahead, purists, hit me for that description.) it is very very fun, and in geekishness probably about on a par with fanfiction. It's also closer to what I'm looking for (yes, that general intangible life defining object of quest) than anything else I've done for a while.

My life definitely does have an element of the quest to it at the moment. I'm sure that English students know better than I do (and there are enough of you on my Flist!) quite how central the quest or goal-oriented journey is to literature, and if literature is meant to symbolically encode some truth about life/existence/whatever then I suppose I should not be surprised. My life has always been construable in terms of a quest, now I come to think of it. An obsession, a striving-towards, an orientation. Almost always people or groups of people: first it was the Rocky Horror "cultists", as I thought of them; the moment I stepped into that midnight showing they'd welcome me with open arms as one of their own, I was always sure of it. Then my Wildean obsessions, my obsessive falling-in-love with the people who turned out to be my best friends (I'm looking at you here, Kat and Luke).. the role has been filled by theorising over the outcome to the Harry Potter books, and even by solving the enigma of my own sexuality - and now nothing fills that space in my psyche. I feel a little goal-less, a little lacking in obsession. This is probably just a function of maturing. Growing up. Ceasing to idealise things. I don't like that thought as much as I probably should.

I'm meant to be running a get-in tomorrow. What larks! What this really means is, I get to carry lights around and make sure we don't set the theatre on fire. I'm not really doing a very good job of this At All.

Comments

[foulds.livejournal.com]

I think classics gets the quest obsession a bit more than English. The slightly more primitive concept of a quest is more prevalent in the fairly typical story patterns of early myth, more than more advanced later Western literature. In Classics, it's taken for granted that everybody is heading out on a quest, no matter what, and the quest is the medium within which everything else happens, which certainly isn't such a universal feature of English (logically, Odysseus could well have set off on a quest for a nice cup of tea wine and spent two decades finding it).

Right, classics babble over

[slashygood.livejournal.com]

Your definition of LARPing makes it sound a hell of a lot more fun that the current group running it at my uni. :D

[me-and.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Personally, I'd say that LARPing is more geeky than fanfic. That said, I'm a compsci-wannabe mathmo with a general geekyness fetish, so I can't talk.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

but, do you speak elvish?

[shoolessdwarf.livejournal.com]

aha get ins are fun, but make sure:
1) there is a place where people can go and have a fag, preferably not in the cold. and
2) that someone gets the bacon sarnies in for people. also
3) you have a good soundsystem through which you can play fun upbeat get-in music.

[me-and.livejournal.com]

I'd like to, but languages have never been my strong point...

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

you do, however, have "mathsturbation" as an lj interest. i like you, boy, you are teh geek.

[me-and.livejournal.com]

This is true. Mathsturbation, in both its solo and mutual forms, is much fun. Alas, my main mathsturbation partner -- zeta_of_s -- is over in Tabland.

[me-and.livejournal.com]

*has added you on MSN*

[anariel-di-gaia.livejournal.com]

Hedwig get in? Play the Hedwig sound track! (Actually, Sugar Daddy is an excellent song to work to).

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

i want to learn how to fight more impressively. feel like teaching me a few things during december?

[gatty.livejournal.com]

As your icon declares, you are the techie queen.

[shoolessdwarf.livejournal.com]

hehehehe, yay!!!

[liriselei.livejournal.com]

yay LARP !