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[sebastienne]

Make a wish, and see yourself on stage, inside out, a tangle of garlands in your hair.

Never age. Never die. Live forever in that one white-hot moment when the crowd screamed.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

What can I add to a week like this? I know that I lose so much, so quickly, and am left with mere factual knowledge about things I once felt so keenly. I should document this week, this term, this life, so I can look back and remember. This should never be forgotten.

But all I could document, really, are the facts. How this feels, I haven't the art to express. So it will pass, as every other moment. But I have savoured it, sucked out its marrow, and that makes all the difference.

(ps: play "spot the reference!" with this post. my eternal love momentary admiration to anyone who can find them all without googling.)

Comments

[gin-gerkitten.livejournal.com]

1.?
2. Soul Music.
3. Walter Pater's 'Renaissance'


*prepares to be educated on 1*

xx

[highfantastical.livejournal.com]

I recognised #3, but that was all! *cultural failure*

[highfantastical.livejournal.com]

Argh, and now I've googled #1, and of course it's a source text which I mostly know very well indeed, which makes not recognising it all the more heinous.

[crouchinglynx.livejournal.com]

sucked out its marrow

"The Whisperer in the Darkness", Lovecraft.

[frodomorris.livejournal.com]

gah, that was the one I knew :-(

[liminereid.livejournal.com]

isn't it that move abotut he glam rock stuff you showed me?

[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, OK...that explains why you texted this to me at 1.30am this morning :)

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

eeep.. sorry! Hope you were still awake...

[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was awake; just slightly confused!

[osymandias.livejournal.com]

I love that icon!

[sir-rosealot.livejournal.com]

Ahem, sorry, that was actually me. I do not know whether or not osymandias loves that icon, but I do!

[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

No problem; this icon makes me happy, and it's a small tribute to the late George Carlin (since I saw him as Rufus in Bill & Ted's long before I knew of his stand-up work).

[miyo-chan.livejournal.com]

Lol, Velvet Goldmine

[deathbyshinies.livejournal.com]

Oh-oh, I know there was *something* I'm supposed to do when you start posting the words 'hard, gem-like flame' in your lj...

*readies the stun-gun, the netting trap and the thermos full of caffeine-free tea*