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nockergeek) wrote2002-03-11 10:54 am
nockergeek) wrote2002-03-11 10:54 am
A little of this, a little of that.
Not a horribly eventful weekend. We had a fun D&D session at Garrett's house on Saturday night, eating yummy P'Zones from Pizza Hut as we saved the Duchess, staying up way too late. Woke up Sunday morning to the sight of a fire truck parked behind our car as the flaming building across the sidewalk was extinguished. Did some work at church while fighting the heaviness of my eyelids... and I won. Mom and Dad took us out to lunch at Chili's, which ended up being free because neither the waiter nor the cooks could get it quite right. Went home, napped, and then just had a nice slow Sunday night.
So no, not much going on. :)
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Been reading a copy of Hannibal that Mags lent to me, and I honestly have to say that I'm not all that impressed. There's not enough of Clarice Starling in the book to feel all that involved with her, the characters trying to catch Dr. Lecter are all morally reprehensible and utterly unlikeable, and the titular character himself is... almost alien. He's almost like a dark force of nature, a spectral predator, a meticulous bogeyman who slips through the spaces of evey net set to catch him. His love of the extremely fine and rarified things in life only serves to further separate him from myself, and his twisted sense of honor and culture makes him into a dark reflection of "proper" behavior. Chivalry without any belief in the sanctity of human life. I cannot identify with him in the least, and yet this beast is almost human compared to the absolute monsters who are hunting him. That's what the entire tale is - it's a retelling of Beauty and the Beast... only this time, Beauty does not change the Beast into a human through love. Instead, the Beast makes Beauty into another beast through obsession, mind-altering drugs, brainwashing, and a dinner of human brains.
I've read better.
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I've been missing some of my friends lately. I think Dan and Maggie are the only ones we see or talk to on a regular basis. Every now and I again I start contemplating calling people over at Casa, but I always forget later. Of course, no one ever calls here, and no one ever asks to come visit (except for the aforementioned Dan and Maggie). I'd like to entertain more people... we definitely have the space for it. I miss Dennis and Seth and Jed and Chuck. Need to get out more, and need to start getting people wanting to come over to our place.
So no, not much going on. :)
...
Been reading a copy of Hannibal that Mags lent to me, and I honestly have to say that I'm not all that impressed. There's not enough of Clarice Starling in the book to feel all that involved with her, the characters trying to catch Dr. Lecter are all morally reprehensible and utterly unlikeable, and the titular character himself is... almost alien. He's almost like a dark force of nature, a spectral predator, a meticulous bogeyman who slips through the spaces of evey net set to catch him. His love of the extremely fine and rarified things in life only serves to further separate him from myself, and his twisted sense of honor and culture makes him into a dark reflection of "proper" behavior. Chivalry without any belief in the sanctity of human life. I cannot identify with him in the least, and yet this beast is almost human compared to the absolute monsters who are hunting him. That's what the entire tale is - it's a retelling of Beauty and the Beast... only this time, Beauty does not change the Beast into a human through love. Instead, the Beast makes Beauty into another beast through obsession, mind-altering drugs, brainwashing, and a dinner of human brains.
I've read better.
...
I've been missing some of my friends lately. I think Dan and Maggie are the only ones we see or talk to on a regular basis. Every now and I again I start contemplating calling people over at Casa, but I always forget later. Of course, no one ever calls here, and no one ever asks to come visit (except for the aforementioned Dan and Maggie). I'd like to entertain more people... we definitely have the space for it. I miss Dennis and Seth and Jed and Chuck. Need to get out more, and need to start getting people wanting to come over to our place.
Re: Part of the reason might be...