belated introduction
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queensthiefUm, Hi. Seeing how I suddenly got very vocal in the past couple days. I should really introduce myself.
I'm Kee. I've been lurking here for a while, and will probably sneak back into the shadows soon enough. I'm a post-grad student (Anglo-Irish Literature), so I balance insane amounts of things I should be doing with a well developed tendency to procrastinate. Posting to livejournal tends to happen when the procrastination level reaches "insane." "Insane" happens a lot, and not just with procrastination. I'm a Californian living in Ireland. :) (I'm also up way past my bedtime as usual.)
I picked up The Thief thanks to a recommendation on a mailing list discussing another author. I loved it, passed it around to friends, and picked up the sequels as soon as they appeared. They're now all on my list of comfort books. My mental image of Gen can be a bit blurry at times, but Eddis and Attolia are quite clear. For some odd reason the Magus has always sounded like Sean Connery to me, so that tends to be how I picture him as well.
I'm Kee. I've been lurking here for a while, and will probably sneak back into the shadows soon enough. I'm a post-grad student (Anglo-Irish Literature), so I balance insane amounts of things I should be doing with a well developed tendency to procrastinate. Posting to livejournal tends to happen when the procrastination level reaches "insane." "Insane" happens a lot, and not just with procrastination. I'm a Californian living in Ireland. :) (I'm also up way past my bedtime as usual.)
I picked up The Thief thanks to a recommendation on a mailing list discussing another author. I loved it, passed it around to friends, and picked up the sequels as soon as they appeared. They're now all on my list of comfort books. My mental image of Gen can be a bit blurry at times, but Eddis and Attolia are quite clear. For some odd reason the Magus has always sounded like Sean Connery to me, so that tends to be how I picture him as well.
Magus : Sean Connery
Date: 5/2/07 02:33 am (UTC)= love
What a perfect image!
Welcome, Kee! You've had some very interesting comments.
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Date: 5/2/07 02:38 am (UTC)Feel free to stop by the Conspiracy Room at any time.
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Date: 5/2/07 02:58 am (UTC)Re: Magus : Sean Connery
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Date: 5/2/07 03:12 am (UTC)Would you believe I haven't even read The Faerie Queene? I was pissed off that we didn't cover it in Brit Lit 1 (we did sonnets instead), but I never got around to reading it myself. I have at some point also read A View of the Present State of Ireland, but I don't have much to say about it.
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Date: 5/2/07 03:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/2/07 03:24 am (UTC)(I'm so totally not writing a paper about TFQ right now and desperately looking for someone who will understand me when I start ranting and raving about how Duessa's character is too complex to be covered in a ten page paper and how I need to limit myself and not get distracted by intruiging theological abstractions concerning the body of the Church vs. its leaders, and the idea that Duessa as a psychological person [though clearly she's meant to be more allegorical than physical] might have some sort of separation anxiety disorder that causes her to cling to the people who come into her life, as those people are constantly changing and she has no stability.)
(...focus, Jade, focus...)
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Date: 5/2/07 05:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/2/07 05:29 am (UTC)but it's very good! it's very, very good. (it's no good sir! time's up! The ladies'll have to go now, sir.)
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Date: 5/2/07 06:26 am (UTC)I, too, have a very blurry image of Gen, but a clearer image of the other characters. I suppose this is because the first book is narrated by Gen in the first person, so he's the only character who doesn't get a physical description. However, come to think of it, I often have a rather hazy mental image of my favourite characters, but a much clearer image of the more minor ones. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because it matters more with the ones I love.
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Date: 5/2/07 06:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/2/07 07:03 am (UTC)But yeah... welcome to Sounis. I lurk here. ^_^
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Date: 5/2/07 01:54 pm (UTC)Love the Newgrange icon, BTW.
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Date: 5/2/07 01:56 pm (UTC)Sean Connery? Hey. I was thinking Ian McKellen.
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Date: 5/2/07 02:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/2/07 02:15 pm (UTC)Don't worry about not doing an introductory post, anyone. I still haven't done one. :)
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Date: 5/2/07 03:26 pm (UTC)But you're a BNF so you don't have to
: )
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Date: 5/2/07 03:50 pm (UTC)I didn't
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Date: 5/2/07 03:52 pm (UTC)Oooh, another Magus candidate. Someone make Checkers an icon!
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Date: 5/2/07 04:11 pm (UTC)Don't you have a book to write or something?Peggy - have you no animals that need to be released into the wild? I believe I hear them calling.grrr.
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Date: 5/2/07 05:15 pm (UTC)This (http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=66150&rendTypeId=4) one?
Oh look, it's the Magus and Gen. (http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/Films/NameOTRose.jpg)
Ok, lunch is over. Back to work, really.
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Date: 5/2/07 05:37 pm (UTC)Haha, I just finished my last day of classes, and my English class ended the past three classes with Paradise Lost. I agree with what you said (I wouldn't like it half so much if I didn't have such an amusing professor--his summaries of Adam and Eve's exchanges were hilarious) about that--I cringe to think of everything I have to go back and reread, now that I've read that and The Faerie Queene, so that I can get all the references.
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Date: 5/2/07 05:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/2/07 05:41 pm (UTC)2) *switches gaze and continues performing duties*
3) GAH ONE OF THESE DAYS i.e. this summer I will read that book and then watch the movie. I think it's more Sophos than Gen, though. XD
Sure, "work." (I dunno, it takes a lot of effort to ogle that first picture without being too terribly noticable... :-b)
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Date: 5/2/07 05:42 pm (UTC)Re: !
Date: 5/2/07 05:44 pm (UTC)Has mwt heard that? I wonder if she'd be curious....*reprobatish*...........:PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
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Date: 5/2/07 05:57 pm (UTC)Re: !
Date: 5/2/07 05:58 pm (UTC):P yourself
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Date: 5/2/07 06:04 pm (UTC)Yes, more like Sophos, I think.
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Date: 5/2/07 06:11 pm (UTC)Also, I am jealous that you got your hands on the Crown/Court Duel books. I myself have been able to locate them as of right now. le sigh.
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Date: 5/2/07 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/2/07 06:32 pm (UTC)My library system back home is notoriously bad with series, but I don't think they had either book, which was alarming.
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Date: 5/2/07 06:35 pm (UTC)*watches closely for any foot-in-moments, sweeping her own under the rug for the time being*
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Date: 5/2/07 06:36 pm (UTC)Hey!
Date: 5/2/07 06:39 pm (UTC)Interesting thoughts - I'd never pictured the Magus as Sean Connery before, but it seems to fit very well!
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Date: 5/2/07 07:25 pm (UTC)Seabiscuit.Re: !
Date: 5/2/07 07:48 pm (UTC)Well, I didn't do an intro post, either, and I can't be a BNF-- I'm stealthy.
Though, er, it occurs to me that I could be considerably more stealthy if I stopped blathering about goats, underwear, zucchini, and other odd things.
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Date: 5/2/07 08:24 pm (UTC)Oh, I see. That's how you want it, huh? Well Checkers, I'll be watching you veery closely.*draws a little line and waits for Checkers to cross it*
:D
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Date: 5/2/07 08:25 pm (UTC)Re: !
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Date: 5/2/07 11:47 pm (UTC)um... the first picture that comes up under his name on google is... uh... frightening
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Date: 5/3/07 02:06 am (UTC)And I am jealouse that you are in ireland I want to go there sooo badly.
Anyway I am impressed you could get your friends to read the books. My friends just laugh at my obsession, though I am still working on them.
So awsomely happy for you to be here!!
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