Recuperation (why no, I *can't* write a post without a title)

[green_dreams]

There is a special place in Heaven for people who bring you NeoCitran and chicken soup when you're feeling as miserable as I was yesterday.

(Tangent: with the advent of /The Matrix/ and its entrenchment in popular culture, NeoCitran has odd new connotations. I imagine a lemon-flavoured medicated drink seeping through my system, watching the pitiful efforts of my well-meaning but unknowning white blood cells, splitting into stylized yellow globules to inflict miniature kung fu on pain impulses and virii in the dreamy slomo of medicine-time...)

Pain mostly gone. Stuffiness ditto. Body insisting it is not dehydrated, which I do not believe for one minute. I think part of the unpleasantness yesterday was the lack of coffee, which I intend to fix shortly.

And soon, I will get to hit things with a very large axe. Metaphorically, that is. I'm too nice to hit things with an axe in real life.

"Little stupid man who has a little stupid faith in a little stupid god... And you think you can stand in my way? An axe isn't even a holy symbol!"
"Oh." Oats looked crestfallen... Then he looked up, smiled brightly, and said, "Let's make it so."

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[harald387.livejournal.com]

Tangent: with the advent of /The Matrix/ and its entrenchment in popular culture, NeoCitran has odd new connotations. I imagine a lemon-flavoured medicated drink seeping through my system, watching the pitiful efforts of my well-meaning but unknowning white blood cells, splitting into stylized yellow globules to inflict miniature kung fu on pain impulses and virii in the dreamy slomo of medicine-time...

There's a really amusing art piece in there, somewhere. Like a Far Side comic or something.

-K

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

I love that quote. From what's probably my favourite book. It's the whole "genteel natural order of things" that the old Count and Igor stand for. Plus, I'm starting to realize certain similarities between Granny Weatherwax and John Constantine.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

The wonders of headology. One of the things I still remember best about Constantine is him bluffing himself, ?Zatanna?, and a kid out of a roomful of nasties on the basis of his name and reputation alone.

(The other things I remember best mostly have to do with the attrition rate of his friends. Incidentally, if you have not yet read his first appearances, from back when Alan Moore created him in /Swamp Thing/, let me know and I can loan you the books.)

I think my favourite Pratchett is still Feet of Clay, but that's because I love Vimes (who is another character with an excellent association with axes, I just couldn't find a decent concise quote on the subject).

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Use an incident. Specifically, when the Guild Council meets one morning only to discover a large axe stuck in their table. Vimes is overall my favourite character. Mostly because he despises the nobility.

As far as Constantine goes, I've run into him in some Neil Gaiman stuff, I've read "All His Engines", one old comic, and some of that one with the White Power types. None of the older stuff.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Doesn't fit in a single quote; I can quote the incident, but unless I add in other quotes from at least two more different parts of the book, you don't know that Vimes's ancestor used an axe on Lorenzo the Kind, last king of Ankh-Morpork, and that the Guild Council was plotting to install a new king.

I've missed the White Power stuff, myself (I think--it's been a while, but I have vague recollections of him getting rid of a thing-made-of-four-melded-skinheads by getting it to tear itself apart since it had tattoos for both Arsenal and ...Liverpool? Chelsea? can't remember). Kind of swamped this week, but may ask Kerry to pass books to Josh for you, assuming the GH is a workable pickup point...?

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

The two Hellblazer GNs are the newer ones.

And, the Gamer House is fine; I'm there usually once a week for jagash's Demon game, plus various other functions.