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Wow. I can't believe it's taken me this long to get around to reading anything by Virginia Woolf. Silly, me.

"For, Heaven knows why, just as we have lost faith in human intercourse some random collocation of barns and trees or a haystack and a wagon presents us with so perfect a symbol of what is unattainable that we begin the search again." -Orlando, Virginia Woolf

Tasty prose.

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Wow. I can't believe it's taken me this long to get around to reading anything by Virginia Woolf. Silly, me.

"For, Heaven knows why, just as we have lost faith in human intercourse some random collocation of barns and trees or a haystack and a wagon presents us with so perfect a symbol of what is unattainable that we begin the search again." -Orlando, Virginia Woolf

Tasty prose.

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Hee! The glee! aelisdeliria sent me this one:

Naked Man!.

(don't forget to follow the "looking for aliens" link in one of the comments.)

(Ok, I keep shouting 'naked man!' for no other reason than the glee that reading this inspired in me - I think I might be worrying my neighbors, if they can hear me)

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Hee! The glee! aelisdeliria sent me this one:

Naked Man!.

(don't forget to follow the "looking for aliens" link in one of the comments.)

(Ok, I keep shouting 'naked man!' for no other reason than the glee that reading this inspired in me - I think I might be worrying my neighbors, if they can hear me)

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Heh. Silly common interests scripty thing that I found on beowabbit's journal. It claims that, at least based on common interests, my best friend is wolfieboy, with 50 common interests. Why does this _not_ surprise me? ;)

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Heh. Silly common interests scripty thing that I found on beowabbit's journal. It claims that, at least based on common interests, my best friend is wolfieboy, with 50 common interests. Why does this _not_ surprise me? ;)

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More quotes from Virginia Woolf's Orlando

Just really liking the turns of phrases, so I share yet more from the book I just finished.

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More quotes from Virginia Woolf's Orlando

Just really liking the turns of phrases, so I share yet more from the book I just finished.

( More quotes from Orlando )

Strange conversations...

An older gentleman, to a child: "Look, there's a girl in that tree!"

Same guy, to me: "Do you live in that tree?"

... "No, it really wouldn't be very comfortable."
(What do I look like, a dryad? Shorts and t-shirt doesn't seem very dryad-like...)

Same guy: "Are you visiting someone? Birds, or squirrels, maybe?"

*blink* "No, just sitting here and looking around."
(and petting the bark, and hugging the tree, and watching the sunlight reflect off the leaves, and other such things...)

Later, while climbing down...

Same guy: "Do you need help getting down?"

"Um, no. All set!" (meanwhile, thinking "Don't you think that if I can get up here, I can get back down again?")

The child: "Why are you in that tree?"

"Because I like climbing trees."

The child again: "Really? I'm not allowed to climb trees yet, I'm only five."

My first thought was that he'd never thought to ask, and my second was that if he was able to climb the tree, he was probably old enough, with a bit of warning about testing branch strength first.

Strange. Although, truthfully, it was amazing enough that either of them _noticed_. Most people don't look up. Not that I was really all that far up. And not that they were all that far away when they saw me.

Strange conversations...

An older gentleman, to a child: "Look, there's a girl in that tree!"

Same guy, to me: "Do you live in that tree?"

... "No, it really wouldn't be very comfortable."
(What do I look like, a dryad? Shorts and t-shirt doesn't seem very dryad-like...)

Same guy: "Are you visiting someone? Birds, or squirrels, maybe?"

*blink* "No, just sitting here and looking around."
(and petting the bark, and hugging the tree, and watching the sunlight reflect off the leaves, and other such things...)

Later, while climbing down...

Same guy: "Do you need help getting down?"

"Um, no. All set!" (meanwhile, thinking "Don't you think that if I can get up here, I can get back down again?")

The child: "Why are you in that tree?"

"Because I like climbing trees."

The child again: "Really? I'm not allowed to climb trees yet, I'm only five."

My first thought was that he'd never thought to ask, and my second was that if he was able to climb the tree, he was probably old enough, with a bit of warning about testing branch strength first.

Strange. Although, truthfully, it was amazing enough that either of them _noticed_. Most people don't look up. Not that I was really all that far up. And not that they were all that far away when they saw me.