O amante smunta di morti

[sovay]

Dear brain. What is is about listening to Puccini's Turandot (1957, Maria Callas; Elizabeth Schwartzkopf; Eugenio Fernandi) and reading John Le Carré's The Perfect Spy before bed that leads you to dream about blond-haired boy whores and then bringing one of them to the tombs of my ancestors so that he (who was, really, only male about half the time) can stab with a rapier down into one of the unmarked graves? You do know that I don't have an ancestral cemetery? And that even if I did, I've kind of assumed it wouldn't produce malignant possessing spirits? I mean, I could be sympathetically biased, but still—and do I look like I have the money for a string of boy whores? No, I don't get it either. I'm going back to Lucan now. It's safer.

Comments

[xterminal.livejournal.com]

Well, it doesn't have to be a malignant possessing spirit. As you were describing it, I had assumed an oracular function of some sort.

[sovay]

As you were describing it, I had assumed an oracular function of some sort.

You know, I see no reason it couldn't have been both: an oracle that speaks through a person is all well and good, but it could really suck if the oracle then decides not to leave. Honestly I don't remember. But I remembered enough to wake up and think, "Huh?"

[farwing.livejournal.com]

Thank you for putting a smile on my face.

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

I don't have nearly enough dreams about boy-whores and tombs.

[sovay]

Always at your service. The anger management poetry put a smile on mine.

[chriscrick.livejournal.com]

You're not s'posed to sleep after Turandot. Isn't that the whole point of "Nessun dorma"?

[sovay]

Isn't that the whole point of "Nessun dorma"?

He tells her his name in the third act: it is legal to sleep after that.

[sovay]

You're welcome to some of mine . . .

(Icon yay.)

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

If you don't want the dream about drowned sailors and rough trade (circa last August, as I recall) then can I have it?

[sovay]

Go for it! I request only that you let me read the results. I can't imagine there's a monopoly on the subject, anyway.

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Agreed. But I'll take just hearing about sovay's--her depictions are better than my dreams ever could be anyway.

And as farwing says too--thanks for making me smile.

[zdenka]

*grin*

[sovay]

her depictions are better than my dreams ever could be anyway.

I don't believe that. Write me something with boy whores and graves!

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

You mean right now? Instead of all the chores I have to do? Well, if it's a command, I guess I must. :)

[sovay]

Instead of all the chores I have to do?

Chores, boy whores; chores, boy whores . . . It's a tough call, isn't it? ; )