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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2011-10-18 08:24 pm
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Silence will make us pay for our sleep

I slept for a few minutes on the bus to Plymouth. I didn't really dream, but I woke with the line in my head: "But death had its teeth in her wrist already." This is possibly from telling [livejournal.com profile] rushthatspeaks about the graffito of the wolf devouring the sun, which someone has been updating since we first saw it in early September. (I am waiting to see if by midwinter the sun will be gone entirely. It will become officially the best piece of graffiti, ancient or modern, I have ever seen if so.) Possibly it's for other reasons. Unless it turns out a poem, I'm not sure I appreciate it either way. I'm going to distract myself by reading about An-sky. I still haven't gotten used to the idea of wireless on a bus.
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gwynnega: (lordpeter mswyrr)

[personal profile] gwynnega 2011-10-19 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
I usually associate teeth in wrists with vampires...maybe because on Dark Shadows, Barnabas Collins was only allowed to bite Willie Loomis on the wrist, never on the neck (he only got to bite women's necks!).

In any case, it seems like a good line for a poem.
sovay: (Sovay: David Owen)

[personal profile] sovay 2011-10-22 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
I usually associate teeth in wrists with vampires...maybe because on Dark Shadows, Barnabas Collins was only allowed to bite Willie Loomis on the wrist, never on the neck (he only got to bite women's necks!).

This was definitely wolf-imagery, but I have wrist-associations with vampires as well: I blame them on Tanith Lee's "Stained with Crimson" (The Book of the Damned).

[identity profile] csecooney.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I HOPE it turns into a poem!
sovay: (Haruspex: Autumn War)

[personal profile] sovay 2011-10-22 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I HOPE it turns into a poem!

I'll see what I can do!

[identity profile] cucumberseed.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
I flashed to your earlier account of the graffito before I read that was where you were bound. Pulling her down. If you can find more of this, I would be much obliged.
sovay: (Sovay: David Owen)

[personal profile] sovay 2011-10-22 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
If you can find more of this, I would be much obliged.

Thank you. I need to start really sleeping again, but I hope.

[identity profile] cucumberseed.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
As do I.

[identity profile] teenybuffalo.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Can I have a photo of the painting, or at least a set of walking directions where to find it? Cause I need to see this.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-10-22 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Can I have a photo of the painting, or at least a set of walking directions where to find it?

It's on a cross-street near Inman Square; we took terrible cellphone pictures in September, but I'll upload those only if I can't go back with a camera and capture the latest iteration before it's rained off or altered again.

[identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Sleep gave you a good line. Write from it.

The graffito needs to be time-lapse video.

I still haven't gotten used to the idea of wireless on a bus.

Best invention ever. Amtrak has promised it, but so far not obliged.

Nine
sovay: (Rotwang)

[personal profile] sovay 2011-10-22 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Best invention ever. Amtrak has promised it, but so far not obliged.

Honestly, I dislike it: I realize it is a natural consequence of living in the future, but there is also a strong component of my brain that thinks when you're traveling, you're traveling, and you don't necessarily want to be found.

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
That's a lovely line, and I hope it leads to a poem.

This graffito sounds even more marvelous than I'd thought it. I'd love to see a photograph, if you get the chance some time.

I hope you had/are having/will have a wonderful time in Plymouth.

Wireless on a bus sounds nice--I keep hoping MetroNorth will get round to putting it on the trains.
sovay: (Morell: quizzical)

[personal profile] sovay 2011-10-22 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
I hope you had/are having/will have a wonderful time in Plymouth.

There was a lot of unpacking. At least I got to see the stars.

[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
Love the line - await the sequel!
sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey)

[personal profile] sovay 2011-10-22 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Love the line - await the sequel!

Thank you! Unfortunately, I think the sequel (cf. today's post that isn't about sifrei Torah and Nelson) belonged to a different poem!
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sovay: (Psholtii: in a bad mood)

[personal profile] sovay 2011-10-22 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, is the graffito on Flickr or something?

No; all I have is a very low-res cellphone photo. I'll upload it if I can't get anything better.

[identity profile] lady-tigerfish.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I add my voice to the chorus of those who'd love to see a picture of this graffito.
sovay: (I Claudius)

[personal profile] sovay 2011-10-22 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
I add my voice to the chorus of those who'd love to see a picture of this graffito.

So noted!

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
It could be a good poem.

sovay: (Sovay: David Owen)

[personal profile] sovay 2011-10-22 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
It could be a good poem.

Thank you. I'll try.
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