You know, as someone who's met none of y'all in real life, it's great fun reading Livejournals without being quite aware how everyone knows each other and having to work everything out based on Random Details.

Heh. rushthatspeaks and I will be celebrating our second anniversary on Monday. They are in fact the person who showed me The Pillow Book, although in all fairness they didn't think they needed to warn me about the porn-ness: my response to it was one of the early indications that maybe we should be dating. It still took both of us months to notice.

It's like what C.S. Lewis said about reading Grimm in German without looking anything up, and having to guess what it was that the old woman gave to the prince that he afterwards lost in the wood.

That could produce some wonderful fairy tales.