The silver lips of lilies virginal,
The full deep bosom of the enchanted rose
Please less than flowers glass-hid from frost and snows
For whom an alien heat makes festival.
Theodore Wratislaw, excerpt from 'Hothouse Flowers'
What a dodgy little poem it is. Good though, especially the 'alien heat makes festival' bit, very sinister. Not much in the update today. Lost to Chris Gorham at Go which made him feel good and me feel indifferent, so I suppose it was a positive thing to have done. My early play was bad, my later play not too bad at all really. The result? Eight and a half moku win for Chris. Negates my three-nil thrashing of Oliver earlier in the day.
I note that both Davy-D and Aaron have started posting slavish imitations of my 'Chronicles of the Committi' to their web-logs. It's nice to exert such undue influence over the addled minds of the young, but one wonders whether a pastiche of a pastiche isn't going to be getting a little thin on the ground. In any case, it's of little import.
In other news: I want my road trip. I can't wait for the golden time to come when exams are over, assessment is over, and I can kick back for a few hours to some hypnotic discretionary media, by which I don't mean drugs.
I watched the first seven episodes of Rurouni Kenshin the other day. It wasn't too bad I suppose. I'd seen the dubbed animated movie 'Samurai X' some time last year, and thought it was fairly crap. Although unlike some I had minimal difficulty working out that Kenshin was supposed to be a man. One thing about the episodes of Kenshin that I saw that I thought was a tad problematic was Kenshin's total superiority to almost all of his opponents. When he can just walk into a room containing any number of people and flatten them all without breaking a sweat it takes some of the suspense out of things. Episode seven managed to improve on this by putting in a serious villain. As for the humour? Predictable but cute. I smiled a few times.
People can be so silly on occasion. Even more ludicrous than mistaking Kenshin for a woman is thinking that of Sai from Hikaru No Go. One's explicitly told he is a man when the character is introduced for goodness' sake. Speaking of HNG judging by the latest chapter it looks like Shindo might be about to become a pro at Waya's expense. This'd be a little tragic since Waya is the coolest character in the whole storyline. It'd be better if Isumi-san were to lose out. Meanwhile we all await Ochi's loss at Shindo's hands in the final round of the pro exam. I long for the conquest of that snivelling hypocrite!
The full deep bosom of the enchanted rose
Please less than flowers glass-hid from frost and snows
For whom an alien heat makes festival.
Theodore Wratislaw, excerpt from 'Hothouse Flowers'
What a dodgy little poem it is. Good though, especially the 'alien heat makes festival' bit, very sinister. Not much in the update today. Lost to Chris Gorham at Go which made him feel good and me feel indifferent, so I suppose it was a positive thing to have done. My early play was bad, my later play not too bad at all really. The result? Eight and a half moku win for Chris. Negates my three-nil thrashing of Oliver earlier in the day.
I note that both Davy-D and Aaron have started posting slavish imitations of my 'Chronicles of the Committi' to their web-logs. It's nice to exert such undue influence over the addled minds of the young, but one wonders whether a pastiche of a pastiche isn't going to be getting a little thin on the ground. In any case, it's of little import.
In other news: I want my road trip. I can't wait for the golden time to come when exams are over, assessment is over, and I can kick back for a few hours to some hypnotic discretionary media, by which I don't mean drugs.
I watched the first seven episodes of Rurouni Kenshin the other day. It wasn't too bad I suppose. I'd seen the dubbed animated movie 'Samurai X' some time last year, and thought it was fairly crap. Although unlike some I had minimal difficulty working out that Kenshin was supposed to be a man. One thing about the episodes of Kenshin that I saw that I thought was a tad problematic was Kenshin's total superiority to almost all of his opponents. When he can just walk into a room containing any number of people and flatten them all without breaking a sweat it takes some of the suspense out of things. Episode seven managed to improve on this by putting in a serious villain. As for the humour? Predictable but cute. I smiled a few times.
People can be so silly on occasion. Even more ludicrous than mistaking Kenshin for a woman is thinking that of Sai from Hikaru No Go. One's explicitly told he is a man when the character is introduced for goodness' sake. Speaking of HNG judging by the latest chapter it looks like Shindo might be about to become a pro at Waya's expense. This'd be a little tragic since Waya is the coolest character in the whole storyline. It'd be better if Isumi-san were to lose out. Meanwhile we all await Ochi's loss at Shindo's hands in the final round of the pro exam. I long for the conquest of that snivelling hypocrite!
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