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[revena]

Lunch with ziniicecream was wonderful. Work sucked. But the martial arts class tonight went pretty well. I didn't get any real exercise, but I worked with a very nice new student, who seems to be a fast learner, and then I got to teach one of my very favorite forms to one of my very favorite blue belts. I probably shouldn't have favorite students, but I definitely do. They're the ones who don't make faces at themselves in the mirror, or ask me repeatedly when class is going to be over. A basic respect for the concept of hierarchy is also very nice.

After class, Jimmy and I had some nice couple time, followed by some pretty decent leftovers for dinner. And then I had about seven conversations (all at once, and overlapping, and with pauses in between, too) with kphoebe, who is fast becoming one of my favorite persons with whom to speak on AIM. Seriously. Feminism, fanfic, chocolate, writing... what -can't- this woman speak about in an entertaining and engaging fashion?

Anyway, one of the things that came up when we were talking about writing was favorite lines. You know, the line in something you've written that still totally haunts you, and which you could recite at the drop of a hat? Or the line in a book you read something like -ten years ago- that you still actively think about, sometimes. Maybe you can even remember exactly what it looked like on the page, exactly how it made you feel. There are certain groups of words with amazing power, really.

The line that I've written which affected me the most, and still totally grips me, was this one, from "The Shape of Him":

"When you spend every waking moment watching someone else’s back, you learn to like the shape of it. And Emlyn’s back, after all, is more shapely than most."

A line (or lines) from someone else's work that I've never been able to forget or ignore is the following, from Sheri S. Tepper's _The Gate to Women's Country_:

Achilles (Shaking his head, still weeping) I ask you yet again, Agamemnon's daughter. What's it like, this Hades?
Iphigenia What's Hades like?
Like dream without waking. Like carrying water in a sieve. Like coming into harbor after storm. Barren harbor where the empty river runs through an endless desert into the sea. Where all the burdens have been taken away.
You'll understand when you come there at last, Achilles...
Hades is Women's Country.

It's quite a bit more powerful in the context of the novel, of course, but perhaps you'll get the idea.

What are some of your lines, from something you've written, or something you've read?

In completely unrelated news, they're playing the Star Wars trilogy back-to-back-to-back at Gallagher this week. I am so going on Friday. Anyone wanna join me?

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