tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post7968128706643436886..comments2024-03-18T15:17:26.003-05:00Comments on l'astronave: Take Me Out to Tea, VirgilFrescahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-26460210114476130902008-11-21T12:32:00.000-06:002008-11-21T12:32:00.000-06:00Oh dear, stop! stop! No more wonderful ideas! But,...Oh dear, stop! stop! No more wonderful ideas! But, um, yeah, maybe we should make a Fly version...Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-37406955045017707032008-11-21T10:26:00.000-06:002008-11-21T10:26:00.000-06:00Of course your Virgil K/S is going to be another p...Of course your Virgil K/S is going to be another piece of "bloody genius"! And the sexy Bouguereau painting is a good fit with all the vampire movies opening lately.<BR/><BR/>But what really struck me was your insidious and sly insinuation of "the fly" into this blog that is seemingly about the classics and K/S. <BR/><BR/>I know that the repeated use of the phrase "tea, vicar?" came into your (our) lives after view Alexi Sayles' Merchant/Ivory version of "the fly"!<BR/><BR/>I think what you secretly want to do is include the fly in a K/S story...perhaps as a rival for someone's affection; perhaps as a Gorn replacement; perhaps in a three-way; perhaps as a butler serving tea... <BR/><BR/>If so, unleash this creative urge!<BR/><BR/>Or maybe it's just the subconscious calling of your own fly movie wanting not to be put on hold too long while you wrestle with K/S.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-31231240369714371602008-11-20T21:13:00.000-06:002008-11-20T21:13:00.000-06:00MOMO: Yeah, I have seen the ST "Sexy Back" --how d...MOMO: Yeah, I have seen the ST "Sexy Back" --how did you come to see it? Please don't stop passing along ST references/links: I know I have not seen them all and I don't want to miss any!<BR/><BR/>"Ablative absolute"! I'd forgotten that! I like "future imperfect" too! Grammar is so evocative, eh? : )<BR/><BR/>Translating Virgil's "Aeneid" line-by-line was very potent for me too, in fact, it was my first experience of translating real lit from another language, not just made up stuff. The night after we translated the Fall of Troy, I dreamt about fire and destruction. I realized I had never before read slowly enough to truly let the words sink into me--like, what was that ad where they dropped pearls one by one into a thick dishwashing liquid? like that.<BR/><BR/>LADY P: Musth! I never heard of that before. <BR/>You are a pearl of great price. <BR/><BR/>[Per WIKIPEDIA: Musth is a periodic condition in bull elephants, ... characterized by highly aggressive behaviour. It is accompanied by a significant rise in reproductive hormones ...]Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-4861232599317034472008-11-20T17:47:00.001-06:002008-11-20T17:47:00.001-06:00Golly gee, I love youse guys--all these great comm...Golly gee, I love youse guys--all these great comments! It's like a pile of presents!<BR/><BR/>MANFRED: I'm afraid the backstory is a boring story of listening to people expressing their scary xenophobia followed, unwisely, by balancing my checkbook. (Eeek!) Nothing so exotic as JRRT, though possibly as long.<BR/><BR/>Tea trays, hmmm... How might a nonsense K/S version go?<BR/>"Up above the world you fly,/ Like a tea-tray in the sky" --surely this is a proto-reference to a schuttlecraft???<BR/><BR/> Surely you know Bouguereau? Prime-time schlock--I love it!<BR/><BR/>JEN: *I* cried--well, got teary eyed--reading that. If only we could all live up to our own best ideals. Hell, if we could even remember we had 'em, that'd be a good start!<BR/>Thanks for wanting to see more--and so you shall! I am plugging along, founding my little empire of silly fanvids. It makes me so happy!<BR/><BR/>RUDY: Gemini and Scorpio--complete opposites, I believe... <BR/><BR/>OOpps--phone call I must take--more later.Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-74530752858727266582008-11-20T14:37:00.000-06:002008-11-20T14:37:00.000-06:00So even scorpios have linings of precious substanc...So even scorpios have linings of precious substance. I can't *WAIT* to see this vid. I'm practically in musth at the thought of it. And the word verification is "liabo" which my feverish eyes construed as "libido". I'll have some bromide in my tea, thanks, vicar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-58486273490048622572008-11-20T09:24:00.000-06:002008-11-20T09:24:00.000-06:00Wow, what an amazing image! I almost emailed you a...Wow, what an amazing image! I almost emailed you a mashup of K/S set to the Justin Timberlake song "Sexy Back" but I figured you must have already seen it. If not, it's an easy YouTube search away.<BR/><BR/>For my Comp Lit degree, I had to satsify a classics language reading requirement in either greek or latin. I chose latin and one of the courses I took was Virgil's Aeneid (because there was only one meter and I was afraid of Horace). I have very fond memories of translating line-by-line and then chatting with our professor over all the little details. If you asked him the right kind of question, he would launch into long, fascinating stories and we could kick back and not worry about being called on to provide our translations. Oh, we were bad. Of course I have forgotten most of my latin, but I still love to say "ablative absolute"!momohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12149328149132703479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-68730358416776982822008-11-20T08:58:00.000-06:002008-11-20T08:58:00.000-06:00Sorry about the unpleasantness... Scorpios... well...Sorry about the unpleasantness... Scorpios... well, I try not to speak of them as I don't want to attract their notice.<BR/><BR/>Your slash is awe-inspiring! Let the Scorpios and Sags do their worst, if this is one end result!Rudyinparishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13527306418916412817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-80455665156738159382008-11-20T08:49:00.000-06:002008-11-20T08:49:00.000-06:00Oh my, Virgil/Dante just became a lot less academi...Oh my, Virgil/Dante just became a lot less academic. ;D<BR/><BR/>Spock "wounded by all-pow'rful love" is a lovely image. I'm hoping to see more! *grins* There's something about seeing the "classics" of fandom tranformed into the classics of literature that delights me no end.<BR/><BR/>As a (long) side note, I went out to dinner tonight with various professors here--Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and French-Canadian. The elction came up as a topic, and I cringed, knowing the French-Canadian professor to be openly contemptuous of America. He spoke of his experiences in America fifty years ago, how his Japanese companion was told she couldn't go on a beach because she wasn't white, how he intervened and they allowed it but the day was ruined, she sat on the beach and wept. And he said, "This election is proof that America can change, that it still can the great country we always want it to be." And all the other professors nodded and said how impressive it was, how moving, and I was torn between deep pride and shame, unsure how much we deserved that but so glad to see it. I'm always amazed and humbled by how much people <I>want</I> to believe that the American Dream isn't a flase one, even the most jaded and cynical (and it's hard to get more jaded and cynical than this guy).<BR/><BR/>"I cried," said Dan, and the Chinese professor said, "You cried?" "We all cried, all of us in Canada," said the man who blocked my tenure promotion in part because I was American, and it was a very complicated and yet hopeful moment.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13923745480765984429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-86576953893868878732008-11-20T06:49:00.000-06:002008-11-20T06:49:00.000-06:00Uh-oh, there is a Silmarillion size epic backstory...Uh-oh, there is a Silmarillion size epic backstory here, is there not??<BR/><BR/>I hope the tea tray wasnt overturned....<BR/><BR/>Excellent picture, by the way...William-Adolphe Bouguereau eh? Time to get googling!ooooooooooooooooooooooooooohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15347076050510425951noreply@blogger.com