Introductory post

[foudebassan]

(post-dated comment: the real date is January 23rd, 2007.)

This is a (mostly) friends-only journal.

(cue balloons of various colours and sparkly thingies to sound less unfriendly).

My fics are posted publicly, but I am otherwise somewhat reluctant to expose what remains essentially a diary for the whole world to see. I you want to read it, friend me, comment here or on another one of the public posts and you will be added, one never has too many friends :)

Comments

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

it sounds like a quote from a song :)

[dream-labyrinth.livejournal.com]

*g*

It could be. Maybe I should check, I might be quoting something here and don't even know it.

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

Or you could pretend you're quoting something obscure and semi-academic to sound superior ;-)

[dream-labyrinth.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I have a lot of practice with that!

It sounds especially superiour if you quote in a foreign language and then say that the translation doesn't work too well because it's an idiom. Impresses people like whoa...

*g*

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

Or - better still - just insert foreign words when you speak, it contributes to the Verfremdungseffekt between you and the listeners, thus establishing, perhaps, an air of déjà vu. The hoi polloi will then stand in awe... ;-D

[dream-labyrinth.livejournal.com]

Very good!

Such a pity, though, that my ineptitude of inventing suitably cosmopolitan rejoinders in a timely fashion all too often interferes with my desire to voice my opinion of my fellow people in appropriate terms.

A comeback simply does not have the desired cutting edge if it's delayed by hours.

*sigh*

I should borrow my brother's mind. He at least can remember fitting Latin epigrams for most situations in life, even if he doesn't create them himself.
Martial can be quite to the point, even several centuries after his demise.

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

And he also gives an astonishing number of synonyms for "penis", if memory serves :D

May I friend you? We seem to have the same literary references...

[dream-labyrinth.livejournal.com]

Of course, I'll friend you back!

Though I must warn you, my journal consists mostly of ramblings about work with very little literary value...

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

Mine's made of ramblings about life in general with similarily little literary value, so we should get on :D