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| User: | belmanoir (34232) elusive heroine of the baroque
decadent but practical: the ideal modern woman |
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| Name: | belmanoir | |||||||||
| Location: | Seattle, Washington, United States | |||||||||
| Bio: | Simply a girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. The subtitle of this journal is from something my friend Paul actually said about me on AIM. Best compliment ever, no? Here's a poem for you. Something about it really speaks to me and to why I like the phrase "elusive heroine of the baroque" so much, especially the bits about "Guard and gild what's common" and our "gay-pocked and potsherd world." Objects, by Richard Wilbur Meridians are a net Which catches nothing; that sea-scampering bird The gull, though shores lapse every side from sight, can yet Sense him to land, but Hanno had not heard Hesperidean song, Had he not gone by watchful periploi: Chalk rocks, and isles like beasts, and mountain stains along The water-hem, calmed him at last nearby The clear high hidden chant Blown from the spellbound coast, where under drifts Of sunlight, under plated leaves, they guard the plant By praising it. Among the wedding gifts Of Herë, were a set Of golden McIntoshes, from the Greek Imagination. Guard and gild what's common, and forget Uses and prices and names; have objects speak. There's classic and there's quaint, And then there is that devout intransitive eye Of Pieter de Hooch: see feinting from his plot of paint The trench of light on board, the much-mended dry Courtyard wall of brick, And sun submerged in beer, and streaming in glasses, The weave of a sleeve, the careful and undulant tile. A quick Change of the eye and all this calmly passes Into a day, into magic. For is there any end to true textures, to true Integuments; do they ever desist from tacit, tragic Fading away? O maculate, cracked, askew Gay-pocked and potsherd world I voyage, where in every tangible tree I see afloat among the leaves, all calm and curled, The Cheshire smile which sets me fearfully free. | |||||||||
| Memories: | 2 entries | |||||||||
| Interests: | 113: alexandre dumas, amanda/henry, amateur cracksmen, anarchosyndicalism, andrei rublev, anti-racism, art, barenaked ladies, basil rathbone, betty/henry, blackadder, buffy, bunny/raffles, chick tracts, childermass/vinculus, chloe sullivan, clex, cooking, daphne du maurier, daria, diana wynne jones, dinocomics, discworld, dollhouses, dostoyevsky, drawing, dresden files, eisenstein, enjolras, false bravado, fanfic, feminism, firefly, folk music, french, galley slaves, geekiness, georgette heyer, girl sleuths, guys with glasses, harpies, harriet the spy, harry potter, harry/bob, harry/draco, harry/marcone, historical accuracy, historical fiction, hitler/churchill, holmes/watson, hrothbert of bainbridge, icons, jane eyre, jennifer crusie, jewellry, jewish food, johnny depp, judith merkle riley, le morte d'arthur, logan/veronica, lord peter wimsey, loretta chase, maleficent, marcus didius falco, math, munch, neil gaiman, neverwhere, notes from underground, opera, pirates, propaganda, raffles/bunny, regency romance, relic hunter, revolutionary girl utena, russian, sci-fi/fantasy, seventh seal rip-offs, shakespeare, shakira, shoulders, sirius/lupin, slash, smallville, snupin, socialism, spike/angel, st. augustine, stephen colbert, swordspoint, tam lin retellings, tarkovsky, temeraire, the baroque, the black moth, the colbert report, the oracle glass, the scarlet pimpernel, the three musketeers, thrift stores, thursday next, tristram/palomides, ugly betty, unions, urban fantasy, veronica mars, vicky bliss, wizards named harry, writing, xander/spike, xkcd, young adult lit | |||||||||
| Schools: | None listed | |||||||||
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| Friend of: | 3: norwich36, scribblinlenore, vjanssen | |||||||||
| Member of: | 4: 07refugees, bymoonlight, discworld, lupin_snape | |||||||||
| Account type: | Free Patient | |||||||||
