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Dorian Gray ([info]hedonism) wrote in [info]compass_network,
@ 2013-06-18 10:02:00

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"How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

~Vonnegut; Slaughterhouse-Five


So there is a bookstore. I love books, I especially love the self-help books in this particular place. Though I must say, my imagination has always served me up with the -- ah, shall we say, finest forms of assistance?

Mm.

I found a copy of Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle which I'm keeping, and Slaughterhouse-Five which I'm reading. I also found a few volumes of Iron Man comic books, which I've taken all the copies of and hidden.

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[info]doriangray
2013-06-18 03:02 pm UTC (link)
What makes me special? Just about everything.

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[info]fuckitybye
2013-06-18 03:03 pm UTC (link)
Uh huh.

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[info]hedonism
2013-06-18 03:14 pm UTC (link)
Do you know who Oscar Wilde is?

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[info]fuckitybye
2013-06-18 03:17 pm UTC (link)
I do, yes. Is this a pop quiz?

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[info]hedonism
2013-06-18 03:19 pm UTC (link)
Well darling, I'm his Magnum opus.

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[info]fuckitybye
2013-06-18 03:21 pm UTC (link)
So? Is that meant to impress me? We're all from books here, darling. Fucking- Jay Gatsby is here! And half of the Tolkien creations. It doesn't make you special.

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[info]hedonism
2013-06-18 03:24 pm UTC (link)
Gatsby? Oh, that bitch doesn't have anything on me.

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[info]fuckitybye
2013-06-18 03:25 pm UTC (link)
Is your painting here?

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[info]hedonism
2013-06-18 03:26 pm UTC (link)
No, it isn't, it's in New York being guarded by Captain America.

At least I had the decency to give my own narrative in my book, I didn't need someone else to do it for me.

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[info]fuckitybye
2013-06-18 03:28 pm UTC (link)
Well, that's... different.

Yeah? Found your a bit fucking boring, to be honest. Prefer his plays.

Doesn't it give you a bit of an existential crisis? Being Wilde's creation and all that?

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(no subject) - [info]hedonism, 2013-06-18 03:30 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]fuckitybye, 2013-06-18 03:31 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]hedonism, 2013-06-18 03:33 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]fuckitybye, 2013-06-18 03:35 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]hedonism, 2013-06-18 03:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]fuckitybye, 2013-06-18 03:38 pm UTC

[info]_eames
2013-06-18 06:37 pm UTC (link)
It's cute that you think you're such a special snowflake.

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[info]hedonism
2013-06-18 06:40 pm UTC (link)
Are you stupid? You can say, I'll fuck you anyway.

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[info]_eames
2013-06-18 06:41 pm UTC (link)
That's ever so accommodating of you! What a generous spirit.

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[info]hedonism
2013-06-18 06:47 pm UTC (link)
I do try my best.

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[info]tonystark
2013-06-18 06:43 pm UTC (link)
I mean, he is immortal.

That's fairly special.

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[info]_eames
2013-06-18 06:49 pm UTC (link)
I think that withered dead body at the end of his book says otherwise.

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[info]tonystark
2013-06-18 06:52 pm UTC (link)
He's still more immortal than most.

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[info]_eames
2013-06-18 06:56 pm UTC (link)
Whilst this is certainly true, I don't hear any of the rest of them shouting about their origins and believing that makes them better than the rest of us.

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[info]hedonism
2013-06-18 07:01 pm UTC (link)
I wasn't.

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[info]tonystark
2013-06-18 07:07 pm UTC (link)
If that's what he were saying, then you'd have every right to get smart with him. But that wasn't really what he said. Someone who was being a dick asked Dorian, "What makes you so special?" So he responded with a list. He wasn't bragging -- or he didn't interject to do so -- he was answering a question. In... typical Wildian form.

Ultimately, he was just trying to explain why it was that he dealt with a specific situation in the way that he did.

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[info]_eames
2013-06-18 07:30 pm UTC (link)
Well actually he answered 'what makes you so special?' with 'I'm Oscar Wilde's Magnum opus.' And then went on to claim that anyone who didn't agree that his book was a literary masterpiece was illiterate.

I'm sorry, I must have misinterpreted that as bragging.

Back to my main point, though, it doesn't make him any better than the rest of us. He's still a character from a book. Dorian fucking Grey or not.

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(no subject) - [info]hedonism, 2013-06-18 07:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]_eames, 2013-06-18 07:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]tonystark, 2013-06-18 07:50 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]fuckitybye, 2013-06-18 10:05 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]tonystark, 2013-06-18 10:12 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]fuckitybye, 2013-06-18 10:15 pm UTC
Tony | Dorian - [info]hedonism, 2013-06-18 10:27 pm UTC
Tony | Dorian - [info]tonystark, 2013-06-18 10:42 pm UTC
Tony | Dorian - [info]hedonism, 2013-06-18 10:42 pm UTC
Tony | Dorian - [info]tonystark, 2013-06-18 10:50 pm UTC
Tony | Dorian - [info]hedonism, 2013-06-18 11:53 pm UTC
Tony | Dorian - [info]tonystark, 2013-06-18 11:54 pm UTC
Tony | Dorian - [info]hedonism, 2013-06-18 11:58 pm UTC
Tony | Dorian - [info]tonystark, 2013-06-19 12:24 am UTC
Tony | Dorian - [info]hedonism, 2013-06-19 12:25 am UTC
Tony | Dorian - [info]tonystark, 2013-06-19 12:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]hedonism, 2013-06-18 10:25 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]fuckitybye, 2013-06-18 10:33 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]hedonism, 2013-06-18 10:36 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]fuckitybye, 2013-06-18 10:38 pm UTC
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[info]hedonism
2013-06-18 06:54 pm UTC (link)
Would you like to try to kill me? Because by all means, take your best shot.

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[info]_eames
2013-06-18 06:56 pm UTC (link)
Not particularly, no.

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[info]hedonism
2013-06-18 07:00 pm UTC (link)
If you don't want to take the ride, darling, don't buy a ticket.

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[info]_eames
2013-06-18 07:24 pm UTC (link)
...if I don't want to try and kill you I shouldn't talk to you?

Either that or you're implying that I've somehow come out on the bottom- which is inaccurate.

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(no subject) - [info]hedonism, 2013-06-18 07:26 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]_eames, 2013-06-18 07:31 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]hedonism, 2013-06-18 07:33 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]_eames, 2013-06-18 07:34 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]hedonism, 2013-06-18 07:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]_eames, 2013-06-18 07:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]hedonism, 2013-06-18 07:55 pm UTC

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