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Tweak says, "Yes! Scotland 2014"

daniel webster (occupation: recluse) (ex_published349) wrote in doors,
@ 2012-08-02 20:35:00

Entry tags:

beast, christine daae, harry osborn, prince charming, ravenna, theon greyjoy

[Public.]
Badminton? Really? This is news?

[Sam A./Christine]

White pawn to A4.

[This is what we use for chess, if you're curious.]

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	Re: Christine D/Daniel W jukejoint 2012-08-03 05:46 am UTC (link)
	B5 → C4. (Takes Bishop) A life can be filled with many things and still be empty. I wake every morning, and I have not a moment to myself until very late in the evening, and yet I would say this was an empty life. Likewise, monsieur, I think an empty life can be very full, if the circumstances are correct. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W ex_published349 2012-08-03 05:48 am UTC (link)
	E5 to F6 (takes knight.) You are simply playing with the definitions. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W jukejoint 2012-08-03 06:00 am UTC (link)
	E7 → E6. Comment? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W ex_published349 2012-08-03 06:02 am UTC (link)
	Queen to H7. (takes pawn.) You are. Nothing can be both filled and empty. Either you are fulfilled, or you are not. [He translates--absolutely fluently--into French.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W jukejoint 2012-08-03 06:13 am UTC (link)
	[While thinking about the move.] Life and self are not the same thing, monsieur. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W ex_published349 2012-08-03 06:14 am UTC (link)
	No? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W jukejoint 2012-08-03 06:16 am UTC (link)
	Life is a collection of actions, a series of events, oui? You can have more of them than fit in a day, and you can still be empty. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W ex_published349 2012-08-03 11:59 pm UTC (link)
	So your point is I can still be boring if I'm busy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W jukejoint 2012-08-04 12:41 am UTC (link)
	G8 → F8. You know this is not my point, monsieur. You are very good at twisting words. Do others realize you do it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W ex_published349 2012-08-04 12:45 am UTC (link)
	H7 to H6 (takes bishop). What is your point, then? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W jukejoint 2012-08-04 01:12 am UTC (link)
	C4 → D3. You do not answer. If I tell you of my experience with the memories, will you do the same? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W ex_published349 2012-08-04 01:16 am UTC (link)
	Rook takes Pawn at D3. No, they don't realize it. I still want to know what your point is. [...] I will give you one, if you do. One. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Christine D/Daniel W

jukejoint
2012-08-04 01:25 am UTC (link)

B7 → G2.

You say your days are empty, and so you are boring. I contend you are not boring, despite your empty days. Bored, perhaps, oui? I see everyone speaking to you here. People do not speak with boring men thus. It is one of the good things about being a ruined woman, that I may speak my mind.

[...] Will you make me go first? I suspect you would say you are no gentleman, and as I am no lady, the rules of polite society do not apply.

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Re: Christine D/Daniel W

ex_published349
2012-08-04 01:44 am UTC (link)

F4 to F5.

They speak to me of nothing of importance. It entertains me, for a time. It is a shame that women must be ruined to speak their minds, but men are expected to be ruined to begin with. If it were the reverse, we might learn interesting things.

You are expecting me to say no, I will go first to keep from troubling you, but that is not what I am going to do.

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	Re: Christine D/Daniel W jukejoint 2012-08-04 02:29 am UTC (link)
	G2 → E4. You mean to say it is not this way in your time? I believed there was great equality. No, Daniel, I do not expect you to do anything to keep from troubling me. I have not known you long, but I know you well enough not to expect that from you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W ex_published349 2012-08-04 02:33 am UTC (link)
	D3 to D4. Perhaps not as equal as we would like to believe, but no, that is not what I meant to say. I meant in your time, not mine. If I trouble you, you have much bigger problems than my commentary. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W jukejoint 2012-08-04 02:55 am UTC (link)
	E4 → F5. You like to do that. To say something, like that you would offer to go first to keep from troubling me, and then turn it around to make it seem I mentioned being troubled first. You do not trouble me, Daniel. I have known far more troubling men than you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W ex_published349 2012-08-04 02:59 am UTC (link)
	White Queen to G7. [He reflects, looks back.] Yes, you mentioned your troubling men before. Are they easier to deal with now? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W jukejoint 2012-08-04 03:23 am UTC (link)
	[As she considers.] Men are interesting, monsieur. Once there is no battle, they lose interest. Or perhaps it is only that the battle was more interesting than the city they both wished to claim. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W ex_published349 2012-08-04 03:26 am UTC (link)
	That is very true. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W jukejoint 2012-08-04 03:33 am UTC (link)
	B8 → C6. I would argue this is only true mainly of your sex. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W ex_published349 2012-08-04 03:41 am UTC (link)
	[While thinking.] I do not disagree. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W jukejoint 2012-08-04 03:46 am UTC (link)
	You will not champion your sex, monsieur? I saw many memories. I would say over a dozen, and most of them were not pleasant. In only telling you one, then the choice I make says something of me, does it not? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Christine D/Daniel W ex_published349 2012-08-04 03:54 am UTC (link)
	C1 to H6. [English again.] I am no champion of any kind, you will be delighted to learn. We did not have so many. I will attempt not to draw conclusions, should you wish it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Christine D/Daniel W

jukejoint
2012-08-04 04:06 am UTC (link)

[As she tries to find a way out of the trap.] Very good move, monsieur.

You will judge and simply not tell me. A zebra cannot change its stripes. I will refrain from telling you of your own avoidance of a funeral, oui?

[A pause and press of her pen's tip as she considers.] I saw a man and a woman. They lived together, and I saw this through the eyes of the man. He was numb, and she was leaving him, but he did not care. I asked myself, why was he with her? In your time, there is no expectation of marriage. Why live with someone if you do not care? Laziness, perhaps? It was the best I could determine. No need to look for someone for intimacy, but why engage in intimacy at all without any level of desire or passion? Or have things changed so much in the future that these things no longer matter?