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𝐣𝐨𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 ([info]ex_forestry998) wrote in [info]thedisplaced,
@ 2018-04-01 21:26:00

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Entry tags:annie cresta (au), elektra natchios (mcu), faith lehane, johanna mason (au), john murphy, raven reyes

β€œThe trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”


I think this book is trying to tell me being happy isn't actually bullshit?

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[info]wanttakehave
2018-04-02 01:52 am UTC (link)
Is it one of those self help books? Those tend to do that a lot.

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[info]ex_forestry998
2018-04-02 01:54 am UTC (link)
It's not a self-help book. It's a short story.

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[info]wanttakehave
2018-04-02 02:02 am UTC (link)
Sorry. It sounded like it might be. What book is it from?

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[info]ex_forestry998
2018-04-02 02:05 am UTC (link)
I usually read non-fiction but this was short, so.

It's called "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omela" and it's about a festival that goes on only if one kid is kept in a terrible condition. Reminds me of my home, only it was all the kids and everyone was poor? So maybe not really?

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[info]wanttakehave
2018-04-02 02:10 am UTC (link)
I'm not a big reader, but I ended up reading a lot of classic literature when I was in prison.

Huh. That sounds really shitty. And you had to deal with something like that back where you're from?

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[info]ex_forestry998
2018-04-02 02:14 am UTC (link)
I'm going to start on the classics, so I can catch up.

It wasn't just one kid. They had a lottery. One boy, one girl would win. When you won, you had the honor of fighting to the death.

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[info]wanttakehave
2018-04-02 02:26 am UTC (link)
Dickens is pretty good. Tolstoy is pretty heavy, but worth looking into.

Jesus Christ. That's awful. I'm sorry if you had to go through that. That's one surefire way to mess a kid up for life.

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(no subject) - [info]ex_forestry998, 2018-04-02 02:30 am UTC
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[info]uprise
2018-04-02 02:29 am UTC (link)
I don't know. I guess.

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[info]ex_forestry998
2018-04-02 02:31 am UTC (link)
Or that it's not more beautiful or more interesting if you're fucked up and evil.

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[info]uprise
2018-04-02 02:34 am UTC (link)
Sometimes you're just now allowed to be happy. I don't think people choose to not be happy.

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[info]ex_forestry998
2018-04-02 02:38 am UTC (link)
"...considering happiness as something rather stupid..."

That's what I'm focused on. Like when you see a couple together and you're like 'god they're dumb."

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[info]uprise
2018-04-02 02:43 am UTC (link)
Oh. I think that all the damn time.

Like sharing your red jelly beans with someone. Dumb.

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[info]ex_forestry998
2018-04-02 02:48 am UTC (link)
I used to think that about a certain couple I know.

The red ones are the best.

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[info]uprise
2018-04-02 02:49 am UTC (link)
And they're still lame.

Purple ones are superior and I ain't sharing.

Maybe I will. I'll think about it.

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[info]odetolove
2018-04-02 04:31 am UTC (link)
You're talking about me and Finnick, aren't you?

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[info]madseasons
2018-04-02 05:07 am UTC (link)
Evidently there is beauty in happiness.

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[info]ex_forestry998
2018-04-02 05:10 am UTC (link)
I'm looking for it.

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[info]madseasons
2018-04-02 05:19 am UTC (link)
Part of what makes it beautiful is how elusive it is, I suppose.

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[info]ex_forestry998
2018-04-02 05:30 am UTC (link)
Get out of here with your logic.

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[info]mechabadass
2018-04-02 01:28 pm UTC (link)
"...boredom of pain"

Whoever wrote that hasn't gone through chronic pain before. It's a bitch.

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[info]ex_forestry998
2018-04-02 07:00 pm UTC (link)
I don't think they mean that kind of pain, Raven. I think they mean the pain in your mind.

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[info]mechabadass
2018-04-02 07:04 pm UTC (link)
That shouldn't be so easily negated either.

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[info]ex_forestry998
2018-04-02 07:06 pm UTC (link)
I think you're missing the point.

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[info]mechabadass
2018-04-02 07:07 pm UTC (link)
Which is?

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[info]ex_forestry998
2018-04-02 07:11 pm UTC (link)
You can't go anywhere when you're in pain. You're stuck there, in the pain. It gets boring.

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