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𝐣𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 (ex_forestry998) wrote in thedisplaced,
@ 2018-04-01 21:26:00

Entry tags:

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

“The 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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	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? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	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? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	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. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	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. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_forestry998 2018-04-02 02:30 am UTC (link)
	I'll remember that. That's what I said, almost exactly. I won one of them. They put me in another. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wanttakehave 2018-04-02 02:34 am UTC (link)
	I have a list. I had a lot of time on my hands. Damn. One is bad enough, but two? What the hell kind of government just lets people get away with doing that to kids? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_forestry998 2018-04-02 02:39 am UTC (link)
	Give me the list sometime. The kind of government you overthrow. I'm Johanna, by the way. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wanttakehave 2018-04-02 02:40 am UTC (link)
	Will do. Yeah. That sounds about right. Faith. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_forestry998 2018-04-02 02:47 am UTC (link)
	We did, too. Your name is Faith? Everyone I know has a name that means something and I got stuck with Johanna. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wanttakehave 2018-04-02 02:50 am UTC (link)
	Good. Yup. Don't think my parents meant anything deep and meaningful when they picked it, but it is. Johanna's a pretty name, though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_forestry998 2018-04-02 02:53 am UTC (link)
	You think so? It's Latin, a language no one speaks anymore. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wanttakehave 2018-04-02 03:00 am UTC (link)
	I think so. Just because no one speaks it anymore doesn't mean that it's still not a nice name. Honestly, a lot of the time when I was younger, I wished I had a more normal name. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_forestry998 2018-04-02 03:11 am UTC (link)
	My mentor in the fight-to-the-death thing was named Blight. It's something that affects trees and makes them die. We lived in an area with lots of trees. I think his parents hated him. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wanttakehave 2018-04-02 02:29 pm UTC (link)
	Or maybe his parents hated trees? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_forestry998 2018-04-02 07:01 pm UTC (link)
	Not like they could pick up and leave. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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