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Regulus Black (leonineserpant) wrote in valarnet,
@ 2019-04-28 15:33:00

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anakin skywalker, regulus black, william laurence

[Screened Away From Minors]

I never realized how many quotes, songs, and things are taken completely out of context for weddings until I started looking up things for my own wedding. Today I saw a wine glass with an Oscar Wilde quote. "Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling".

I get that they probably were talking about getting on one knee and proposing.

But I'm 110% positive that was not what Oscar was referring to.

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	darkforcerising 2019-04-28 08:32 pm UTC (link)
	... I don't think those things are out of context at all. Innuendo is usually the point. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	leonineserpant 2019-04-28 09:17 pm UTC (link)
	I mean, if a straight couple wants to put a quote about oral on their glassware at an event there will be grandmothers and children, I'm not going to stop them. But I'm pretty sure that's also not what they were intending to do. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darkforcerising 2019-04-28 09:27 pm UTC (link)
	Ignorance is bliss but also a fooly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	leonineserpant 2019-04-30 06:23 am UTC (link)
	At least they'll have the most talked about table settings of anyone ever... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darkforcerising 2019-04-30 03:12 pm UTC (link)
	I don't think their guests would notice. Ignorance is also very contagious. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	leonineserpant 2019-04-30 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	At least any kids wouldn't have any idea what it was about. Except the teenagers, but they're a lost cause anyway. I remember that well. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darkforcerising 2019-05-01 02:29 am UTC (link)
	Laughing at innuendo as a teen was one of the not unfun parts of growing up. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	leonineserpant 2019-05-01 02:36 am UTC (link)
	Pretty sure that's a universal experience. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darkforcerising 2019-05-02 02:41 am UTC (link)
	I knew a few prudes. Every school had them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	leonineserpant 2019-05-02 02:48 am UTC (link)
	They would still pick up on it, though, just to call it out and feel morally superior. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darkforcerising 2019-05-02 02:51 am UTC (link)
	Is that "fun," though? That sounds like a lot of work, tbh. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	leonineserpant 2019-05-02 02:53 am UTC (link)
	For that kind of person? Yeah, trust me. For them that's fun. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darkforcerising 2019-05-02 02:59 am UTC (link)
	Their loss. Life is easier on the humorous side. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	betwixtsea_nsky 2019-04-29 05:41 am UTC (link)
	I believe what Mr. Wilde was referring to was that we should be humble before Love as we are before the Lord, for we are unworthy to accept either of such blessings unless we first humble ourselves before them. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	leonineserpant 2019-04-30 06:21 am UTC (link)
	From everything I know of Oscar, it could have gone one of two ways. Which likely means that he meant it in both ways at the same time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	betwixtsea_nsky 2019-04-30 08:13 pm UTC (link)
	I can assure you that my father would have never had me read such things during our home studies if that were the case. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	leonineserpant 2019-04-30 10:02 pm UTC (link)
	It's possible that he didn't quite get the play on words? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	betwixtsea_nsky 2019-05-02 08:38 pm UTC (link)
	... Oh dear. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	leonineserpant 2019-05-04 02:26 am UTC (link)
	I mean, this is Oscar we're talking about. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	betwixtsea_nsky 2019-05-05 10:30 pm UTC (link)
	You're entirely correct. I'm not entirely sure how I had missed it all this time... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	leonineserpant 2019-05-08 02:24 am UTC (link)
	I feel I should say I'm sorry for popping your bubble? Although, as an English lit major, be prepared for worse when it comes to analysing Shakespeare... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	betwixtsea_nsky 2019-05-09 02:59 am UTC (link)
	I never have been one for analysing literature. Perhaps it is best, in this case, if I keep it this way. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

leonineserpant
2019-05-11 12:59 am UTC (link)

Oh, far too much of my classes were spent analyzing things. God forbid an author describe a door color without a professor somewhere assigning meaning to that color. Trust me, if I say a door is yellow, it's because I am just trying to give a picture of the building for someone to see clearly. It never has any hidden meanings like that. But in cases like theirs, they never mean anything so straight forward.

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	betwixtsea_nsky 2019-05-16 07:37 pm UTC (link)
	While I'm sure that there are some authors who carefully choose every word for symbolic reasons, yes, I'm also quite certain that sometimes the literary minded can read far too deeply into things. (Reply to this) (Parent)