Limitations

[poliphilo]

That meme about things I've done and you haven't. I'm tempted to try it but it makes my head hurt to remember all that stuff.

Every one of those things I've done and you haven't is just another brick in the wall.

Personality is a prison as much as its a romper-room. The more colourful I am, the more I'm stuck with myself.

I'm Quentin Crisp. No-one is ever going to ask me to haul a sleigh to the South Pole.

As a writer I keep coming up against my limitations. I bang against them like a vacuum cleaner butting against the skirting board.

The least limited writer ever was Shakespeare. He creates an illusion of knowing everything. We haven't a clue what he was like in himself.

One of my favourite scenes from the movies is Rita Haworth and Edward Everett Sloane in Lady From Shanghai. They're in the mirror maze, surrounded by multiple images of themselves. He says something like "I'm awfully tired of us, lover." Then they start shooting.

Glass everywhere.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

To be praised by you- the wittiest lj-er of us all- means so much.

I'll think about the meme, but I'm making no promises.

Oh, OK....

1. I have exchanged letters with Sir Alec Guinness.
2. I have been banned from speaking in an English cathedral.
3. I have been arrested by the Swiss police.
4. I have conducted an open air pagan wedding.
5. I have written and performed in a passion play.
6 I have conducted the funeral of a man who was stabbed to death by his own son.
7. I have been grounded by a sandstorm at Luxor airport.
8. I have spent the night in the ruined tower on Glastonbury Tor.
9. I have shaken hands with Sir Jack Hobbs (famous English cricketer)
10. I been baby sat by Thomas Hardy's sister-in-law.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

These are great!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I was getting desperate by the end. I spent about 20 minutes staring vacantly at the ceiling before the final 3 slipped into place.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

But now don't you have an extra 5 you'd like to add?

I'm sure you have done lots of things that other people haven't. I liked the sandstorm at Luxor Airport.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't suppose there are many people who've been both an Episcopal priest And a Wiccan high priest but....

...but actually I'm a very quiet and domestic sort of chap.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Good grief! It didn't take you long, I'll wager, and you could probably do ten more in as many minutes.

You even left out that you are one of the few who have an autographed Kipling.

This is a fine list.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It took me ages. And I was really desperate by the end. I nearly bailed out after #7.