Pebbles

[poliphilo]

Ailz: Would you say you knew everything about me?

Self: Hell, no.

Ailz: Cos there's this thing I'm reading that says that couples start off asking one another questions all the time and then they think they know everything about one another and get bored with the relationship.

Self: How can I possibly know everything about you when I don't know everything about myself?

Ailz: Exactly.

What is personality? It's certainly not a package tied up with string. It's not fixed. I get this image of a rock pool, washed over twice daily by the tide. It's a tight little eco-system, but one that's open to something a whole lot bigger.

O look, those pebbles weren't there before. And that crab is new.

Hello, Mr Crab.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That would be nice. With lots of reflections

[archyena.livejournal.com]

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens;
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens;
Brown paper packages tied up with strings;
These are a few of my favorite things.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'd figured that out already.

I knows my Rogers and Hammerstein.

[archyena.livejournal.com]

But if someone starts Rogers and Hammerstein, you have to sing too.... sorry, I'm in a silly mood this morning.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

And why not?

I have mixed feelings about R & H. Sometimes I think they're utter dreck and sometimes there's nothing that will fit the bill so well as a rousing chorus from Oklahoma.

[archyena.livejournal.com]

Oh God. *face palm* You know we had to learn the song and a dance routine to Oklahoma in elementary school. It's actually part of the curriculum. And they wonder why so many of their kids turnout gay....

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Aw... cute!

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

And what about Gilbert and Sullivan?

I'm called Little Buttercup,
Dear Little Buttercup,
Though I could never tell why...

or

I am a monarch of the sea
A ruler of the Queen's navee

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Oh yes,

I'm particularly fond of the Duke of Plaza-Toro.

In enterprise of martial kind
When there was any fighting
He led his regiment from behind-
He found it less exciting...

These days I guess we'd call him a chicken-hawk.

Did you see Topsy-Turvy? That was a sweet film.