in an unseen place
Apr. 21st, 2018 12:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaKelsey looks like Tina Belcher with a cloth headband. Ava (or Eva or Ieva or I have no idea, Avaa, which will no doubt bring up horrible horrible memories of the Great Crystal for those of us who have played Final Fantasy XII (Avāchi is the Sanskrit word for south (somehow it ended up Dakṣiṇa/dakshin/dakuṇu/Dakhaṇī/ in modern Indian languages(whilst up and down correspond to geologic periods and proximity to the center are layers of trees so you can get a rough idea of where you are based on the location)) has hair in a knob on top and sticking out on both sides black closer to her head and lightening to blonde and she had a black crystal pendant. Alexa has a necklace of white stones and I had to hand her the sketchbook because the train was so full. The red line was crowded too. It’s weird because there have been evenings in which it felt like the city was under lockdown.
I ran into Kelsey on that train, but not Ava. That’s my guess as to why they got off. I think the train had to stop for a few minutes at JFK anyway.
I think Christina might be a more common name than Ashley. At the very least, I think it is now. I met one Christina on the way in, and she’s not an artist and said that she sees me a lot, although I’ve never seen her and now that she’s said it, I doubt I’ll have the serendipity to run into her again. I haven’t had any serendipitous encounters. The Christina I met on the way out called it sweet, not in that “Ninjas are totally sweet and once a ninja flipped out and slaughtered an entire restaurant because someone dropped a fork” but in the “aww, that’s so sweet” flirty way. mistook yet another person for Lauren as well. I think “people I’ve mistaken for Lauren” outnumber “people I’ve met named Ashley.”
There was a woman with striking pine tree in winter colored eyes and hair of black and lavender and purple and white.
On the red line trip home, someone said that he thinks that lo mein and teriyaki tastes better cold and griped about the lousy Smarchpril weather.
There are two things everyone experiences: birth and death. The Dream of Gerontius is concerned with the latter. It started out as a poem. Antonín Dvořák considered writing his own take on this but abandoned it. Meanwhile, Elgar wanted to write an oratorio based on the life of Saint Augustine but it was rejected for being too Catholic. Then he wanted to write a work about the Apostles but it was too large-scale. Then he settled on the Dream of Gerontius.
It was controversial because even by the turn of the 20th century, England was still very anti-Catholic. His wife was even disinherited for converting to Catholicism and marrying him. In fact, at the premiere, he had to alter a prayer to Mary because in the Protestant churches, you don't do that. Look, I don't know much about Christianity and its denominations. In fact, up until I was in high school, I didn't even know there were denominations of Christianity. But I thought that the Church of England was basically just Catholicism except Henry VIII was Pope.
Everything in the work builds up to this deafening part and everything after moves away from it. A tenor plays Gerontius in life and in death. A bass plays a priest and the Angel of the Agony, and a mezzo-soprano plays an angel, described by Gerontius as male but played by a woman. A chorus plays assistants and friends of Gerontius, a horde of cackling demons, a host of angelicals, and fellow souls in purgatory and in heaven.
Gerontius is said with a hard g in England and a soft g in America. Going by the Wiki on Greek phonology, the English are right. It’s also more commonly played there.
Burning Question: What could be so secret, she wired it up with 12 pounds of C-4?
I ran into Kelsey on that train, but not Ava. That’s my guess as to why they got off. I think the train had to stop for a few minutes at JFK anyway.
I think Christina might be a more common name than Ashley. At the very least, I think it is now. I met one Christina on the way in, and she’s not an artist and said that she sees me a lot, although I’ve never seen her and now that she’s said it, I doubt I’ll have the serendipity to run into her again. I haven’t had any serendipitous encounters. The Christina I met on the way out called it sweet, not in that “Ninjas are totally sweet and once a ninja flipped out and slaughtered an entire restaurant because someone dropped a fork” but in the “aww, that’s so sweet” flirty way. mistook yet another person for Lauren as well. I think “people I’ve mistaken for Lauren” outnumber “people I’ve met named Ashley.”
There was a woman with striking pine tree in winter colored eyes and hair of black and lavender and purple and white.
On the red line trip home, someone said that he thinks that lo mein and teriyaki tastes better cold and griped about the lousy Smarchpril weather.
There are two things everyone experiences: birth and death. The Dream of Gerontius is concerned with the latter. It started out as a poem. Antonín Dvořák considered writing his own take on this but abandoned it. Meanwhile, Elgar wanted to write an oratorio based on the life of Saint Augustine but it was rejected for being too Catholic. Then he wanted to write a work about the Apostles but it was too large-scale. Then he settled on the Dream of Gerontius.
It was controversial because even by the turn of the 20th century, England was still very anti-Catholic. His wife was even disinherited for converting to Catholicism and marrying him. In fact, at the premiere, he had to alter a prayer to Mary because in the Protestant churches, you don't do that. Look, I don't know much about Christianity and its denominations. In fact, up until I was in high school, I didn't even know there were denominations of Christianity. But I thought that the Church of England was basically just Catholicism except Henry VIII was Pope.
Everything in the work builds up to this deafening part and everything after moves away from it. A tenor plays Gerontius in life and in death. A bass plays a priest and the Angel of the Agony, and a mezzo-soprano plays an angel, described by Gerontius as male but played by a woman. A chorus plays assistants and friends of Gerontius, a horde of cackling demons, a host of angelicals, and fellow souls in purgatory and in heaven.
Gerontius is said with a hard g in England and a soft g in America. Going by the Wiki on Greek phonology, the English are right. It’s also more commonly played there.
Burning Question: What could be so secret, she wired it up with 12 pounds of C-4?
