Telephone line through time

[icepixie]

Non-poll, free-for-all question: Why do you read my journal? Has the reason(s) changed since you first friended me? (It's nearly ScaperCon weekend; I'm feeling a desire to connect to people.)

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I'm really liking the song in my music field at the moment. The music is not exactly peppy, but the lyrics are really good for...hmmm...not cheering up, exactly, but for feeling better about certain things. Plus, it's about literary research--presumably--and that certainly gets my attention. (I would make a great college professor if the job just didn't include teaching as well as research and writing.)

I particularly like this section:

they published your diary
and that's how i got to know you
the key to the room of your own and a mind without end
and here's a young girl
on a kind of a telephone line through time
and the voice at the other end comes like a long lost friend
so i know i'm all right
life will come and life will go
still i feel it's all right
cause i just got a letter to my soul
and when my whole life is on the tip of my tongue
empty pages for the no longer young
the apathy of time laughs in my face
you say each life has its place

And then it gets seriously a bit weird towards the end, but hell, it's about Virginia Woolf, so what else do you expect? And this is just...yeah, it's all there in the text; I don't need to explicate. But it was what I needed to hear this week.

(Plus, I'm also reading Beatrix Potter's journal at the moment, and dipping into Swift's Journal to Stella here and there; few journals and collections of letters have such personality, in my experience, particularly Potter's.)

This doesn't have anything to do with the fact that I'm halfway through Orlando, although I will say that I'm surprised at how readable and good it is. I hated The Waves but kind of liked Mrs. Dalloway, so I thought I'd give her one more chance before I wrote her off completely. And although it's starting to get a bit strange, I fell in love with the first half, and I'm willing to read the next 150 pages even if they go way off the deep end. I don't say that about many things I don't have to read for class.

OMG, I may end up liking that woman yet! (But I still reserve the right to laugh at the "never give a typewriter to the Virginian Woolfsnake" line in one of the Lemony Snickett books.)

Comments

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Why do you read my journal? Has the reason(s) changed since you first friended me?

Well, it hasn't been that long (a month? Maybe a little more?), so I'm not sure how to answer the second part. As for the first, obviously the Who, especially Eight, but the fact that we both sing and like RVW and were English majors certainly enters into it. But those are just interests--I like reading the things you write, whether it's your journal entries, your comments to mine, or your fic. It's all good :)

[elflore.livejournal.com]

The general reason I read your journal would be the same as it's always been...that you're one of the awesome Scaper crowd, and someone I miss seeing at Scapercons.

Of course, you getting into Who has given us even more to talk about--and I for one have no complaints at all about the preponderance of Who in your lj these days! *g*

[cybermathwitch.livejournal.com]

Why do I read your journal?

well, a. definately the Scaper thing. You're one of the people I met and enjoyed hanging out with and therefore I try to keep up. (Actually, you're one of the first people in fandom I met online and then talked to offline.)

second, you're just an interesting person, and an excellent writer.

third, and this sounds kinda weird, but it's been neat reading about college from your POV. Because it was so *completely* unlike mine and so much more like what I'd wanted college to be like. So there's probably a degree of vicarious living there.

[wildtiger7.livejournal.com]

I read your journal because I find the things you talk about interesting. You quote the Indigo Girls, for crying out loud - I have no complaints. I have no idea how we originally became lj friends, but I definitely am glad we are.

[astropoet.livejournal.com]

Tegan!

[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

I read because I like knowing what's going on with you and you have an awesome brand of crazy. ;)

Has the reason(s) changed since you first friended me?

Nope. :)

ScaperCon, whee! Even if it's just virtual, shh!

[cybermathwitch.livejournal.com]

re: "Non-poll, free-for-all question: Why do you read my journal? Has the reason(s) changed since you first friended me?"

Do you care terribly if I make a meme out of you? ::now has Mulan running through her head. Sigh.::

[weyoun21.livejournal.com]

i read you because you are becca and a scaper! i'm interested in what you're up to and what's going on with you! and no, my reasons haven't changed. ::cuddleclings:: but i still think you should get aim or something so i can finally pounce you via im! ♥ also, you have a drd icon.