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The not-swine-flu continues. Work tomorrow looks unlikely, which is annoying because I’ve got a lot on next week and so needed to do a good bit this. At least it is only a cold, and from the shoulders down I feel absolutely fine, so that as soon as it leaves my head I should be up and about. If it leaves me by Saturday morning, I am almost tempted to wrap up warm and get a cheap seat at Lord’s.

In the meantime, despite not having watched ER for ages, I see that it is the Last Ever Episode tonight, so I shall attempt to stay up for it.

Finally, to give this post some substance and despite it not being April, a poem by James Elroy Flecker, swooning Edwardian extraordinaire, and did the authors but know it, inspiring spirit of every HMS Wolfstar fic ever written.

WE THAT WERE FRIENDS

We that were friends to-night have found
A fear, a secret, and a shame:
I am on fire with that soft sound
You make, in uttering my name.

Forgive a young and boastful man
Whom dreams delight and passions please,
And love me as great women can
Who have no children at their knees.

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Date: 2009-05-07 04:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
If the're still playing come Saturday ...

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Date: 2009-05-07 06:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
It's not looking like it..

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Date: 2009-05-11 07:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
[livejournal.com profile] gayalondiel was bought tickets for Saturday by her husband, as her birthday present!

How are you feeling now?

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Date: 2009-05-07 06:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] azdak.livejournal.com
Hee! Flecker's "I" sounds exactly like the Young Man in Schnitzler's La Ronde (who discovers, once he has persuaded the married woman to love him as great women can, that he can't get it up..)

Flecker.. Flecker... I know him from Other Men's Flowers. What did he write? "I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep"?

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Date: 2009-05-07 06:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
Flecker is exactly the sort who comes up in mid-century anthologies. "Old Ships" is probably his most famous, followed by "The Golden Road to Samarkand". (For lust of knowing what should not be known / We take the gold road to Samarkand.)

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Date: 2009-05-07 06:53 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] white_hart
I once read a very slashy novel which had Flecker as a major character.

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Date: 2009-05-12 08:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
I'm sure he fit right in (what was it called?)

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Date: 2009-05-12 08:21 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] white_hart
I had forgotten everything except that the author's surname began with a B, but I think it's this one.

Round up the usual suspects

Date: 2009-05-12 09:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
T E Lawrence as well! Thank you - I see it is pretty cheap on abebooks so I shall have a look.

Re: Round up the usual suspects

Date: 2009-05-12 09:36 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] white_hart
I don't recall it being terribly good, or even really satisfying my 14-year-old's desire for slash (pre-internet, which meant I was mostly stuck with Alan Hollinghurst).

Re: Round up the usual suspects

Date: 2009-05-12 09:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
It doesn't sound a work of genius from the description, just weird enough (and about Flecker) to make we want to look at a cheap copy!

I tthink I discovered slash at 17 with Mary Renault. Very conventional of me.

Re: Round up the usual suspects

Date: 2009-05-12 10:02 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] white_hart
Somehow Mary Renault passed me by, although Rosemary Sutcliff's 'The Flowers of Adonis' was probably along much the same lines. I think I had an inkling of slash from a very early age - I read a lot of fantasy which is full of slashy H/C-type moments.

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Date: 2009-05-10 02:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyvivien.livejournal.com
Hope you don't mind my adding you - we seem to have scads of similar interests, and I've completely fallen in love with your Wimsey-fic ;)

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