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a visible symptom
Sep. 3rd, 2004 12:38 amSurvived a 3-hour meeting from 10.30 - 1.30 today, without yawning once, and only blinking a few times. And if the videoconference equipment gave them on the other end as darkened an image of me as it did me of them, they won't even have noticed that. Good. (Just goes to prove what I've always suspected -- I can survive long meetings if I'm actually taking part in them, it's when I'm sitting in the background and not doing anything, not even writing notes, that I start to nod off and pinch myself to stay awake.)
Exalted Fair Folk wallpaper up at http://www.melissauran.com/wallpaper/shikuzi_1280.jpg -- very pretty indeed. Melissa Uran does good work. I feel tempted to put it as wallpaper at work. We shall see.
Weather was nice and sunny. A pity that I'd decided to take a coat in to work, prompted by the cooler behaviour of the last few days. That's how it goes.
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Farther out, in the establishments on thoroughfares radiating from the Square, things became more complicated and decidedly more elegant. The activities associated with Guild Hall Square were an almost entirely human thing -- Dracori and humans existing in a mutual state of almost utter incomprehension so far as the business of certain recreations was concerned - and the fact of any activity of human men is this: the more money involved, the more respectable to all intents and purposes it becomes. Indeed, when those possessed of a certain variety of moral sensibility, like the Nondenominational Crusade for the Reclamation of Wickedness, likened Guild Hall Square to a sore on the face of their dear city-state, they tended to miss the point that a sore is merely one of the visible symptoms of a body that is in itself diseased.
[...]
Magnus Solaris turned to look at the consuming darkness behind him. "Do I have any choice?"
"Oh, there are always choices," said the stranger. "The problem is that none of them, ultimately, is particularly happy."
-- Citadel of Dreams, Dave Stone
Exalted Fair Folk wallpaper up at http://www.melissauran.com/wallpaper/shikuzi_1280.jpg -- very pretty indeed. Melissa Uran does good work. I feel tempted to put it as wallpaper at work. We shall see.
Weather was nice and sunny. A pity that I'd decided to take a coat in to work, prompted by the cooler behaviour of the last few days. That's how it goes.
---
Farther out, in the establishments on thoroughfares radiating from the Square, things became more complicated and decidedly more elegant. The activities associated with Guild Hall Square were an almost entirely human thing -- Dracori and humans existing in a mutual state of almost utter incomprehension so far as the business of certain recreations was concerned - and the fact of any activity of human men is this: the more money involved, the more respectable to all intents and purposes it becomes. Indeed, when those possessed of a certain variety of moral sensibility, like the Nondenominational Crusade for the Reclamation of Wickedness, likened Guild Hall Square to a sore on the face of their dear city-state, they tended to miss the point that a sore is merely one of the visible symptoms of a body that is in itself diseased.
[...]
Magnus Solaris turned to look at the consuming darkness behind him. "Do I have any choice?"
"Oh, there are always choices," said the stranger. "The problem is that none of them, ultimately, is particularly happy."
-- Citadel of Dreams, Dave Stone
