What Cocteau said Picasso said
Feb. 23rd, 2006 04:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonQuote of the day:
"Picasso said that everything was a miracle, and it was a miracle that one did not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar."
—Jean Cocteau
There are days, of course, when I feel as if I have dissolved in the bath. It's been a stressful couple of weeks at work, what with lay offs and dreaming that I've been fired and general weirdness. In the rational world, I think I'm okay (though no one is invulnerable), but dreams aren't about rationality. All the fears I talk myself out of during waking hours come out to play in the night zone.
I am writing—because that's what I do—but this week has been a strain. I've managed to do my usual couple of pages a day, but today I stared at the blank page for a long time before I finally got something moving. But it did move, eventually, and that's to be grateful for.
Inspired by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jmeadows's novelist post, I went back and put one of my unfinished mss., Brother Wolf, into SMF to see what the word count was. Over 90k. I should really think about working out the plotholes on that one and finishing it. It's an SF story disguised as a mystery/thriller. Okay, so it has some mystico mumbo jumbo/fantasy elements thrown in, too. Because that's what I do.
In other news: My friend and I were talking and she said she knows a lot of Virgos—and she does, she's surrounded by us. And every one of them is a little off. She was being polite. I said yes, every one of us is a nutcase in some way. We have a skewed way of looking at the world, and we tend towards paranoia. And she said she knew a lot of Pisces, too. She'd be hard pressed to say who was nuttier, Virgos or Pisces.
Virgo Sun, Virgo in Mars, Pisces Moon, Pisces Ascendant...No wonder I'm crazy. We won't even get into my Sun-Moon opposition.
"Picasso said that everything was a miracle, and it was a miracle that one did not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar."
—Jean Cocteau
There are days, of course, when I feel as if I have dissolved in the bath. It's been a stressful couple of weeks at work, what with lay offs and dreaming that I've been fired and general weirdness. In the rational world, I think I'm okay (though no one is invulnerable), but dreams aren't about rationality. All the fears I talk myself out of during waking hours come out to play in the night zone.
I am writing—because that's what I do—but this week has been a strain. I've managed to do my usual couple of pages a day, but today I stared at the blank page for a long time before I finally got something moving. But it did move, eventually, and that's to be grateful for.
Inspired by
jmeadows's novelist post, I went back and put one of my unfinished mss., Brother Wolf, into SMF to see what the word count was. Over 90k. I should really think about working out the plotholes on that one and finishing it. It's an SF story disguised as a mystery/thriller. Okay, so it has some mystico mumbo jumbo/fantasy elements thrown in, too. Because that's what I do.In other news: My friend and I were talking and she said she knows a lot of Virgos—and she does, she's surrounded by us. And every one of them is a little off. She was being polite. I said yes, every one of us is a nutcase in some way. We have a skewed way of looking at the world, and we tend towards paranoia. And she said she knew a lot of Pisces, too. She'd be hard pressed to say who was nuttier, Virgos or Pisces.
Virgo Sun, Virgo in Mars, Pisces Moon, Pisces Ascendant...No wonder I'm crazy. We won't even get into my Sun-Moon opposition.
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Date: 2006-02-23 05:56 pm (UTC)On another front, darling, we're all crazy. It's just that we're all crazy in our twelve basic ways.
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Date: 2006-02-24 11:45 am (UTC)Thank you. In this case I do mostly think it's irrational, but having once lost a job, that irrationality is easy to invoke.
On another front, darling, we're all crazy. It's just that we're all crazy in our twelve basic ways.
With my Sun-Moon dichotomy, I always fear I've gotten an extra load, but hey. Everybody's got an extra load of something, right?
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Date: 2006-02-23 06:37 pm (UTC)(Guess what sign I am?)
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Date: 2006-02-24 11:45 am (UTC)off kilter and off the rocker
Date: 2006-02-24 02:39 am (UTC)Re: off kilter and off the rocker
Date: 2006-02-24 11:46 am (UTC)Dicked in the knob??? That's a classic.
Re: off kilter and off the rocker
Date: 2006-02-24 12:07 pm (UTC)Re: off kilter and off the rocker
Date: 2006-02-24 01:08 pm (UTC)Re: off kilter and off the rocker
Date: 2006-02-24 01:14 pm (UTC)