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[tree_and_leaf]

• 21:30 Almost time to break out Charles Williams' "All Hallows Eve" again! #
• 21:31 @ParrotKnight I haven't seen that, shockingly. I really ought to try to get to Doc Soc (though I get a free formal hall on Thursdays, ...) #
• 22:24 I dislike telling people I care about things they don't want to hear, but sometimes it has to be doneto avoid ending up in a false postiion #
• 22:25 Though I have a suspicion they may find it less of a shock than I think.... #
• 22:28 Also, next door is playing bizarrely loud piano music again. #
• 22:52 And I don't think the Death-Eaters in Oxford fic works, but I don't know how to fix it :( #
• 00:25 Actually, wouldn't it be great if Philip Glennister played the Doctor? #
• 10:55 And suddenly the MCR is full of philosopher rowers from other colleges.... describing it as 'classy'. Of course! #
• 11:15 Now one philosopher is talking about 'Ze purity of ze intellectual argument', and arguing engaging with the history of thought. Berk. #
• 11:37 "It's not just about drinking, I'm looking forward to making some civil libertarian arguments, too..." #
• 11:38 And now they've moved on to the Rothenburg cannibal... "The worst of it is, I wouldn't want to put that in my mouth." #
• 17:31 @GMWWemyss I've never had quince jelly with pheasant, but it sounds promising. The chestnuts are certainly good in combination. #
• 17:32 Note to self: do not attempt to explain the Facebook group 'every time you say mass without a maniple, God kills a kitten' to supervisor. #
• 18:11 Blimey, gel is harder to use than you'd think. Regret laughing at teenage boys! #

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Comments

[anna-in-the-sky.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a very interesting day! Although, I wouldn't want to discuss nor be subjected to any sort of talk about cannibalism in detail... Eh.

And I don't think the Death-Eaters in Oxford fic works, but I don't know how to fix it.

Do you still need a beta?

[tree_and_leaf]

It was when they got on to the specific details of body parts that I started to feel really ill...

Thanks for the offer, but I think I have enough eyes on it for the mean-time.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I'd have walked out. Did you? Germany does produce some odd specimens.

[tree_and_leaf]

It wasn't actually the German that was talking about the cannibal, to be fair.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

No, I mean the cannibal. There were some other particularly gruesome crimes there in recent times - like the couple who decided to starve their six-year-old daughter to death, and did so; and the woman who murdered each of her seven children soon afteer birth, and buried them in the back yard.

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes, I realised what you meant just after I'd replied (it's been a long day...)

I'm not sure you can lump all those cases together, though; the infanticide, in particular, is a more familiar phenomenon than consensual cannibalism....

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I'll tell you this: there is plenty of crime in Italy, including plenty of inter-family violence, but I have never come across, or even conceived of, a couple of people who would decide to starve their own six-year-old child to death, and do so coldly and without remorse. I call it inconceivable. And the seven dead babies have a refinement of brutality which, in this age of abortion, shows a special and incomprehensible pleasure in personal killing that takes the breath away. One, perhaps. But seven?

[tree_and_leaf]

I was thinking of the babies rather than the six-year old. And I agree, it's awful - but I don't think from what I remember of the case that 'pleasure in killing' came into it, as far as anyone can tell... Though the human heart can be a pretty dark and unknowable place at times.

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

And I don't think the Death-Eaters in Oxford fic works, but I don't know how to fix it :(

Why? If you still need a beta, let me know. :)

[tree_and_leaf]

That was just general gloom, I think, caused by staring into space for an hour while trying to psyche myself up to write an email that I really didn't want to write...

I woukd like a beta - I need to get my thoughts into a slightly more coherent state first.

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

I completely understand. I made the mistake of telling my supervisor yesterday that I'd send her a completed chapter draft by the end of this upcoming week. ::headdesk::

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Since there is a queue of would-be betas already, I will not offer it. But you might like to know that I have an Oxford setting for an unfinished long fic of mine, and a permanent institution of an "Oxford professor of Magic", with the appropriate person in charge. In fact, in one of my fics it turns out that many of the most ancient universities have departments or chairs of magic.

[tree_and_leaf]

Sounds interesting! I have them disguised as scholars of the history of science...

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

Note to self: do not attempt to explain the Facebook group 'every time you say mass without a maniple, God kills a kitten' to supervisor.

Bwahahahahaha!

[tree_and_leaf]

I don't know what possessed me. Well, actually, I do, it was champagne on an empty stomach, followed by two Gs&T, and it was at least partly her fault for reminiscing about the incident at a previous viva where the external, asking about a fourteenth century text about how Christ suffered more pain on the cross for every sin we commit here and now, got a bit fixated on the bit about noctural emmissions. "You're saying that everytime you have a wet dream, Jesus..."

:"Er - I'm not. The text is.....

At least the kitten-killing thing is obviously a joke (I also then had to explain to various people what a maniple is, which didn't help, although maniples are really very pointless anyway, and I don't actually know any priest who wears one).

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

I must admit that I had to google 'maniple' at first, although it seems to be more common in Catholicism than in the Anglican High Church. However, since it's mainly used for the Tridentine Mass and I have never been to one of those, I think that this is excuse enough.

the external, asking about a fourteenth century text about how Christ suffered more pain on the cross for every sin we commit here and now, got a bit fixated on the bit about noctural emmissions. "You're saying that everytime you have a wet dream, Jesus..."

Clearly, I should have considered a theology degree. I seem to have missed out on so much in my EngLit programme.