Unthinkable Wings

That adds a whole new level of wrongness, somehow!

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rustica.livejournal.com

I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't laugh but.... No. Definitely not titillating. And m/m bible slash? Please tell me there were no tongues...

In penance, I searched on rust stains and found this link for you.
http://www.wisegeek.com/how-can-i-remove-rust-stains-from-my-clothes.htm

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ellid.livejournal.com

Re: quote - EWWWWWW!!!!!!! Makes those Virgins Ouevriantes look positively normal

Re: rust stains - bleach is about it. Rust is a natural mordant and the "stains" are what used to be called iron buff....

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See Cornell University's comprehensive stain removal guide. http://www.human.cornell.edu/TXA/Outreach/upload/removingstains.pdf Warning: some of the solutions may also remove skin.

My hot water is bright blue. What on earth does the water company put in it?

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The hot water in Iceland was suplhuric - not wholly unreasonable, I suppose, given where they got it from!

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HIstory is silent on the question of tounges, but I seem to remember swooning....†

Thanks for the rust tips. I might try the rhubarb water one!

† I am assured that there is m/m bible slash in abundance at the Pit of Voles (though probaly really mostly 'Jesus Christ Superstar'), but I've never dared read any of them. It seems there is nothing someone, somewhere hasn't tried to slash. I bet there's even Koran slash out there somewhere....

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Yes... although, I looked at the original source and, icky though the idea is, I don't see any attempts at titillation.... which almost makes me wonder about Dr Fulton....

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Ooh, scary chemicals! Thank you.

Bright blue water is even more odd than orange (which is just rusty pipes). Vague memories of chemistry make me suspect yours has got copper sulphate in it... If it's in the hot water and not the cold, it's presumably a problem with your flat's bolier/ hot water pipes, though

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It could be the cold as well - "bright" was possibly an exaggeration, being short for "a bathful of it has a more than usual blue tinge". I shall now have to run a couple of inches of each separately to compare!

When I was a child, a bathful of water was yellow (oh, and how funny were the jokes...) being stained by peat.

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It seems there is nothing someone, somewhere hasn't tried to slash.
EU directives? This may be cheating, given that they don't have characters. Therefore I will also offer The Diary of Anne Frank.

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rustica.livejournal.com

Yes - I've heard rumours about bible slash too. Not touching that with a 100 ft barge pole!

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Just a quick look in the Pit of Voles returns 22 hits (mostly, it has to be said, "poems what I wrote after reading this book at school", and no actual slash, as far as I could see). According to a New York times article I turned up by typing the highly ill-advised words "anne frank slash" into Google (clear that cache!) there were 42 pieces of Anne Frank fan fiction at ff.net in 2004. So it seems things have actually improved.

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I'm very fond of a nice vierge ouvriante (sp?). When I was at college I tried to make one with a sheela-na-gig inside, but it fell foul of my frankly cackhanded way with papier mache.

It depends what exactly Rachel Fulton means by the Incarnation, I suppose. There is something arousing and / or erotic about the idea of God being made flesh, I think (I say this as a non-believer). I can't quite pinpoint it, but I suppose it has something to do with the idea that divine love for humans has an erotic element, and the pathos of God becoming flesh, subject to its own desires and weaknesses. "Titillating" is a very trivial sort of word to use, though.
If she's talking about the actual physical process of conception and birth, though, I'm baffled.
The Cherry Tree Carol is sort of folk version of what this mystic chap was on about, isn't it?

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Yes, i think it's just badly expressed ('titillating' is definitely wrong; it's - well, I hesitate to use the word 'sordid', but it's both feeble and decididly negative.)

I think a better analogue for Philip (the mystic chap) would be the mediaeval carol 'I sing of a maiden' - a very beautiful and exrtemely clever little poem:

I sing of a maiden
That is makeles;
King of all kings
To her son she ches.

He came al so still
There his mother was,
As dew in April
That falleth on the grass.

He came al so still
To his mother’s bour,
As dew in April
That falleth on the flour.

He came al so still
There his mother lay,
As dew in April
That falleth on the spray.

Mother and maiden
Was never none but she;
Well may such a lady
Goddes mother be.

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That poem's a great favourite of mine: I heard it very disappointingly set to music at a Christmas concert last year, and was dismayed all evening.

He came al so still
To his mother’s bour,

That's it, see: not "titillating" (awful sea-side postcard connotations) but sexual nonetheless.

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Well, that's a good sign. I think.

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I have a suspicion the V.O.'s are heretical (in the technical sense).† Though it's practiacally impossible not to be, when dealing with the Trinity.

†At least, if you men the ones that have the Father and the Spirit inside them, as well as the Son.

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a_t_rain searched out some summaries from Biblical section of the Pit of Voles some time ago - some of them wer (unitentionally) hilarious, but I can't say I felt any inclination to looka them.

I have, God help me, read 'Left Behind' slash. It was really bad, but still 100% more artistically. theologically and indeed morally acceptable than the source text...

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It's one of my favourites, too, but I've never heard setting of it I like.

Although, frankly, I don't think it needs music. It's complete in itself. (The mediaeval macaronic Marian thing Britten set is a much slighter poem, but possibly works better as a choral piece for that reason.

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Delightful. Still, my pet hate is nevertheless really hadr water (cue discustigng limescale floating about on your tea) Sometimes I'm tempted to go Germanic and start adding lemon.

At least peaty water is good for whisky!

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ellid.livejournal.com

When I was at college I tried to make one with a sheela-na-gig inside, but it fell foul of my frankly cackhanded way with papier mache.

That is one of the most brilliant things I've ever heard of. WOW!

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Ever tried to make hinges out of papier mache and twine?

*shakes head in wonderment*

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macaronic Marian thing

I don't think I know it...

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Of one that is so fair and bright
Velut maris stella,
Brighter than the day is light,
Parens et puella:
I cry to thee, thou see to me,
Lady, pray thy Son for me,
Tam pia,
That I may come to thee.
Maria!

All this world was forlorn
Eva peccatrice,
Till our Lord was y-born
De te genetrice.
With ave it went away
Darkest night, and comes the day
Salutis;
The well springeth out of thee.
Virtutis.

Lady, flow'r of ev'ry thing,
Rosa sine spina,
Thou bare Jesu, Heaven's King,
Gratia divina:
Of all thou bear'st the prize,
Lady, queen of paradise
Electa:
Maid mild, mother es
Effecta.

For two choruses, one singing the English and one the Latin. B.B.'s setting's excellent.

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I have a suspicion the V.O.'s are heretical

*nods* The abbreviation V.O. makes them sound very sinister, somehow, too.
I associate them with head reliquaries, one of which seems to have played a part in the downfall of the Templars, because there is a picture of both on the same page (? nearby, anyway) of Michael Camille's The Gothic Idol, which I spent hours with as an undergraduate.

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