retrospective

One of the "joys" of retrospective is looking at the period leading up to a breakup. 2 years ago, things were crappy, last year, things were crappy. It reassures my commitment to give up.

(no subject)

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...along with these instructions.

"Tolkien was careful to stress that though his fantasy languages were rooted in 'real' phonology, what was important was not so much their origins, but the 'colouring' and 'individual details'('OFS, 18) that differentiated them from anything in the primary world: 'how poweful, how stimulating to the very faculty that produced it, was the invention of the adjective'('OFS,' 22)."