A new blog-dropping, already? Yes. It goes with my immersion in SG this evening, after an absence of 11 days, give or take. (This was as well my second such remove from SG in about a month. (Damn the internet & my neighbours's patchy wi-fi connections.) At least this time my withdrawl -- which may be a problem, that I experience SG withdrawl? -- was not so pronounced in my psyche that I dreamt on it, quite luridly (for me, anyway; I don't have erotic dreams, or at least don't remember them, & when I do it's usually missionary or finding an impediment to same (e.g. my dream in late '00, I was at the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake, & ran into my friend Meghan (from my semester abroad, the previous spring); I wanted to engage in intercourse with her, but Saints & non-Saints don't mix like that, so in the dream I was confined to a wheelchair (waking, I am ambulatory)).)
& so it goes.
Anyhow, I have a pithy essayette that I put together in response to that ridiculousness that is Twilight. Specifically, I refer to the "baseball scene". Why is it included?
My thoughts: "As it is, I have three or five reasons for the scene rattling in my head, but the one that stands out to me is this: vampires are traditionalists. Specifically, as it relates to scene, they are sporting traditionalists. You will have noted how the male lead (sorry, I cannot remember names) rather dismally responded to Bella's proffer of joining her at the shore for the multi-racial clique's surf outing. Of course, we assume the dismissal were due the fact that vamps do not respond well or amicably to sunlight. But this is Washington & or Oregon! How much sun is there? Further along, the actual surfing took place on a dreary day, not raining, but misting -- & no sun about. So, clearly, the vampire would have survived.
He chose not to go though. Why? Simply, surfing is too "extreme", too 'Dew Generation', for the ageless blood-sucking monsters who were there for polo's invention (as buzkashi (spelling?)). The vampire just will not abide the churlishness of surfing. Baseball, meanwhile, is a pastoral, timeless game -- one they can & do enjoy. Just to get away from the lust for human flesh (in the bad way), to be amongst themselves; not expending energy, but having fun at least. But fun within the bounds of taste.
Vampires do, then, but they do not do the Dew".
So, what say you?
& so it goes.
Anyhow, I have a pithy essayette that I put together in response to that ridiculousness that is Twilight. Specifically, I refer to the "baseball scene". Why is it included?
My thoughts: "As it is, I have three or five reasons for the scene rattling in my head, but the one that stands out to me is this: vampires are traditionalists. Specifically, as it relates to scene, they are sporting traditionalists. You will have noted how the male lead (sorry, I cannot remember names) rather dismally responded to Bella's proffer of joining her at the shore for the multi-racial clique's surf outing. Of course, we assume the dismissal were due the fact that vamps do not respond well or amicably to sunlight. But this is Washington & or Oregon! How much sun is there? Further along, the actual surfing took place on a dreary day, not raining, but misting -- & no sun about. So, clearly, the vampire would have survived.
He chose not to go though. Why? Simply, surfing is too "extreme", too 'Dew Generation', for the ageless blood-sucking monsters who were there for polo's invention (as buzkashi (spelling?)). The vampire just will not abide the churlishness of surfing. Baseball, meanwhile, is a pastoral, timeless game -- one they can & do enjoy. Just to get away from the lust for human flesh (in the bad way), to be amongst themselves; not expending energy, but having fun at least. But fun within the bounds of taste.
Vampires do, then, but they do not do the Dew".
So, what say you?
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niobe:
Happy Holidays! 
otoki:
That's a saving throw I tend to avoid