Succumbing to the Green Fairy

[51stcenturyfox]

...so I was working on a piece of fic involving guess who (points up) and got stuck. I blame using a notebook instead of the computer, because it screws up my sense of order, writing things with PENS. Now back to the original setting and absinthe. Because. John Hart.

Boche had known a joiner who had stripped himself stark naked in the rue Saint-Martin and died doing the polka — he was an absinthe-drinker.

So. Absinthe research led to arguments from the Ist Century BCE Lucretius poem De Rerum Natura : It is a statement of personal responsibility in a world in which everyone is driven by hungers and passions with which they were born and do not understand.

Odd prompts/structure for naughty fan fiction about two guys from the 51st Century. Probably.

Unrelated but funny: the John Barrowman peen pic. Likely not his, but "being dickrolled" has now entered the LJ lexicon.

***Also, the best YouTube cooking video title I've seen lately: Béchamel Sauce - Let's Turn This "Mother" Out!

Comments

[eviinsanemonkey.livejournal.com]

I prefer notebooks when I'm getting my thoughts in order...I'm more likely to continue if I use a notebook first then type stuff up.

[neifile7.livejournal.com]

Now, I'd really like to know just how you got from absinthe to Lucretius. I mean, in dictionary roulette you could easily have just missed Lucifer instead. But I sense subtlety in the offing here. Expound!

Or maybe that's the kind of connection that arises when you write by hand? It's hell for structure but great for random insight, I find. :)

And speaking of dictionaries, haven't we all been waiting for the perfect Barrowmanian adjective? "Dickrolled" is overdue. Or over-something.

[andreth47.livejournal.com]

Don'tcha just hate it when absinthe research leads to ancient Roman philosophical poetry? So annoying.

Is that the pic on the hot dog bun? Pretty sure that's not John, as the peen in that pic is circumcised, and JB has said he isn't.

THIS, on the other hand, I am almost entirely certain IS John.