Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices squeezed from goblin fruits for you.

[kleenexwoman]

Roomies have commenced upon an all-night Nickelodeon marathon in the dorm, so I must study phrenology and hysteria in the dorm lounge, where nobody ever goes. God, these books are great. I've found three, one of which is just a collection of Victorian medical papers about mental illnesses--there's even a little chart. I now have a new excuse to prod my head. "I'm learning about my character flaws!"
Victoriana Class is now my favorite class. We're doing poetry; right now it's Robert Browning, with "Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti to break it up a little. Prof. Alton has encouraged me to find textual evidence in "Porphyria's Lover" that "the moment she was mine, mine, fair/Perfectly pure and good" indicates that he strangled her at the moment of orgasm, and that the Duke in "My Last Duchess" had his lady killed because he thought she was having an affair with a man of lower rank, not just because he was a snob and she wasn't. I also appear to be the first person to ever compare "Goblin Market" to "Labyrinth." (We must not look at goblin men. Especially not at their bulging, Spandex-covered fruits.)

Ah, what was the point of this extra little entry? Yes, I remember! Valentine's Day challenge for me! evillunch has embarked upon one, and I feel I ought to do something special too.

Here's mine: I will write a little poem, a couplet, quatrain, limerick, or haiku, about your choice of kink, fetish, or pairing, for the first fourteen people that comment here. Or whoever after that, really. I will attempt to do it by Valentine's Day, and post the results then.

Comments

[diraskyria.livejournal.com]

For your report, I might have you borrow that Spofford book now. She works a lot with insanity and altered states of mind, so it could provide an interesting primary source of such things in literature of the time.

Meanwhile, Gilf and Taya. They're the only two I feel have been developed enough to really warrent enough connection with. Unless you want to be a brat and surprise me with some random slash instead. I'd accept that, I think. :P hehe.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Oooooooh yes please.

:considering the question of Gilf and Taya: I might just surprise you instead; I'm still not totally sure that I want to embark upon character slash until SiaC is finished, just for completist reasons. But I'll try.