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[03 Mar 2012|10:15pm] |
erm, hello, you've reached the voicemail of remus j. lupin. i'm sorry i missed you, however if you leave your name and number at the -- well, you know, subsequent, er, beep -- i will get back to you as soon as possible. which is to say, as soon as i check my messages. uhm, thank you for enduring these overlong instructions you probably didn't need.
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| REMUS J. NEVER THOUGHT HE'D CATCH THIS LOVEBUG AGAIN. |
[17 Jul 2009|08:23pm] |
I've just finished Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. It was so mind-bogglingly, impossibly, chilled-down-to-the-marrow depressing that while finishing it up, I almost didn't mind the girl in the coffee shop who was playing that song by the Jonas Brothers so loudly on her cell phone. If only to know that there are still pop groups somewhere in the world who remain "hopeless, breathless, baby, can't you see" even when Thomas Hardy seems so intent on proving that life is not worth the breath it takes to live.
It was beautiful writing, though. It's almost difficult to reconcile the graceful, immaculate style of his sentences with the why-bother-even-waking-up-in-the-morning sentiment in their content. But it did make the pages worth turning, if nothing else.
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