"Leave All This To Yester-day..."
Dec. 2nd, 2004 12:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psalm_onethirtyoneMy computer is laughing at me. Exceeding hard.
It has just now come back to life again after freezing again &c &c you know the story. GAH.
Anyway, hi. To-day, Soujin's life was trying to eat her. She went to Stoneybridge, and it was only her and Linda, and Linda said unto her "Do not worry, for I shall help you! I shall be there until two, and I shall set up the two o'clock activity for you, and then help you out when I get back from my meeting! Lo, all shall be well!" Then Linda promptly disappeared, leaving Soujin to do the 00:30 activity alone, when it is one of the activities that frightens her most.
Soujin afterwards went out to do calenders, and lo! she finished five minutes are two; but she was secure in the knowledge that Linda had set the activity up for her. Lo! Linda had not done so. Linda was gone. Soujin she did not know where anything was, and she panicked, dammit, because she could not find anything! So she improvised! She pretended that lots of the plants needed repotting, and she got the only three residents who had showed up to help her plant these plants, and she did this for one hour, while they told her she was doing it all wrong. Lo! at three, Linda showed up, and put up the new whiteboard, and said nary a word unto Soujin.
Then Soujin cleaned up the room, which took her forty-five minutes, and had just time to get back so that she could fold fifty-eight brochures with a spelling error in them that made her OCD spaz, scream, and attempt to kill something, before she went out to run the 16:15 activity. Lo, and Linda had given her a think to do for that activity which Soujin, who has been working around these people for five months, knew they would not do. Accordingly, she covertly switched that activity for another one, which went smoothly because thank heavens Crystal showed up to take care of Bobby, and she joined into the activity.
Then, with five minutes left before Soujin had to GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE, she went off to deliver the mail, and indeed she managed to get it all done exactly on time except for Irma's letters. She wanted to tell Linda that Irma would never let her go, and she was so scared of Irma she felt faintly sick about going into her room, and that Irma always shouted at her; but Linda was gone again, so Soujin hurried into Irma's room.
LO! and Soujin finally left twenty minutes late. Then her Mum was angry at her, and she got into trouble.
On the plus side, she lost .6 pounds, and considering how many times her diet committed seppeku this week, that's not bad.
Oh, and Alberta likes her again, for no apparent reason.
It has just now come back to life again after freezing again &c &c you know the story. GAH.
Anyway, hi. To-day, Soujin's life was trying to eat her. She went to Stoneybridge, and it was only her and Linda, and Linda said unto her "Do not worry, for I shall help you! I shall be there until two, and I shall set up the two o'clock activity for you, and then help you out when I get back from my meeting! Lo, all shall be well!" Then Linda promptly disappeared, leaving Soujin to do the 00:30 activity alone, when it is one of the activities that frightens her most.
Soujin afterwards went out to do calenders, and lo! she finished five minutes are two; but she was secure in the knowledge that Linda had set the activity up for her. Lo! Linda had not done so. Linda was gone. Soujin she did not know where anything was, and she panicked, dammit, because she could not find anything! So she improvised! She pretended that lots of the plants needed repotting, and she got the only three residents who had showed up to help her plant these plants, and she did this for one hour, while they told her she was doing it all wrong. Lo! at three, Linda showed up, and put up the new whiteboard, and said nary a word unto Soujin.
Then Soujin cleaned up the room, which took her forty-five minutes, and had just time to get back so that she could fold fifty-eight brochures with a spelling error in them that made her OCD spaz, scream, and attempt to kill something, before she went out to run the 16:15 activity. Lo, and Linda had given her a think to do for that activity which Soujin, who has been working around these people for five months, knew they would not do. Accordingly, she covertly switched that activity for another one, which went smoothly because thank heavens Crystal showed up to take care of Bobby, and she joined into the activity.
Then, with five minutes left before Soujin had to GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE, she went off to deliver the mail, and indeed she managed to get it all done exactly on time except for Irma's letters. She wanted to tell Linda that Irma would never let her go, and she was so scared of Irma she felt faintly sick about going into her room, and that Irma always shouted at her; but Linda was gone again, so Soujin hurried into Irma's room.
LO! and Soujin finally left twenty minutes late. Then her Mum was angry at her, and she got into trouble.
On the plus side, she lost .6 pounds, and considering how many times her diet committed seppeku this week, that's not bad.
Oh, and Alberta likes her again, for no apparent reason.
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Date: 2004-12-02 07:28 pm (UTC)He leaves behind some hundreds of creamy seed pearls and the gold to help finance the sharifs of Mecca in their revolution.
He leaves behind the idea of revolution in Faisal's mind, where it grows like a pearl--layer on layer building around the irritation that is oppression.
He leaves behind a parting kiss on each of Faisal's cheeks, and they burn even after the stranger has disappeared into the darkness.
There will come a time when Prince Faisal will meet the British. There will come a time when he will ask them for more weaponry, or more money, or more respect, and each time, he will be told that all he asks for is coming--but not today.
He will come to distrust the men who think that they can milk the Arabs (for he uses that word now, in his heart of hearts) until blood comes from their teats. He will come to suspect the treaty that will cut his land into pieces and give and his people nothing at all. He will come to resent the British, who trade the slavery of the Turks for their own slavery.
He will come to use the British as weapons, just as they use him as weapons--he will come to make Lawrence of Arabia, and he will come to make use of that man. He will come to milk Lawrence until even the blood runs dry.
But despite his machinations, despite his plans, despite his readiness, he will come to learn that Captain Nemo was right. Would always be right.
They must not trust the British.
It will be a hard lesson.
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Date: 2004-12-02 07:43 pm (UTC)Lord, but I worship you. o_o Incredible. I love your style of writing, too, and the way it sounds, the way it travels through a sentence or a paragraph; the impact of a sentence when it's been given its own line. Gah.
YOU ARE SO WONDERFUL. OMG. *loves*