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I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Fri Jul 19, 2013 9:42 pmby Regan Rourke
All around the manor, posters from "The Literature Club" for "Literary History Month" had appeared. Each one features a short biography on "Vita Sackville-West" accompanied by a bit of verse:
She was wearing the coral taffeta trousers
Someone had brought her from Ispahan,
And the little gold coat with pomegranate blossoms,
And the coral-hafted feather fan;
But she ran down a Kentish lane in the moonlight,
And skipped in the pool of the moon as she ran.
She cared not a rap for all the big planets,
For Betelgeuse or Aldebaran,
And all the big planets cared nothing for her,
That small impertinent charlatan;
But she climbed on a Kentish stile in the moonlight,
And laughed at the sky through the sticks of her fan.
The fact that they were all done in ghost poster board and paints gave a clue to the author.
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Sat Jul 20, 2013 12:09 amby Aisha Khan
Aisha stood in front of the poster, reading it curiously.
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Sat Jul 20, 2013 12:59 pmby Roland Sackville
"If they weren't in ghost-paint, I would have suspected this to be the work of Ms. Bludwynd."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Sat Jul 20, 2013 10:53 pmby Aisha Khan
"Is she a relative of your's?" Aisha asked.
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Sun Jul 21, 2013 4:36 pmby Roland Sackville
"Ms. Bloodwynd? No, not at all," Roland said, intentionally missing the point.
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Mon Jul 22, 2013 1:19 amby Aisha Khan
"No, Vita Sackville-West." Aisha said
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Mon Jul 22, 2013 5:44 pmby Roland Sackville
"Perhaps, distantly -- it's not the most common name in the world, certainly."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Tue Jul 23, 2013 1:20 amby Aisha Khan
"Yeah, and you probably have a lot of descendents that you don't even know about."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Tue Jul 23, 2013 2:44 pmby Roland Sackville
"Why, you could even be one, you know."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Tue Jul 23, 2013 11:53 pmby Aisha Khan
"Its possible." Aisha said "Not likely, unless you made it to India, but possible."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Wed Jul 24, 2013 12:12 amby Roland Sackville
"Oh, I spent some time in the Orient AND India. I've been around almost every place you can think of."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Wed Jul 24, 2013 12:55 amby Aisha Khan
"Really? When were you there?"
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Wed Jul 24, 2013 1:11 amby Roland Sackville
"Oh, geez...let's see, that'd be...3800 in the Kali Yuga? Somewhere thereabouts?"
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Wed Jul 24, 2013 1:28 amby Aisha Khan
"Aaaand that date means nothing to me." Aisha said.
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Wed Jul 24, 2013 2:07 amby Roland Sackville
"You'll have to forgive me, I'm no good at converting calenders. Umm..."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Wed Jul 24, 2013 2:58 amby Aisha Khan
"Its ok." Aisha said "I can google it later."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Wed Jul 24, 2013 3:03 amby Roland Sackville
Roland looked blankly at her.
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Wed Jul 24, 2013 3:07 amby Aisha Khan
"I can look it up, on the internet." Aisha said
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Wed Jul 24, 2013 3:11 pmby Roland Sackville
"The internet has a calender, now?"
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Wed Jul 24, 2013 5:02 pmby Aisha Khan
"There are a bunch of web pages that will do date conversions." Aisha said, trying to be patient "Or that list the equivalent dates."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Wed Jul 24, 2013 5:04 pmby Roland Sackville
"Huh. I should check that out. 'Google', you said?"
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:10 amby Aisha Khan
"Google is a search engine, thats a computer program that comes up with a list of websites that might have the information you are looking for." Aisha said, trying to be helpful.
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:24 amby Roland Sackville
"Yes, I can see how that would be helpful. Is it a combustion engine?"
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:47 amby Aisha Khan
".....no...." Aisha said "That is just what that kind of program is called. Its not a mechanical thing."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:52 amby Roland Sackville
"Then why call it that?"
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 2:15 amby Aisha Khan
"I'm not sure." Aisha said "Probably someone trying to come up with a clever name."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 2:17 amby Roland Sackville
"Too-clever people. That's been the bane of my existance, you know. Especially with computers. Engines, windows, desktops, apples -- nothing's what they say it is."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 2:37 amby Aisha Khan
"Desktops are." Aisha says "It means a computer small enough to fit on a desktop, instead of one that fills a room." she paused "And Apple is just the name of the company."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 3:00 amby Roland Sackville
"I thought a desktop was the screen thingy?"
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 3:04 amby Aisha Khan
"Now the screen and the keyboard sit on the desk, and the computer is next to it, or something." Aisha said "But back in the old days, it was all one unit."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:11 pmby Roland Sackville
"You're lecturing me about the old days?" Roland said, raising an eyebrow.
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:04 pmby Aisha Khan
"Well, kinda." Aisha said "You must not have been paying much attention to new technology then, or you'd remember."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:25 pmby Roland Sackville
"I know all about new technology! Pistons and gas and radar and rockets and whatnot."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 7:26 pmby Aisha Khan
"I was thinking of um, newer new technology."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 7:46 pmby Roland Sackville
"Like the microwave?"
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 7:49 pmby Aisha Khan
"That era, anyway." Aisha said
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 7:52 pmby Roland Sackville
"You're calling that short period of time an "era"?"
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:12 pmby Aisha Khan
"....yeah....I'm pretty sure most people do."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:15 pmby Roland Sackville
"No, the Napoleonic era was an era."
Re: I12DT: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
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Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:31 pmby Aisha Khan
"And the post-WWII era was also an era."