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impure_tale ([personal profile] impure_tale) wrote2011-09-07 11:17 pm

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I find myself in better spirits of late. Renate does not tire me so easily on her walks any longer, though they are still rather trying. I do not go into the enclosure without my cane because I will find myself leaning upon it sooner or later. The pain returns like clockwork, but not so intensely. Often in other ways, as though the small ruptures in bone are not the problem so much as every organ, nerve, and sliver of muscle around them are working especially hard not to come into contact with them. It's a feeling of strain, most certainly.

Not the manner of agony I would use to inspire me, I'm afraid. I would thank Monsieur Sexby again but I fear at present all he shall do is stare at me blankly, like a cow at an oncoming coach. I cannot trouble myself with such things as memory loss, for I am feeling nostalgic.

I remember when I first came to the barge I found myself rather smitten with an innocent young Warden who had come aboard, by name of Giselle. It is so very, very rare that I feel the impulse to slip away from my familiar and comfortable perversions, the amusement that comes of shocking the more conservative, of discourse with persons given to a greater plane of understanding when it comes to my playful eccentricities. On occasion yes, even I find myself desirous of the preservation of more...innocent inclinations. Giselle was one such individual, perhaps because her innocence was so very genuine. This might come of the fact that she seemed to have existed in a world free of the evils that scarred the cratered, bloodsopped landscape that was my first life. I deigned to offer my arm as a gentleman would. I spoke sweet odes, wooed her as I would the gentle ladies and courtesans of my youth, tried ever-so-hard not to permit my body its characteristic stirrings when she would throw my arms about my neck and embrace me, trusting always my intentions and never knowing the struggles that come of traitorous bloodflow. It was some months before I no longer suffered such instinctual responses, and our relationship had changed considerably, understandably.

She and my Paviche, perhaps my two great loves aboard this ship, and of two very different breeds. My mind is too often set upon my work and little else. I rather think I would relish my next glorious pursuit, and so long as my dear Prefect is content to continue playing hard to get, I suppose I shall have to choose another, oui?

L'amour, my barge. We should all benefit from a little more of it in our lives.

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[identity profile] paranoidcreator.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
...You don't know the beat-

[This is a crime. Kevin switches the post over to audio. He has no idea what you're talking about Marquis-but.]

Okay, just listen to the song.

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[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
How sentimental. I suppose I can see the charm, but the tune does plod a bit, doesn't it?

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[identity profile] paranoidcreator.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Well no hold on, they're not the only great band in the sixties, they're just the one with the best message.

Check this one out.

[There is another click and the radio starts up with "Imagine".]

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[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Again, I can understand the appeal. This one at least isn't paced as though they're trying to unstick their horse from the mud.

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[identity profile] paranoidcreator.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
The Beatles are classics. Them and Areosmith. The sixties had all the best be music.

[He might be challenged now] What kind of music do you like to listen to?
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[personal profile] raisedinabox 2011-09-08 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
Areosmith? They're not eve

[Scribbled out before he's even finished writing it. Because arguing with people over music isn't a mature use of his time.

EVEN IF HE REALLY WANTS TOO.]
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[personal profile] raisedinabox 2011-09-08 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
He's only playing you the slow ones. How about this:

[Lol, sorry Marquis, enjoy him holding his communicator to the tape player for a rendition of Help.]