[ SECRET POST #2363 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2363 ⌋

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Comments

[othellia]

Or Petrarch:

“He looks in vain for heavenly beauty, he
Who never looked upon her perfect eyes,
The vivid blue orbs turning brilliantly”

Mind you, I actually hurled my high school English book across my room when I read that. I hated that "True Love" unit...

[aubry]

Oh, man. I'd forgotten that Petrarch used it legit. I always thought of Dune when I heard that line.

Shakespeare does it too, of course. Doesn't Titania 'dew her orbs upon the green'?

(The Keats is fake. I libeled him.)

[othellia]

Haha, I got that your first line was sarcastic, but I have to admit the fake!Keats went completely over my head.

It kind of reminds me of "it was a dark and stormy night": fine when it first came out, but rather overplayed by now. Of course, I'm still not sure how prevalent its use outside of fanfic is. I tend to avoid the actual published romance genre, where I assume the primary culprits lie.

[(Anonymous)]

I've read romance novels for years, from bodice rippers when I was too young to read that stuff to Elizabeth Lowell. And none of them, to my knowledge, have ever typed the phrase "it was a dark and stormy night."

[othellia]

Whoops, sorry confusing subject bounce around. I meant the use of "orbs" in romance novels, not "it was a dark and stormy night."

[aubry]

How about dark and stormy knights?

[(Anonymous)]

I believe that's supposed to be implied with "stony gazes" and "brooding stares". :)

[truxillogical]

Titania's fair handmaidens "dew her orbs upon the green."

Literally.

They literally place orbs of dew upon the grass.

"And I serve the fairy queen//and dew her orbs upon the green//the cowslips tall her pensioners be//and in their gold-spotted coats you see//those be rubies, fairy favours//and in their freckles live the savors//I'll go seek some dew-drops here//and hang a pear in every cowslip's ear."

EDIT: *durk* just pay me no mind, I saw MSND and went with it. I am well and truly trolled.

[aubry]

I should learn that online you can Google shit first to stop yourself looking a twit. I half remembered the line, and feared it was one of his dodgy crying metaphors.

Well, my rep here is shot. But Shakespeare's redeemed by it, so I guess that's the better outcome.

ETA: Oh no! I could have gotten away with it! Feck! ;)