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Alice Morgan ([personal profile] nihilo) wrote2011-10-10 02:14 pm

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[ She sounds breathless, breathy, terribly in awe: ]

Most of the universe is terra incognita.

Unknown, never to be discovered if not for its indelible pull on what we can see. What we conceive is only a mere five percent, a fragment. The rest is guesswork.

Here, there, [ sigh ] everywhere be dragons.
commandsthewind: (Pleasant | eyes like a child)

[personal profile] commandsthewind 2012-10-10 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Elizabeth listens as the other woman talks, not that half ear she gives courtiers, but proper attention.]

But that is the beauty of it, is it not? The far great beyond, without definition, even there are dragons there...

... there is hope, that there will be more than just dragons. There will be that in which a whole new self can be constructed.
commandsthewind: (Sitting | a legacy of comfort)

[personal profile] commandsthewind 2012-10-10 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
Because without definition, we know no pain, but we know no happiness either.
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[personal profile] commandsthewind 2012-10-10 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
They say a deep pain burns where love used to be.

That is assuming that love is a happiness at all. [and in Elizabeth's experience, it was just a bitterness.] Not that is the only happiness to be had in life.

Pain and happiness to compliment each other, but I do not think one needs to be present or not present in the other. Sometimes happiness is unexpected after all.
commandsthewind: (Talk | love don't really mean a thing)

[personal profile] commandsthewind 2012-10-11 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
I think that depends on the person. But truly, many little happiness do not make up a true deep one.

[Elizabeth bits her lip, thinking over her words again.] A little pain is ignorable, depending on the pain itself.
commandsthewind: (Stride | don't do love ; don't do friend)

[personal profile] commandsthewind 2012-10-11 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Love is a bad example. [there's old pain in her voice, for that part.] Love is something that is beyond simple definitions of happiness and pain.
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[personal profile] commandsthewind 2012-10-17 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
I am sure there is some tortured poet that insists so. [she shakes her head, amused over that briefly.]

No, I think that is a poor description of love. It has parts pain and happiness, but more besides that. It has too much faith in it.