That is pretty much what I thought myself - though it is kind of a hard question to answer, because I can't help the dreams from happening, and those can be just as privacy-breaking as a reading...
Yeah, but that's more like . . . accidentally walking in on somebody naked, or something. Maybe not. But it's not something you're doing on purpose, anyway. When you read for someone, you're actually sitting down and saying, OK, I want to know about this person. Which would be, to extend the bad metaphor, like lying in wait for somebody to be naked and taking pictures of them. So, in the first case, you should probably apologize to them if it bothers them, but it'd be a lot bigger invasion of privacy to do the second one.
And yet, sometimes lying in wait for someone and taking potentially-naked-pictures of them is funny and not horrible. Or at least, pictures of them using a dress as a towel. ;)
I am sorry I missed it. Well, sort of. I like you, but I have no real want to see you in any state of undress. Or, I suppose in a state of dress, in this case.
I think it might be if you don't ask, but you can do mine whenever you feel the urge to do so. What if you did them for celebrities or for entities like the church or the government and things like that? Or fictional characters. You could tell us what happens at the end of the Wheel of Time series!
Oh, I know what happens at the end of the Wheel of Time. Robert Jordan is disgustingly wealthy, and then is murdered by a mob of angry fans who have had their intelligence insulted and their time wasted.
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That series was fantastic for the first few books. Now... *shudder* Maybe it is just the translation quality. Maybe the English ones are better?
Min already told us what happens at the end of the Wheel of Time series. The real trick is predicting how many more books it'll be nefore we get there, and whether the last one will take two thousand pages to cover fifteen minutes in the life of a hundred different characters, all of whom have single-shot differentiating mannerisms and (for the women) lavishly described necklines.
Hrm. Good point. Min was cool until she started wearing dresses again. Aviendha was cool while she was still hating Rand. Elayne...not so cool. Faile is been and _gone_ from cool.
And there's nothing wrong with appreciating necklines, but yeah, I think Jordan takes it a little far.
I am suddenly overcome with the thought that the only thing keeping me from the label of 'nerd' is that I do not play video games and I have leather pants.
Well . . . hm. McCaffrey on a bad day is right around there. Eddings is sort of a different genre of bad, if you know what I mean--he's bad about repetitive plots and national stereotypes, but he has some pretty good dialogue and he isn't teenybopper horsie-birdie-love environmentalist-sledgehammer shallow simplisticism.
Maybe if you get a list of people who don't mind you doing a reading, so you have more to practice with? This post is turning out that way any way...
And you already know I don't mind you using me as a guinea pig. Tho' next time maybe we stick to something that's easier to clean up than the I Ching straws. Or I throw them a bit less hard...
And if it don't work, you have yourself a new pet. *grins* Let me find out if it requires special fortune-telling mice, or whether regular pet shop mice are okay. ;)
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Date: 2004-04-12 02:25 pm (UTC)...
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Date: 2004-04-12 02:28 pm (UTC)But in specific, feel free on my end. Just tell me if you get anything cool. :)
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Date: 2004-04-12 02:34 pm (UTC)I need to deal with this. I need to think about these things. I just do not -want- to. Ugk.
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Date: 2004-04-12 02:42 pm (UTC)Although I gotta admit, that was pretty funny. :)
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Date: 2004-04-12 02:50 pm (UTC)I wonder if Kitty ever wangled the poster out of him that you were trying to threaten me with?
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Date: 2004-04-12 02:35 pm (UTC)...
That series was fantastic for the first few books. Now... *shudder* Maybe it is just the translation quality. Maybe the English ones are better?
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Date: 2004-04-12 05:10 pm (UTC)And there's nothing wrong with appreciating necklines, but yeah, I think Jordan takes it a little far.
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Date: 2004-04-12 08:21 pm (UTC)(I went through a very brief extreme-escapism phase right after my mutation kicked in. Also, the cover art had babes on it. But good God.)
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Date: 2004-04-12 10:43 pm (UTC)I am suddenly overcome with the thought that the only thing keeping me from the label of 'nerd' is that I do not play video games and I have leather pants.
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Date: 2004-04-12 10:50 pm (UTC)Well . . . hm. McCaffrey on a bad day is right around there. Eddings is sort of a different genre of bad, if you know what I mean--he's bad about repetitive plots and national stereotypes, but he has some pretty good dialogue and he isn't teenybopper horsie-birdie-love environmentalist-sledgehammer shallow simplisticism.
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Date: 2004-04-12 05:46 pm (UTC)Min ...
... I am suddenly glad my precognition doesn't work like THAT!
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Date: 2004-04-12 11:28 pm (UTC)The nightmares happen all by themselves.
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Date: 2004-04-13 08:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-12 11:23 pm (UTC)And you already know I don't mind you using me as a guinea pig. Tho' next time maybe we stick to something that's easier to clean up than the I Ching straws. Or I throw them a bit less hard...
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Date: 2004-04-12 11:29 pm (UTC)The straws were funny. I still want mice. Myomancy is just too funny -not- to try.
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Date: 2004-04-13 12:19 am (UTC)