"Not even eternity will hold Houdini!"

I'm hesitant to really talk about my NaNoNovel '10 much except with close friends, mainly because I don't want to snuff my creativity and/or enthusiasm for a pivotal scene between two characters in the middle of the book. The song is erm, like a triple entrende.

I wait at the table
And hold hands with weeping strangers
Wait for you
To join the group

The tambourine
Jingle-jangle
The medium roams and rambles
Not taken in
I break the circle

I want this man to go away now

With a kiss
I'd pass the key
And feel your tongue
Teasing and receiving

With your spit
Still on my lip
You hit the water

Him and I in the room
To prove you are with us too

He's using code that only you and I know
This is no trick of his
This is your magic

I'd catch the cues
Watching you
Hoping you'd do something wrong

Everybody thinks you'll never make it
But every time
You escape:

'Rosabelle believe,
Not even eternity
Can hold Houdini!'

"Rosabelle, believe!"

Through the glass
I'd watch you breathe
("Not even eternity--")
Bound and drowned
And paler than you've ever been
("--will hold Houdini!")

With your life
The only thing in my mind--
We pull you from the water!

(Houdini!)

You ("Hou-di-ni...")
And I
And Rosabelle believe

~Houdini~
~Kate Bush~

In other news... my mind is blown. I didn't pay much attention to the Inception theme before, but shit. Oh shit oh shit oh shit.

Also, Piers Anthony is a sexist creep and I'm glad I never read any of his books. Including this one, where a five-year-old voluntarily has sex with a grown man and it's treated as a GOOD thing.

Visual access to underwear - Because underwear is so closely tied to sexuality (even more so than nudity in Xanth), men become automatically "freaked out" when they view panties. This is made a common joke, most prominently in the novel The Color of Her Panties, and is often used by women to gain advantage over men. Panties only carry their effects when worn, but because of their nature, they are forbidden to be shown to children.

WHAT. WHAT.

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Man, the comments on my last post were sheer entertainment. ;D Sometimes I feel bad for having such a sheltered childhood, but reading these actually make me feel grateful. XD It's fun listening to what other people think, even though I'm at a loss for words myself.

Speaking of books I'm glad I missed, I would've thrown The Last Herald Mage trilogy against the walls and stomp on it to death. Talk about everything I hate in GLBT novels! So much contrived coincidences for the excuse of needless drama too. And it's only the first book! Yet reading people's reviews and reactions makes me lol. They ease the pain of the melodramatic WAAAAAAAANGST and make it funny. ;D

Huh. I found an email in my inbox that said, "Merry Christmas from Red and Yellow." My thoughts immediately went to PokeSpecial, and I thought, "Huh? Who's writing this to me? :o" Then it turns out it was sent by the M&Ms company. CURSE YOU SPAM.

I would've liked it if Red & Yellow wished me a Merry Christmas though. ;_;