An Excuse for a Post

Juliet is left-handed.

Around 13 years after its release, I finally get to watch Baz Luhrmann's Romeo x Juliet.

Great movie. :D

However, as I am bad with movie reviews and all, I shall make this into a quote post. ^^,

"He was a soldier, and if anyone had asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he wouldn't have known what they meant."

This line here is what endeared the little Bean to softhearted lil me. Awwwwe. Etc.

Anyway, since I have a headache right now and am basically making this post for the reason spelled out by the permalink of this post, uhh... I don't really have much to say.

It was a very heart-wrenching line for me, and I'm not being sarcastic here. I do, in fact, have a heart, that can, in fact, be wrenched.

My head aches away my blogging strength. This kind of implies that I actually use my head for blogging. This is where speculations on the nature of the contents of my head begin.

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Speaker for the Dead

I finished reading Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card two days ago (I think). It probably isn't as high on the list of great books in my head as Ender's Game, but it was still brilliant! Right now, I still think Card is a genius! Even though I read somewhere that he wanted to cast Dakota Fanning as Petra for the Ender's Game movie. o_O Ahem, anyway...
Well, the book's impression on me wasn't as strong as Ender's Game, but I think that's because this book had a different aura from Ender's Game to begin with. Here we meet Ender, all grown up, Speaker for the Dead, wandering from planet to planet. He really grew up. He changed a lot. He's so different from the kid Ender in the book I held onto for comfort so many times. He's still the same in some ways, I guess. But, I read Ender's Game so many times that the Ender there has become a friend, in a way. So, I guess I just miss that kid. :D
I already read Beginnings in Ender's Universe before this, so I already met Jane there. I really like that character! She's so funny. ^___^
Well, I'm really bad at talking about books, so I guess I'll just share a couple of quotes~
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Pipo shrugged. "So? Sometime or other everybody wishes everybody would go away. Sometimes I'll wish you would go away. What I'm telling you now is that even at those times, even if I tell you to go away, you don't have to go away. It was the most bafflingly perfect thing that anyone had ever said to her. "That's crazy."
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Maybe she [Ela] couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.
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I really liked this one 'cuz a few hours before I read it, I was thinking something similar. ^_^

Ouanda: "In YOUR judgment." Ender: "I have no one else's judgment to use."
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"...And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we're that sure, we call it knowledge. We bet our lives on it."
-Ender Wiggins-
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And just 'cuz I really like Jane~

"Twisted and perverse are the ways of then human mind. Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head."
-Jane-
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I'm kinda' sad that Ender and Jane had to lose each other like that. I mean, okay, Jane's a computer... But really... She was JANE. Ender's computer. Ender's friend. Ender's constant companion. Ender's source of instant sardonic humor!
Oh well~

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Disclaimer(s), etc:

1. I don't claim what isn't mine as my own.
2. New Disclaimer, wow.

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Save, Kill - Kill, Save

Takeuchi Rio: (thought) "No way! I've fallen right into Otouto-san's plan?!"
Narumi Ayumu: "You couldn't read it? That must be it. You've given priority to kill me. And I've given priority to save her. There lies the difference."
-Spiral ~Suiri no Kizuna~ Volume 04, Chapter 19: "All You Can Do"-

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Thoughts:
Killing is an act of desperation.
You fight to bring someone else down instead of surpassing him/her/himher/it.
You fight to make someone else lose instead of aiming to win. Granted, you will have to defeat people to win against them, but actions are always stronger when based on positively-oriented verbs (i.e. win, save, surpass).
Recognizing this is the key to gaining satisfaction in your achievements and living a happy and contented life.

Cynical Thoughts:
That is nothing but turning a blind eye to the dark side of reality.
It's like saying, "On your way up the ladder of the human race, count not the faces you step on, but the number of steps you take."
~Which, in the end, are equal, equivalent, and, well, the same.
So the concept of always keeping in mind positively-oriented verbs for the rainy days is similar to the concept people use to come up with terms such as: Special Child, Differently-Abled, and, the most uplifiting of them all, Vertically Challenged.
There is nothing to better slap people's faces with than names which reek of everyone's pity (not sympathy) for them.
Having to resort to such names means that one does not acknowledge the object of the term as his/her equal, as a fellow human being.

More Thoughts:
This quote can be pretty inspiring especially when you're caught up in the events of the manga and Ayumu's manga coolness.
But we must always remember that there is always a darker way of looking at everything.
I think it is best to evaluate or talk about quotes and other things once you're over that unconditional awe/opposite-of-awe you experience right after your encounter with that particular object/event/etc.
Like I said, talking about water you're in only leads to fishy-fish air bubbles.
And unless you can show me you can talk to your fish, I don't think I'll change my mind.
Plus, it's always more fun to talk about something when you're already capable of looking at it from different angles.
A nice analogy for a contrary situation to the above would be talking about a fishbowl while you're in it.
So, I guess the best choice is to accept both the dark and bright sides of stuff. You can always aim to save while keeping in mind that in doing so, it is likely that you will have to kill.
Also, killing an ant isn't exactly desperation, right? But using the word "save" does have its advantages.

End Thoughts:
But, we are always subject to emotions, so, uh, whatever. :P

Moral:
Better to save Cadbury and Nori-Flavored Potato Chips than positively-oriented verbs for the rainy days.

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Disclaimer(s), etc:

1. Not claiming what isn't mine.
2. The life of an ant is hard.
3. But we can always drop bits of Nori Potato Chips to help them a bit.
4. And crush them without mercy at the moment they touch us or our precious food or our unattached appendages (I consider my laptop keyboard and mouse to be unattached appendages).
5. Moji-me is working!! It isnt asleep anymore, nyahaha. Weird that it thinks I'm bored though. Oh well. It's cute. XD

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messiahship

I didn't know there was a noun for this until now.
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"When you're trying to save someone, you have to consider your own safety too.
If you can't say 'I'm happy that we're together' afterwards, then you weren't really able to save that someone."
-Rokujo Miharu-
-Nabari no Ou episode 4-

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'kay, so basically, I'm just trying to come up with random post material since I've been immersed in nothing but Saimono novel stuff for the past two days. I would have made that my material but... I have this belief that you shouldn't talk about water you're currently immersed in, or something like that. They'll just come out as air bubbles and I'll resemble fishy-fishy-fish over there in the bowl. Oh wait, our fish died days ago.
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This is totally unrelated, but there sure are a lot of silly unresonable people in this world. In fact, it sometimes gets to the point that even though you know that o_O-silly-unreasonable--ness isn't something that should ever change your blood temperature, somehow it's just too o_O that the temperature just drops to absolute zero and you're left to gape o_O at the paranormal phenomenon of o_O-silly-unreasonable--ness.
So is it better to have it boil and evaporate away instead in the hopes of a total renewing process for one's body fluids?
Well, just random thoughts from a spectator. I wasn't actually the one involved.
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Well, just a bit on Saimono, I guess. It seems that people's comments on the TLs about Reishin were almost always synonymous to "freaky jerk". Well, I guess that has some basis since he did want to marry Shuurei. *ahem*
Well, I think in the anime he only said it in passing but knowing Reishin, I wouldn't put it past him to be serious about marrying his niece. Okay, so he is a freaky weird character BUT, I never thought of him as a jerk. This is probably because I am inclined to liking highly-entertaining characters. And I don't think that I'm mistaken when I say that the entertainment value of Reishin's screentime is, like, 10 stars.
Well, thanks to the Gaiden TLs, it seems that Reishin, has other stuff aside from his entertainment value as his saving grace(s). Saimono novels are muuuch darker than the anime, really. IMO, this makes the funny moments funnier. :))
Also, Kouyuu's utter lack of any form of a sense of direction is explained. lol.
Poor Kouyuu. :(
Okay, I give up, I'm really laughing inside. :))
I take this opportunity to officially declare myself a Saimono fan!! Yeyey!!

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Disclaimer(s), etc:

1. I don't claim what isn't mine as mine.
2. The TL of the Nabari quote above is from Rumi subs. However, I took the liberty of modifying it. Not because I have better Japanese knowledge. My adjustment is mostly based on context.
3. weh.

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