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[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

[Sebastian has been playing croquet, but now he looks almost thoughtful as he sits down on a desk on the Plane and swings his feet back and forth]

I don't like to ask questions without a specific audience, as soliloquies seem so lonely and monologues are simply a bore, but I was wondering if singing fish can live in lakes or if they must have fountains as their habitats? I have never had a singing fish before, so I do not know myself, except that honey helps them when they get sick. They sing very prettily.

[he twines a thread from Aloysius's scarf around his finger]

Aloysius might try to eat them, so it's important they move somewhere safer.

Comments

[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

I meant the lot of you. You really mustn't be so literal.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

Forgive me. It's part of my nature. [though sometimes, it's part of his nature to take things literally just to annoy the other person.]

[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

Is talking figuratively another thing your people aren't very good at doing? Perhaps it has something to do with you and your emotions. Poetry is of course the realm of the emotional, and figurative language is the heart of poetry. How self-demonstrative. But then I suppose literal poetry would be incredibly dull and flat, and not in the least bit obscure, which is so important in poesy. You must take up writing poetry! It will help you with your feelings.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

I actually meant that to be literal, but...poetry? [such creativity is not encouraged! it's a cry of individuality!] I am not so certain that's something for me, Sebastian.

[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

Oh, go on, Straxus! Give it a try! It can't hurt. [Sebastian is quite pleased by this very clever idea of his to help Straxus in his clear aesthetic deficiencies] I'll be your audience and you can read it to me.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

Would you give me an example?

[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

I can't. I haven't any to give.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

[possibly misunderstanding him] Can't think of any off the top of your head?

[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

No, I can't. Poetry isn't my thing. I don't ever try to remember any of it, because no one brings it up except the people who like it, and those people memorize it, so why should I when I know they will? And I've no real interest in making art for myself. Aloysius has all the talent between us.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

You have no...feelings to express through such a medium?