Date: 2017-02-10 04:54 am (UTC)
sovay: (I Claudius)
From: [personal profile] sovay
Time flies

Is this yours? It's amazing.

Date: 2017-02-10 04:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Yes it is! I'm very glad you like it!

Date: 2017-02-10 05:02 am (UTC)
sovay: (Cho Hakkai: intelligence)
From: [personal profile] sovay
Yes it is! I'm very glad you like it!

I asked only because it was a solid page rather than journal text. Seriously, I love it.

Date: 2017-02-10 05:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
No worries! I did it like that so I could use the excellent old font, which I don't know how to generate in HTML.

Date: 2017-02-12 08:25 am (UTC)
sovay: (I Claudius)
From: [personal profile] sovay
I did it like that so I could use the excellent old font, which I don't know how to generate in HTML.

It's a good font! It adds to the stateliness.
Edited Date: 2017-02-12 08:26 am (UTC)

Date: 2017-02-10 05:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zyzyly.livejournal.com
What a delightful read!

Date: 2017-02-10 05:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Thank you!

Date: 2017-02-10 07:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pigshitpoet.livejournal.com
LOL

i wish there were 'time flies' and i wish they ate alarm clocks and other time pieces like computers)))
Edited Date: 2017-02-10 07:12 am (UTC)

Date: 2017-02-10 02:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
If they did, then we'd be even more pressed for time! (Like in Michael Ende's Momo, where the grey men smoke people's time.) What we maybe need is time spiders, which could spin us more time.

Date: 2017-02-10 07:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yamamanama.livejournal.com
Thanks for reminding me to read Momo.

Date: 2017-02-11 01:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pigshitpoet.livejournal.com
i like the idea of more time..

spiders, you say

Date: 2017-02-11 08:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mnfaure.livejournal.com
Please send the ...flock...swarm...spinnering... hmmm, what does one call a group of spiders? "Google? Help, please!" *checks* Ah! Cluster or clutter. Please send a clutter of spiders to my home to give me more time to deal with my own clutter. :P

Edited to fix format.
Edited Date: 2017-02-11 08:22 am (UTC)

Date: 2017-02-11 02:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
A clutter of spiders! Gotta love those names for groups of things. Somehow "clutter" makes me think of "clatter," as if gatherings of spiders are always banging the pot lids and setting down the plates noisily.

If I had that power, I'd definitely send time spiders your way (along with an order to be discreet, so as not to alarm any spider-phobic member of your family--if you have anyone who's spider-phobic)

Date: 2017-02-10 02:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Why yes, I can take a small joke and beat it into submission ;-)

Date: 2017-02-10 01:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com
I love the word play and the deeper layers there. Lovely!

Date: 2017-02-10 02:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Thank you for reading!

Date: 2017-02-10 01:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queenoftheskies.livejournal.com
This is awesome!

Date: 2017-02-10 02:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Very glad you liked it--I aim to please!

Date: 2017-02-10 01:23 pm (UTC)
ext_12726: (afternoon tea)
From: [identity profile] heleninwales.livejournal.com
I love this! I especially love that you wrote it. :) Until I saw your reply in the comments, I thought you'd found a wonderful old whimsical piece written by a Great Name Author. It's very well done.

Date: 2017-02-10 02:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
:D Best compliment ever--thank you!

Date: 2017-02-11 08:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mnfaure.livejournal.com
This is what I thought, too, after the first paragraph, and then I thought, hey, wait, Francesca is definitely clever and erudite enough to have invented this. :P

Date: 2017-02-11 02:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Off to take some aspirin to reduce the swelling in my head :-)

Date: 2017-02-10 02:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amaebi.livejournal.com
...they gnaw at milliseconds....

Date: 2017-02-11 06:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
And if you get a time fly infestation, you feel *really* rushed.

Date: 2017-02-11 12:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amaebi.livejournal.com
Until they have nibbled too deep and you lose all momentum, floating, floating....

Date: 2017-02-11 01:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Yes, and when you're completely, absolutely out of time, you become atemporal--no rush whatsoever. It seems like absolute lack, but I think at that point you break into the opposite infinite: unending presence. Eternity as all-time-forever. All-time and no-time, both, are the opposite of [the passage of] time.

Date: 2017-02-11 02:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amaebi.livejournal.com
You can swim everywhere, but you have no ladders.

Date: 2017-02-10 03:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oiktirmos.livejournal.com
I thought I was reading Einstein.
Then I saw in the comment above that this was you.
I was reading Einstein.

Date: 2017-02-11 06:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
This comparison is very flattering! I think the real Einstein has a less fusty writing style, though :-)

Date: 2017-02-11 03:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oiktirmos.livejournal.com
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein

Date: 2017-02-11 08:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] khiemtran.livejournal.com
Love it! You know what's worse than ants at a picnic? Time flies when you're having fun...

Date: 2017-02-11 01:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Haha! Perfect!! Yes, time flies when you're having fun are definitely undesirable--where *does* the time go?
Edited Date: 2017-02-11 01:48 pm (UTC)

Date: 2017-02-11 06:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] khiemtran.livejournal.com
Although (thinking ahead here), if there was such a thing as time fly repellant...

Date: 2017-02-11 10:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Makes me think of the name of a comic book store in Cambridge, MA: the The Million Year Picnic (http://www.themillionyearpicnic.com). No time flies, so the picnic goes on and on.

Date: 2017-02-11 01:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heliopausa.livejournal.com
I enjoyed this! May I offer, as vaguely germane:
Times fly
Time flies not
Men die
Man dies not.

- E. Nesbit, Harding's Luck.

Oh, and I like the typeface. :)
Edited Date: 2017-02-11 01:33 pm (UTC)

Date: 2017-02-11 01:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Yes indeed--that's wonderful; thank you! Four lines that summon up all sorts of thoughts. Good on E. Nesbit! (I'm now recalling your review of the book)

Date: 2017-02-12 02:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] roseneko.livejournal.com
This is delightful and made Brian and I both laugh this morning when I read it to him. We appreciated the typeface as well. :)

Date: 2017-02-12 03:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
I love that you read it out to him--I love reading things out loud! Thank you.

Date: 2017-02-12 03:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] roseneko.livejournal.com
Me too! It's been a pretty integral part of our relationship for a decade-plus now. :)

Date: 2017-02-12 05:48 pm (UTC)

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