Two Memes

[rymenhild]

From deborah_judge:
You are Melancholy - The ancient Greeks believed this was caused by having too much black bile.

Strengths:
You are serious, analytical, idealistic and conscientious.

Weaknesses:
You can be moody, introspective, and hard to please.

At your best:
You are a creative planner.

At your worst:
You can be a gloomy nit-picker.

You measure your own value by:
Activity

For personal growth, you should focus on:
Decision making

For others to relate well to you, they should be:
Accurate

Others should support your:
Principles

If someone wants you to make a decision, they should give:
Facts.



What Ancient Greek Personality Type Are You?
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That's pretty accurate, actually, although I'm not in love with all facts all of the time.



linaerys' book meme, from daegaer:

linaerys said: "I'm redoing the book meme that's going around, or restarting it. I'm listing twenty of my favorite books. They are just the first twenty that came to mind. Whomever takes it, bold the ones you've read, and add a few more, but none with the same authors as those already listed."

1. The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley
2. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
3. Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint
4. Parliament of Whores by P. J. O'Rourke
5. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
6. The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
7. The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny
8. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
9. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
10. White Oleander by Janet Fitch
11. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
13. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
14. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
15. Paradise Lost by John Milton I'm currently about a third of the way through.
16. The Stand by Stephen King
17. Imajica by Clive Barker
18. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
19. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
20. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
21. The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
22. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
23. Possession by A.S. Byatt
24. A Graveyard for Lunatics by Ray Bradbury
25. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
26. The Magus by John Fowles
27. Replay by Ken Grimwood
28. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
29. Breakup by Dana Stabenow
30. The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley
31. Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh
32. Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault
33. Fix Bay'nets! by George Manville Fenn
34. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
35. The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Penman

My additions:
36. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
37. The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck No reason not to list poetry...
38. The Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
39. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
40. Beowulf
41. The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede
42. The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
43. The Riddlemaster of Hed by Patricia McKillip
44. The Sarantine Mosaic by Guy Gavriel Kay

Comments

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, it's getting long again. Should I, then, just put the ones I'd like to add to the meme? (sighs)
And I was phlegmatic. Ah the Greeks.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

50ish is decent. 200 is too much.

Wimp

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

It was 374 by the time I did it. ;-)

[concordantnexus.livejournal.com]

I was melancholy (unsurprising)

[caffeinediary.livejournal.com]

how did i know you would have fantasy books on your list?

Did you know that a new King Arthur movie is coming out next month? I'm seeing it with Jen.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Yes. I know.

I found the Book of the Movie in a Barnes&Noble last time I was there... it was (a) badly written and (b) WRONG. Let's just say that if you refer to Guinevere as a Pictish princess, and then say that the Picts are a pre-Celtic Amazonian matriarchal society, you have made at least one genuine mistake, one dubious assignment of character to culture, and two statements which may just possibly be true but are based on no historical evidence whatsoever.

That being said, Guinevere is to be played by a scantily dressed Keira Knightley, so it may be worth seeing for that alone.

[caffeinediary.livejournal.com]

yes the pretty!will make it worth it. :) I won't take the movie on face value alone now that I know this. but the pretty is good.

[ex-greythist387.livejournal.com]

I was deeply amused when one of my students mentioned the film to me in April, and another said, "Don't they make Arthur a Roman? That's, like, wrong."

My work here is done.

Actually, their Roman bit seems based on Linda Malcor and whatsit's book about the Sarmatian origins of Arthur, which has been pimped early and often on Arthurnet (by Malcor). I haven't read it. Still doesn't legitimize the strange combinations of stuff they've done.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Where are those photos, hmm?

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

What, of scantily dressed Keira Knightley? (completely reassesses Fleurdelis28) I am sure I could find you some.

(dodges flying torts)

Oh you mean those pictures. No idea.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Torts themselves are expensive but weightless. It's the torts textbooks you should look out for...

[deborah-judge.livejournal.com]

You are serious, analytical, idealistic and conscientious.

Good characteristics for an academic.

You can be a gloomy nit-picker.

Also a good characteristic for an academic.

;) Happy procrastination.

[the-paper-nun.livejournal.com]

I'm Choleric! Wow, that makes me sound diseased..

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Melancholy makes me sound depressed, so, we're even.