Sail, that's a gorgeous couplet. The only shooting-down I can possibly think of is that Peter S. Beagle already wrote a supernatural/beyond the grave romance called A Fine and Private Place, but it's a pretty long poem and a pretty great novel, so (a) there may be other title-worthy lines, and (b) Amy may be already planning on nodding to Beagle anyway... which makes for a spectacular failure of down-shooting.
Zoe: My man would never fall for that. Wash: Most of my head wishes I had.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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JZ - Mar 20, 2008 2:07:04 pm PDT #9937 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Ginger - Mar 20, 2008 3:48:17 pm PDT #9938 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Sail, it reminded me of "To His Coy Mistress" as well, but it has been heavily mined for titles. I played with the idea of something from the last two lines:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
Something like "Make Our Sun Stand Still."
I don't think my favorite lines, the twist the metaphysical poets so loved, would be appropriate.
"[T]hen worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
Laga - Mar 20, 2008 3:51:14 pm PDT #9939 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
ooh how about Worms Shall Try
javachik - Mar 20, 2008 4:17:18 pm PDT #9940 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Sigh.
Peter S. Beagle changed my life with his thin little book about driving mopeds across the States.
SailAweigh - Mar 20, 2008 4:57:57 pm PDT #9941 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Ginger, I thought about those lines, too!
Dusty Virginity
Wormy Lust
Lust to Dust
Amy - Mar 20, 2008 5:28:42 pm PDT #9942 of 10001
Because books.
Lust to Dust! Bwah!
I think (I *think*) I'm going to be a total rebel and call it COLD KISS. My critique group tonight did that collective "ooooh" when I suggested it.
sj - Mar 20, 2008 5:34:09 pm PDT #9943 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
COLD KISS
I like this one.
Ginger - Mar 20, 2008 6:05:19 pm PDT #9944 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
If we're going to go that route...
Icy Grasp; Dead Hand; Grave Accent; A Grave Matter; Shallow Grave; Cold Feet; Heartless ("taken literally, incredibly gross"); Cold, Cold Heart; In Cold Blood; Deathless Prose; Deathless Love; Frozen Smile; Deadly Sins
Lee - Mar 23, 2008 5:43:35 am PDT #9945 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
The threads challenge is now closed.
This week's challenge is bunnies (or rabbits, if you prefer).
erikaj - Mar 23, 2008 2:41:05 pm PDT #9946 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
for the challenge: As she gets ready to move, she wonders if she should take them all; the fake furry creatures that shared her youth. Mickey and Minnie, Snoopy, lions and Easter rabbits. She loves animals but has only recently had her own pet, and every time she had a pang for her childhood cat, she added to her plush menagerie, and now it’s quite a zoo. There is a story attached to each one: holidays, zoo visits, the friends that gave them to her. But it seems kind of like tearing some hearthrob’s photo out of a magazine and planting big lusty kisses on it, at her age, to carry that stuff around again. Maybe she should pass them on and let some other girl make her own story.