A dish best served cold....
Jun. 19th, 2011 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersOh, what I wouldn't give for an uninterrupted five four hours sleep. I do believe Madame feels much the same.
Perhaps next month.
When he's twenty I shall tease young Henry about many things: the number of attractive women taking his clothes off and peering at him intently; the nature of babies' explosive poo; the finicky and pernickety dining habits of the very young; and regurgitation as a form of ad hoc criticism for those yet to discover language. Nevertheless, without teasing or jest, I shall try to convey to him the sheer awfulness of doing without sleep for any length of time.
I'm planning how to guilt-trip the poor lad good and proper. It's not just boarding school that gives a young person a deformed psyche: it's the parents demanding their pound of flesh too. But I paraphrase the poet, Larkin. What Larkin misses in the process is the glee involved on the parents' part. :)
Perhaps next month.
When he's twenty I shall tease young Henry about many things: the number of attractive women taking his clothes off and peering at him intently; the nature of babies' explosive poo; the finicky and pernickety dining habits of the very young; and regurgitation as a form of ad hoc criticism for those yet to discover language. Nevertheless, without teasing or jest, I shall try to convey to him the sheer awfulness of doing without sleep for any length of time.
I'm planning how to guilt-trip the poor lad good and proper. It's not just boarding school that gives a young person a deformed psyche: it's the parents demanding their pound of flesh too. But I paraphrase the poet, Larkin. What Larkin misses in the process is the glee involved on the parents' part. :)
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Date: 2011-06-19 12:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-19 09:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-19 12:50 pm (UTC)They don't mean to, but they do . . . ."
Or even....
Date: 2011-06-19 09:15 pm (UTC)May not have meant to, but he did
With problems that he never had:
Now add some more of which you can't be rid....
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Date: 2011-06-20 12:11 pm (UTC)Up pops the categorical imperative.
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Date: 2011-06-21 08:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-21 08:40 pm (UTC)Oh well, it will just continue a family tradition.
:(
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Date: 2011-06-21 08:45 pm (UTC)