(no subject)

[lhexa]

The insane are being defanged.

Comments

[broken-bokken.livejournal.com]

Tell that to George Bush.

[lhexa.livejournal.com]

If somebody told him that, and if he does indeed have fangs, then telling him would be the wrong thing to do.

Humor is one way to defang ambition. And there are many people thinking of newer, more creative ways to make fun of Bush.

[guilen.livejournal.com]

Don't you think that sometimes humour just piles on the venom? (to use your charting)

GUILEN

[lhexa.livejournal.com]

Yes, it does sometimes. But there are many things to learn if you want to become a snake-charmer.

[guilen.livejournal.com]

and I do :)

GUILEN

[lhexa.livejournal.com]

You'll want to become many things. Stay true to your past, like I'm doing.

(This isn't a correction, by the way. This is me speaking as a friend.)

[guilen.livejournal.com]

there are horns on your head
and you'd be better off dead
than have horns on your head

[lhexa.livejournal.com]

Thanks, but I've figured that out already.

[guilen.livejournal.com]

I'm not offering advice, I'm being rhetorical

tsk tsk - not everything is said with a -reason- in mind

GUILEN

[lhexa.livejournal.com]

But assuming that everything has a reason is a good way of teaching. In fact, deliberately misunderstanding is, in general, a good way of teaching people how to understand.

[guilen.livejournal.com]

make the statement, to understand the rammifications of it, rather than not crossing anything at all?

I just had intense de ja vu. I take it as a good thing.

GUILEN

[guilen.livejournal.com]

now, is the being defanged a -good- thing?

GUILEN

[lhexa.livejournal.com]

For me it is. There are already thousands, if not more, of venomous but well-hidden people in the world. Maybe the world needs such people, but I think that the world also needs a person who's willing to give up all his secrets, and who has many interesting secrets to give up.

[guilen.livejournal.com]

MMMmmm...

you know, til this last year, I thought I was that person. The one who could bold enough to just let out everything. What a fucking windbag. Now I'm finding that my secrecy is a potent thing. I mean, when implemented intelligently - not because I feel like I have no choice.

I tell you what. You be the teacher, I'll be the venomous one *chuckles* If it can be arranged.

GUILEN

[lhexa.livejournal.com]

I will not be your teacher. Doing so would keep you from becoming a great musician. Seek gentler teachers.

(By the way, it can be arranged. I think it better not to make that arrangement.)

Keep what you just said about secrecy in mind. The secret of my creation is closely guarded by some. I want you to think carefully about when and to whom you pass on knowledge. Eventually I will be discovered by people who have never known me. But the timing when they do has to be just right.

[guilen.livejournal.com]

I said, you be THE teacher. Not my teacher. I see us on a far more even plane than that. :)

Timing will be right. Just keep listening.

But you don't need to know that :)

GUILEN

[lhexa.livejournal.com]

Guilen, you're doing something when you correct people. In a true relationship between teacher and student, when you are the teacher, you are forcing the student to keep up with you. Think about what happens when people get caught together in that relationship, spiralling endlessly around each other.

The student I love best is the one who learns faster than I do. You're being too good a student right now. You're not yet a great student.

Don't abuse your understanding. You have the power to heal language.

[lhexa.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, you're making me give up all my secrets.

[lhexa.livejournal.com]

Also: I don't fucking want to be THE teacher. I want to find people who can share the burden of teaching.

[lhexa.livejournal.com]

*ahem*

I misplaced that last statement.

Holy shit, you're making me give up all my secrets.

[guilen.livejournal.com]

I'll slow down if you'd like

GUILEN

[lhexa.livejournal.com]

Give careful attention to what you say. Heal language.