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I like autumn... the change between brilliantly sunny days and melancholy and mysterious foggy ones; those days when almost suddenly the leaves turn and trees are blazing with colour: brief moments of fragile, fleeting beauty, easily destroyed by any stronger gust of wind...

I like seasons of change, perhaps because so little changes in my life, but spring is too high-key, too full of tensions and expectations for my taste. Autumn has a sense of fulfillment, of closure; and then, nature slowly stripped down to its essentials, there's beauty in that, too.

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... and affection it is that brings me here, no doubt. Even a frigid, self-sufficing man needs something of this interchange if he is not to die in his unmechanical part: natural philosophy, music, dead men's conversation, is not enough.

(Stephen, in PC)

To say I don't like Stephen as a character would not be true at all, but I recognise too much of myself in him to be in any danger of romanticising him. The reserve, the cold, observant, academic view of life, unless something truly goes against his principles, the awareness of some darkness threatening within; the need for privacy, the dislike to feel himself indebted to anyone... even the tendency to be (*cough*) something less than orderly. Falling - hard - for someone he knows is going to hurt him. Perhaps this is why I, like he, was so instantly drawn to Jack's much more candid, impetuously enthusiastic character...


# Chinese zodiac, gacked from czaria... It doesn't match a hundred percent, and I'm not sure how much probability there can be in assigning a bunch of characteristics to people born within a whole year, but I'm much closer to the Rat than to what the typical Gemini is supposed to be. A streak of the artistic perhaps, but little else fits.

# 50bookchallenge update here