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Who talks in riddles, who talks in reasons?

What kind of endings do you believe in?

Created on 2003-01-09 12:31:54 (#847210), last updated 2009-11-03

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Name:optimystic
Location:London, United Kingdom
Website:Earth : Sky : Art

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I live about six different lives. That's at least three careers, two boyfriends, and never enough time to spend with all the brilliant energetic, positive people I'm lucky enough to be friends with.

If that bit of fluff hasn't put you off yet, try this: I'm affectionate, impatient, and I get bored easily. I have a constant compulsion to be busy, even when it would be better for me to chill out for a bit. I value pragmatism, adaptability, independence, and fearlessness when it comes to love. I used to think intelligence was the greatest virtue there is, but these days I place wisdom higher.

I occasionally play dress-up and pretend to be a goth, a fetishist, or a glamorous Londoner but I'm basically a filthy loved-up hippy at heart.


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Libellus is the Latin diminuitive of liber, "little book". It meant both "notebook", and a self-publicised chapbook. Poets would get these bound privately and stand on street corners reciting from them in the hope of selling some on the spot, or getting noticed and patronised. Doubly appropriate for a livejournal name, with the advantage of being a geeky Classicist pun. The -um ending has two somewhat nebulous reasons behind it: it's the accusative, being the name of my journal, not me, and therefore the object rather than the subject. It's also a gender-neutral ending, which appealed to me (libelle, the vocative, would also have worked, but libellus felt too masculine). In that sense it's not grammatically correct, since you can't change the gender of nouns, but it achieves the intended effect.

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You can have a look at my paintings for sale at waxandwane.etsy.com.

This is some of the music I like; if you're on last.fm feel free to add me there.

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a.s. byatt, absent-minded paintbrush-chewing, accidental telepathy, alan rickman's voice, always wanting to know, ancient greek, andalucia, androgyny, artistic temperaments, bardcamp, bdsm, being bohemian, being cooked for, being half in love, bisexuality, blogging, blues jams, bookishness, channelling the awen, city skylines, clubbing, cooking, corsetry, critical thinking, cross-dressing, curling up on windowsills, dana, discovering new universes, drawing, druidry, eccentricity, endless cups of tea, english countryside, european epic cycles, experimenting on myself, fearless creativity, feminism, festivals, fetish heels, filthy hippies, fluffy ninjas, folk music, freeform roleplaying, fucking about with photoshop, gender egalitarianism, good sex, graphic design, gustav klimt, having a classical education, hill country, incestuous non-genetic family, inspiration, intensity, intuitive magic, joy, kerewin, kink activism, la maupin, larp, late night intimate conversations, latin, liberation theology, live music, looking after my beloveds, lucent skies, magical ritual, marc chagall, men, men in poloneck jumpers, military uniforms on girls, minoan linear b, monty python, music festivals, mythology and fairytales, new crushes, old dictionaries, paganism, painting, panentheism, passionate musicianship, people-watching, pettins, playing the piano, playing the safaxamaphonificator, polyamory, positivity, pragmatic witchcraft, pub folk sessions, quality of experience, quiet companionship, raving, reading on public transport, readthroughs, real ale, real turkish mint tea, ron hutton, rummaging in street markets, second-hand bookshops, self-discovery, self-indulgence, sexual deviance, shishas, sir alanna of trebond, sketching with 2b pencils, sky-watching, spontaneity, stonehenge, streams of consciousness, submission, summer in london, tailcoats, talent, the css float property, the foundry, the pembury tavern, the silhouettes of trees, the smell of oil-paint, thespianism, thinking in iambic pentameter, tolkien's fairytales, transience, tripping, trogdor, victoriana, walking by the sea, wanting to try everything, webdesign, well-made period dress, wheel of the year, windy days, women

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Schools:

Leicester Grammar School - Leicester, England - Leicestershire, United Kingdom (1995 - 2002)
University of Cambridge - Downing College - Cambridge, England - Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom (2002 - 2005)
University of Cambridge - Clare College - Cambridge, England - Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom (2005 - present)
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