(no subject)

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

Who: Orion
Where: Orion dorms!
When: Day 114, around noon.
What: Catching up on team stuff.

Comments

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

It requires much practice and precise measurements of pressure.

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, but the only reason why I can even attempt it is 'cause my materia learned it.

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

Which would likely explain your difficulty.

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

... it does?

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

It is not a natural skill.

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

Well, no. But the materia doesn't seem to do skills half-way.

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

[pauses from the neuropressure, though keeping his hands on Kirk's shoulder]

... I can be somewhat compared to the contrast between a person knowing how to play a musical instrument as opposed to an artist playing a song. The mechanics of playing an instrument may be broken down into notes, chords, techniques, and similar factors, but there may be some indefinable quality that only allows an artist to truly bring out music.

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

[leans his head back a little, looking up at him]

So touching is ... music.

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

For this comparison, yes.

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

It's still surprisingly poetic. Especially coming from you.

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

[eyequirk]

Vulcan does not lack poets or writers.

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, but are you a poet?

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

I have read many works by both Human and Vulcan poets, as well as other species' works.

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

Like who?

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

Human authors such as Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Lao Tzu, Emily Dickinson, Robert Burns, and many others. T'Pel, V'las, Kuvak, and Bokem to name a select few from Vulcan.

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

[blinks]

Wait ... I know some of those.

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

... Of the Vulcan writers?

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

No, the human ones. I mean, I've vaguely heard of the Vulcan ones, but I don't think we read 'em in high school.

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

Which ones do you know of?

[goes back to Kirk's pressure points, continuing with his shoulders and neck]

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

Bokem wrote epics, right? I remember doing a paper about him and Homer.

[relaaaxes into that]

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

[tilts his head, raising both eyebrows a bit]

An interesting comparison ...

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

Well, it wasn't anything brilliant. I was like fourteen and definitely not caring much about ancient dead writers.

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

... Forgive me, but I do not understand how your age at the time is a factor.

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

Fourteen-year-old Standard literature papers are never particularly deep. Or interesting.

Re: [Evening, presumably after dinner]

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

I see ...

Which Human authors did you recognize?