In Love, Portions Are Never Stingy

[disbelief11]

Two hours of sleep is simply not enough. But before I crawl back into bed, I wanted to share this little tidbit with you.



From Cherry, by Mary Karr:

And you snap out of it. Or are snapped out of it. Never again will you lay a hand against yourself, not so long as there are plums to eat and somebody - anybody - who gives enough of a damn to haul them to you. So long as you bear the least nibblet of love for any other creature in this dark world, though in love portions are never stingy. There are no smidgens or pinches, only rolling abundance. That's how you acquire the resolution for survival that the coming years are about to demand. You don't earn it. It's given.

And in other news, this freaks me out a bit. Maybe Anna Nicole should look into this. Then she could wear her late husband instead of displaying his ashes on top of her television. Forget "Till Death Do Us Part" Hmm, sounds like an insurance nightmare...can you imagine if your LifeGem was stolen? "Crap, the thieves stole grandma!"

Comments

That's just plain gross...

[alejandradd.livejournal.com]

Can't somebody just wear an actual jewel that belonged to the dead person instead?

...also, I can give you a $1 rhinestone, charge you $7000 for it and tell you it was made for Napoleon's butt. You may believe me. I really don't know how serious that place is.

Oooops!

[alejandradd.livejournal.com]

Errrr... I meant FROM Napoleon's butt. Sorry, I just over-grossed myself!

[tresca.livejournal.com]

Wow, them's some scary shite. Imagine if Nell had gotten her hands on that kind of thing. Lana would actually be wearing her dead parents instead of just the meteor that smushed them which perhaps contains bits of them..

[edie22.livejournal.com]

You know, maybe *that* is her meteor mutation. The meteor that squished her parents makes her talk about them constantly?

dont mind me. Just the oddness sets in when I get so much sleep.

[disbelief11.livejournal.com]

So Lana's really the one behind this whole scheme? She convinced Lex to finance the research with Dr. Hamilton to create these LifeGems?

Wow, wonder how she's planning on delivering Clark to Lex's boudoir in return...

Re:

[tresca.livejournal.com]

She'll just tell Clark that, um, there might be a mutant there for him to throw 30 feet? Clark will superspeed right over!

[anathema666.livejournal.com]

Instead of a diamond, I want something useful, like a toaster or a coverlet, so I can say things like this:

"OK! Who left crumbs in Great Aunt Mabel again?"

"How many times have I told you not to leave Cousin Steve on the floor like that?"

"Toilet's overflowing! Where did you put Grandpa?!?!"


Well, I hope I get to say these touching words to someone. *sigh* I may never even HAVE kids. Y'know, unless I forget to put in my diaphragm made from the ashes of Pope John Paul I.

BWAH!

[disbelief11.livejournal.com]

This, Ana? Is why I love you.

Re: BWAH!

[anathema666.livejournal.com]

Right back atcha, sweets.