FIC! entry 15
Jul. 28th, 2007 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
letterbladeMay 17th, 1957
Gellert--
I'm afraid he's a little out of the infantile Dark Lord stage. We may be into skulking and temperamental early adolescence, a phase of Dark development I know well from my time with you. Unfortunately he has no friend to spend that troubled time with, and I have stretched this metaphor to the snapping point.
As for the choice you mention--it weighs on me heavily, yes. My Pensieve has been invaluable. And--at times my heart proves difficult to untangle as well.
One can think almost endlessly on that question, that of Muggles. Though they've answered some of your wonders themselves--the further you look into Muggle artistic criticism, the more you realize that there are valid criteria for judging creative output beyond its practical-magical usefulness. I'm attaching a text that's been particularly helpful with that. One thing I've found particularly difficult to realize, as a wizard, that to a Muggle a life of the mind does, in fact, entail losing any ability to affect reality directly. Yet, for that, it is often surprising how many of them choose such a life, and those who don't, who choose professions of battle and labor where they can change physical reality through their own natural means, are generally considered to be a second class. I'd heard it proposed that they're unconsciously mimicking wizarding society. I think perhaps the cause and effect there is off.
But, I beg your pardon, I ramble. This topic has been my pet hobby as of late. And, as you've pointed out, I have a Dark Lord to attend to.
Albus Dumbledore
HALFWAY MAAAAAAAAAARK!
Hopefully Mark will go all the way with me soon.
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Gellert--
I'm afraid he's a little out of the infantile Dark Lord stage. We may be into skulking and temperamental early adolescence, a phase of Dark development I know well from my time with you. Unfortunately he has no friend to spend that troubled time with, and I have stretched this metaphor to the snapping point.
As for the choice you mention--it weighs on me heavily, yes. My Pensieve has been invaluable. And--at times my heart proves difficult to untangle as well.
One can think almost endlessly on that question, that of Muggles. Though they've answered some of your wonders themselves--the further you look into Muggle artistic criticism, the more you realize that there are valid criteria for judging creative output beyond its practical-magical usefulness. I'm attaching a text that's been particularly helpful with that. One thing I've found particularly difficult to realize, as a wizard, that to a Muggle a life of the mind does, in fact, entail losing any ability to affect reality directly. Yet, for that, it is often surprising how many of them choose such a life, and those who don't, who choose professions of battle and labor where they can change physical reality through their own natural means, are generally considered to be a second class. I'd heard it proposed that they're unconsciously mimicking wizarding society. I think perhaps the cause and effect there is off.
But, I beg your pardon, I ramble. This topic has been my pet hobby as of late. And, as you've pointed out, I have a Dark Lord to attend to.
Albus Dumbledore
HALFWAY MAAAAAAAAAARK!
Hopefully Mark will go all the way with me soon.
[entry in the Grindeldore for Goats Blogathon Venture; sponsor me here!]
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Date: Jul. 29th, 2007 01:21 am (UTC)Loving it all - their arguments, their memories, Gellert's snarking, Albus's tortuous brain.
More, more! *sends happy writing-vibes*
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Date: Jul. 29th, 2007 02:32 am (UTC)LOL.
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Date: Jul. 29th, 2007 12:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Jul. 29th, 2007 12:16 pm (UTC)This may be belated, but I'm pretty sure I received those writing-vibes. :D It's been a good night!
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Date: Nov. 21st, 2010 06:35 am (UTC)