mnementomori: (she ca⒩⒩⒪t keep her place.)
xισи ✺№ ⒤ ([personal profile] mnementomori) wrote in [community profile] queenofheartsrp2011-05-13 10:03 pm

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[careful writing appears on the Vine, slowly, a pause after each line. The writer is copying it down from a book, after all.]


If recollecting were forgetting,
Then I remember not.
And if forgetting, recollecting,
How near I had forgot.
And if to miss, were merry,
And to mourn, were gay,
How very blithe the fingers
That gathered this, Today!


[with that, the handwriting grows more confident and natural again, continuing further down the page.]


I found this in a book in the library...and a lot of other things like it. Is it some kind of puzzle? What does it mean?

voice

[identity profile] sheroic.livejournal.com 2011-05-14 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm the USA, and she was American! She's really good, huh?
Edited 2011-05-14 22:54 (UTC)

voice

[identity profile] sheroic.livejournal.com 2011-05-15 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
The United States of America, duh! You haven't heard of me? [ So disappointing. ]

voice

[identity profile] sheroic.livejournal.com 2011-05-17 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
... Oh, so you're another alien.

Well, at least you're exposing yourself to some of my stuff! You should read more of Emily's works.

voice

[identity profile] sheroic.livejournal.com 2011-05-18 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah! Let's see if I can remember... She's got a popular one like, um...

I'm nobody... who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Then there's a pair of... Oh, I can't remember! But you get the picture.