Stella_Omega
No Gentleman
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It wasn't untill I pushed away from the library table, that I realised how badly my spine was hunched over- it hurt to straighten up. What the hell was I doing? I had less than three pages of my subgrad essay finished. My ass was as dead as a rock, from the hours I'd spent in this chair. To stretch this body out seemed like an impossibility. I'd become a wizened old fart- doddering among the stacks- years- decades- before my time, for crissake! Sex? What the hell was that? I thought I remembered- but my libido was as limp and listless as the sheets of uninspired exposition that I gathered up and shuffled into my battered old briefcase. I scooped up the laptop and left the books on the table. Let someone else put them away, I'd only come back tomorrow and pile them back up again.
My head was full of the sounds and rhythms of the fifteenth century. The men I was researching were magnificent creations of their own will, they roistered and brawled and wrote some of the filthiest literature that has ever been created to this day.
And they had style. Those heavy curled locks of hair might have carried fleas and worse vermin, but it looked good. The swaggering frock coats, the lace cuffs that could become tattered and filthy in a single busy afternoon... Wish we could wear that kind of thing now. For what? For another day in the dark stacks of the University library? I caught a glimpse of myself in the glass door leading out into the darkening street. That jerked me back to reality, all right.
I shook my head at my blue-jeaned, tee-shirted, sneakered reflection. Out into the street I went, and the wind blew my hair over my face for the millionth time. Who has time for a haircut, and who would care if I got one?
Actually, I mused as I stepped off the curb, my libido seemed to be stirring once more, even if only in a dry and literary way. The rakes of King Charles' court were seductive fellows. I could had taken any one of them on- although, my common sense reminded me I had better take a big box of Trojans along in that time machine, because in their day there was no such thing as Safe Sex. —In my life there's no sex at all, how much safer can it get—
So, there I was, John Markham, Librarian Of The Future, dragging my sorry ass back to my apartment on a gloomy evening.
My head was full of the sounds and rhythms of the fifteenth century. The men I was researching were magnificent creations of their own will, they roistered and brawled and wrote some of the filthiest literature that has ever been created to this day.
And they had style. Those heavy curled locks of hair might have carried fleas and worse vermin, but it looked good. The swaggering frock coats, the lace cuffs that could become tattered and filthy in a single busy afternoon... Wish we could wear that kind of thing now. For what? For another day in the dark stacks of the University library? I caught a glimpse of myself in the glass door leading out into the darkening street. That jerked me back to reality, all right.
I shook my head at my blue-jeaned, tee-shirted, sneakered reflection. Out into the street I went, and the wind blew my hair over my face for the millionth time. Who has time for a haircut, and who would care if I got one?
Actually, I mused as I stepped off the curb, my libido seemed to be stirring once more, even if only in a dry and literary way. The rakes of King Charles' court were seductive fellows. I could had taken any one of them on- although, my common sense reminded me I had better take a big box of Trojans along in that time machine, because in their day there was no such thing as Safe Sex. —In my life there's no sex at all, how much safer can it get—
So, there I was, John Markham, Librarian Of The Future, dragging my sorry ass back to my apartment on a gloomy evening.
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