if you can dream — and not make dreams your master

[theladyrose]

Though not to say that I'm an ascetic by any means, I'd like to think that I have relatively few vices, without even an addiction to caffeine.

I must confess though, that I am beginning to wonder if someone has finally found a way of slipping crack into the written word. Lately I find myself reading as if there is no tomorrow late into the night, as if consuming others' narratives will quell a deep-rooted hunger for a greater understanding of the universe or maybe just (!) humans and how we relate to each other the way we do. Perhaps it is a tactic to avoid the pitfalls of actual experience, but I find myself too caught up in this thrall to care at the moment.

Genius points to anyone knows to whom the title of this entry refers.

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Your "master" title

[(Anonymous)]

Hello, TheLadyRose,

I've been enjoying your journal, and Retroactivity, which I found via various MfU sites. Keep up the good work!

The line is from a Rudyard Kipling poem called "If," which also has the famous line, "If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs --"

(And yes, I recognized it without Googling, and only hit the search engine to double-check.)

-- The user known as "Benzadmiral"

Re: Your "master" title

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much, benzadmiral, and genius points to you for recognizing the poem :) It's always great to meet another MfU fan - I actually have to thank the MfU fandom for inspiring me to read more Kipling as I had the dubious distinction of being stuck with all of the modern and postmodern literature classes in school. Nice to hear from you!