I'm just an annotation girl...

Because I haven't come out of lurkerdom for some time to point out some small literary reference:
You go for the both of us please? I doubt I could put up with the twinkling right now. Or the tea.

"I'm a poor man, your Majesty," the Hatter began, in a trembling voice, "and I hadn't begun me tea---not above a week or so--and what with the bread-and-butter getting so thin--and the twinkling of the tea--"

neveth @ June 29 2003, 11:26:12 UTC

10 points to your house for quoting Alice.

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hunin_munin @ June 29 2003, 15:33:10 UTC

10 points for getting the quotation correct.

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delirieuse @ June 30 2003, 03:43:24 UTC

*grins* I can see that someone with your username would be fastidious with correct quotes.

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delirieuse @ June 30 2003, 03:49:49 UTC

What is the correct etiquette in these situations, one wonders...
It is probably Not Cool to punch the air and scream "YES!", so should one merely lean against a wall and look smug?

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neveth @ June 30 2003, 12:33:03 UTC

Well, if you were a Weasley, screaming 'YES!' would be appropriate.

If you were a Malfoy however, looking smug would carry the day.

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delirieuse @ July 1 2003, 02:52:53 UTC

True to my Slytherin nature, then, I'll just lean over here and sneer.

*sneers*

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neveth @ June 30 2003, 12:38:27 UTC

Also, 20 points for using Delirum in your mood field.

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delirieuse @ July 1 2003, 02:49:21 UTC

Wh00t! Sandmannishness!

I can't wait until Endless Nights. That's coming out... when, September?

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neveth @ July 1 2003, 20:25:20 UTC

And At Death's door is coming out in August, methinks. But Endless Nights is September. AUGH the waiting.

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delirieuse @ July 2 2003, 03:10:04 UTC

*Cannot cope. Off to Mordor.*

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hepcatpixie @ June 29 2003, 17:06:01 UTC

Interesting that you even made the connection. Even if i had read Alice in Wonderland I probably would have missed it.

hmm, twinkling tea... that sounds really pretty.

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delirieuse @ June 30 2003, 03:39:59 UTC

Oh, I'm good at making connexions between strange and seemingly disconnected things. :)

I opened my copy of The Annotated Alice for the correct quote, and apparently it's not the tea that's twinkling, but the tea tray (as per previous chapter):

Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly
Like a tea-tray in the sky.

...The Hatter's been cut off by the King.

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