From: dks@sr.com (Dave K. Sprow)
Subject: Re: Just ideas: what are *your* romantic things?
Reply-To: dks@srhqla.UUCP (Dave K. Sprow)
Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 21:49:39 GMT

In article <PRAUDA.92Sep29155251@dol-guldur.hut.fi> prauda@dol-guldur.hut.fi (Kristiina Prauda) writes:
>
>Hello everyone!
>
>It's been rather quiet here lately - everyone seems to be busy with
>studies, and of course we've been listening breathlessly about the
>ARCwedding of the century (I still claim it deserves that title, 
>even without seeing it! which reminds me: Mr and Mrs Salter, don't
>you dare forget to send me pictures!!! :-)).
>
>Well, that became a rather complex sentence... (so I'm just showing
>the normal intelligibility of an ARCer... :-)) But anyway, sitting
>here next to the RFA fireplace, resting from my dance and drying
>off the perspiration... (teasing? me? naaah... :-)) Anyway, sitting
>here and staring dreamily into the fire, having listened to the
>wonderful recounting of the wedding (thank you for sharing that
>with us, Julie and Steve!!!) I thought we could share some thoughts.
>That *is* what we're here for, among other things...
>
>So, the question is: 
>* What are _your_ most romantic things???
>
>They can be anything - music, play, book, place, time, anything. They
>are the things that make you feel like laughing, crying, reaching for
>something unnameable behind this world that you can't quite reach...
>They are the things that make you believe in love, life, eternity...
>They are the things that give you strength and hope to live on, from
>day to day, and make life magical...
>
>Here are some of mine, just for starters: 
>
>* Tchaikovsky's ballet music, especially the Love Adagio from the 
>second act of the Nutcracker. That music is the perfect image of
>undying love - it's like looking straight into the sun with eyes
>that are strong enough to stand it. 
>
>* Les Miserables, the most romantic musical of all time. 
>
>* The Lord of the Rings, especially one single scene: where the 
>Riders or Rohan ride through the enemy to avenge the death of Theoden
>and the (supposed) death of Eowyn; Eomer sees the pirate ships coming
>up the river and raises his swords to defy them... and then when he
>sees it's Aragorn and his men coming, throws his sword into the air
>and bursts into song when he catches it... And the tide of the
>battle turns... <sigh> <snif> (Sorry, got carried away there. :-))
>
>* The white night of the Finnish Midsummer: the deep, deep emerald
>greenness of trees and grass, the milky air, like soft clear glass, 
>the mist rising from the mirror of the lake, the pure golden bell of 
>the cuckoo from the faraway woods behind the lake... there is nothing, 
>asbolutely nothing like that. 
>
>* Christmas. Everything in it. The snow, the golden and green and 
>red, the light of the candles...
>
>
>...Now that suddenly made me remember... I feel as if I've asked
>something like this before? But who cares, it's a subject I like
>to discuss again and again. :-)
>
>So, tell me about your most romantic things!
>
>
>Kristiina
>Official FireDancer of the RFA
>prauda@dol-guldur.hut.fi

I think I'm in love.  :-)

David S.


Organization: Masters student, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA