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"What do you make so fair and bright?'
"I make the cloak of Sorrow:
O lovely to see in all men's sight
Shall be the cloak of Sorrow,
In all men's sight.'
"What do you build with sails for flight?'
"I build a boat for Sorrow:
O swift on the seas all day and night
Saileth the rover Sorrow,
All day and night.'
What do you weave with wool so white?'
"I weave the shoes of Sorrow:
Soundless shall be the footfall light
In all men's ears of Sorrow,
Sudden and light.'
I'm not entirely clear who's being threatened with the awful likelihood of having no comfort or solace during the Christmas holidays beyond a chat or two with me but yes, for the information of whoever, I'm likely to be approximately as computer-bound over the festive season as I am during the less festive parts of the year.
I"ve pretty much given up posting on either board, as I find it only brings out the worst and the most furious in me, and the Tinychat - where, to my astonishment, I find I actually get on with most people pretty well - fulfills all the needs that the board-posting fulfilled - or rather actually didn't fulfill - for me.
Matters are a LITTLE complicated, I'll admit, by the fact that RavRav is also 'in a bad place' at the moment and has taken to making regular appearances in the CH Tinychat - a development which (she being the elemental, Lilith-like force that she is) looks likely to alter the whole nature of the interaction there and bring about events which (doubtless to almost universal jubiliation) will render it impossible for me to ever show my face in the Crackyverse again.
We must await developments.