Oh these Victorians crack me up!!!

Some excerpts from the novel I am currently reading for class.

"'Why, Kate, my dear Kate! what, could you love any man but me? Could you be so cruel?--could you? There, let me get off my horse, and lie down on this stubble, and you ride over me, and trample me to death. I would rather have you trample on my ribs, than on my heart with loving any one but me.'"

"The bullet had passed through Neville's hat, and had actually cut a lane through his magnificent hair." Shades of Angel, anyone? *g*

"But her face was ashy, and her lips the color of lead; and she was so like death, they could not help being terribly alarmed; and now, for the first time, the duellists felt culprits; and, as for fighting, every idea of such a thing went out of their heads; the rivals now were but rival nurses; and never did a lot of women make more fuss over a child, than all these bloodthirsty men did over this Amazon manquée. They produced their legendary lore; one's grandmother had told him burnt feathers were the thing; another, from an equally venerable source, had gathered that those pink palms must be profanely slapped by the horny hand of a man; for at no less a price could resuscitation be obtained." Yes, yes that's it. Slap her with your horny hands lads. That'll bring her round for sure. LOL

Curiosity killed the grad student

I know, I know. I should be posting more “Shadowlands”
(kitty_poker1’s got the next chappie right now) or working on nashmaveric’s Cole Porter ficathon piece. *clasps hands behind back and whistles the theme song to “Andy Griffith” while gazing upwards at a harvest moon*

But I’ve got another question, one that I’ve had simmering on the back burner for a while now but that was set to boil by imaginaryimages in this comment to my last post: For me slash sex scenes always seem very claiming, about ownership, etc. Of course, that could simply be because it IS a vampire verse!


I’m interested in the origins of
1. Claiming
2. Sire/Childe relationship

( Where does this come from? )