compounded musing: on love and enemies
Oct. 4th, 2009 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonJust sitting here nodding along to writer Mur Lafferty's musings on enemies, in life and on the page. She's right - true enmity can only come out of love. Genuinely felt antagonism can only come out of deep admiration, after all - why be envious of someone you don't care about?
Do I have any enemies? I don't think so, not really. Plenty of people on and off the strip that I'm happy for when they do well. I have to admit that I do sometimes wonder "when's my turn?" in different endeavors, but ultimately that's more about me and circumstance than it has to do with people around me.
I take it as a good thing that I'm not eaten up with burning jealousy. Warm jealousy, sometimes, but no consuming hatreds.
But Mur/J.R. Blackwell are right, it makes for far more interesting reading than one-dimensional baddies.
Tangential afterthought - I find it amusing that "arching" (v. the act of being an archvillain) and "henching" (v. the act of being a henchman/henchperson) are verbs now. I blame/credit Venture Brothers :P
Do I have any enemies? I don't think so, not really. Plenty of people on and off the strip that I'm happy for when they do well. I have to admit that I do sometimes wonder "when's my turn?" in different endeavors, but ultimately that's more about me and circumstance than it has to do with people around me.
I take it as a good thing that I'm not eaten up with burning jealousy. Warm jealousy, sometimes, but no consuming hatreds.
But Mur/J.R. Blackwell are right, it makes for far more interesting reading than one-dimensional baddies.
Tangential afterthought - I find it amusing that "arching" (v. the act of being an archvillain) and "henching" (v. the act of being a henchman/henchperson) are verbs now. I blame/credit Venture Brothers :P
