Shhhhh!

[cleolinda]

I really, really like the idea of being in secret societies. Even if they're just pretend secret societies. In fact, they're more fun if everyone knows about them. I mean, what's the fun of being in the Masons or the Illuminati or the Black Hand or the Seven Blessings or the Golden Dawn if you can't, say, discreetly flaunt your ring or your pin or your iron-on patch or whatever? Which is why I'm really, really looking forward to getting my Sigma Tau Delta insignia, even though it isn't secret and I'll probably never even go to a meeting, because the idea of wearing a pin that proclaims I am part of something called "STD" is just the height of hilarity to me. But then, I think I'm enjoying that on a completely different level.

It's like having a secret clubhouse, isn't it? In fact, I would love to create some kind of society so secret that even I don't know what it's about. Seriously, it would be the most secret society ever. The Illuminated Hand of the Blessed Dawn: The Secret Society of Secret Secretness. It would be so awesome. The entire society would be devoted to figuring out what the hell we joined up for. All we would know is that we have really, really kickass handshakes and insignia and and passwords and shit. We would chalk secret symbols on brick walls and inside university stairwells. You could torture us to the death, but you'd never find out our secrets... mostly because we wouldn't know them ourselves. Hee.

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[edda.livejournal.com]

Actually, you can't use "The Illuminated Hand of the Blessed Dawn". Someone else is already using that in conjunction with the Rosimason Hermetics and it's NOT true about the whole Kennedy--

OK, I've already said too much. Just...that half-twist handshake? Don't ever, ever do it near Memphis. Not within city limits. They'll think you're--

Never mind, OK? Forget I said anything. *walks away rapidly, hunching into trechcoat*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heeee. Now that's what I'm talking about.

(We used to have a joke in elementary school--we'd go around saying "The electric pickle barks at midnight," very mysteriously, just to freak people out.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heeee, the Rosimason Hermetics.

You know, I think I'm actually going to use the Illuminated Hand in my children's story now... I need a villain, you know. :)

Didn't you say in the comment before this that you were having trouble writing? I have a couple of tricks you might want to try...

[edda.livejournal.com]

Yes, although I just rather unexpectedly spit out a poem. They get hacked up like fishbones abut every six months or so. I make no claims on their general readability, but I usually don't feel too utterly horrified by them later.

Tricks? Yes? Anything at all is welcome; feel free.

[edda.livejournal.com]

"trechcoat"

"abut"

I swear to God I CAN spell, I just can't type for shit.