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The Arranged-marriage Meme
(Just for the record: I'm opposed to bartering brides [& husbands], but just for the sake of this thought-experiment: this is for introducing your true self to a stranger, where you actually care if they know and apreiciate your deep self -- not the just the shiny surface you show the general public)
Your family has set up an arranged marriage for you.* Your new spouse will be arriving by airplane in a couple months. For the sake of propriety, torrid love letters and long-distance phone calls are out, but you're allowed to ship a package to introduce yourself, and the kind of person you are, including:
What do ship off?
In my jiffy box would be:
*Yes, my mind does turn to dark, dystopian places when I'm cut off from friends...
[eta: If I had the tools, and the skills to use them, I would so make a Doctor Who vid with Swimming to the Other Side as the music track. Really. Can I make that a challenge for vid makers out there? I'll send you some homemade, customized to your taste, hot cocoa mix as payment....
eta2: Pat Humphries wrote that song while living in the Hudson Valley, around where I did most of my growing up; sometimes, I think there really is something in the air up there]
(Just for the record: I'm opposed to bartering brides [& husbands], but just for the sake of this thought-experiment: this is for introducing your true self to a stranger, where you actually care if they know and apreiciate your deep self -- not the just the shiny surface you show the general public)
Your family has set up an arranged marriage for you.* Your new spouse will be arriving by airplane in a couple months. For the sake of propriety, torrid love letters and long-distance phone calls are out, but you're allowed to ship a package to introduce yourself, and the kind of person you are, including:
- One book of non-fiction
- One book of fiction
- One song
- One TV show (sample on tape or dvd)
- One movie
What do ship off?
In my jiffy box would be:
- The Wisdom of the Mythtellers by Sean Kane
- Sister Water by Nancy Willard
- Swimming to the Other Side by Pat Humphries
- Max Headroom (I bet you thought I'd say Doctor Who... if I could include two examples, I'd pack in ... hmmm... Snakedance, I think.)
- Spirited Away
*Yes, my mind does turn to dark, dystopian places when I'm cut off from friends...
[eta: If I had the tools, and the skills to use them, I would so make a Doctor Who vid with Swimming to the Other Side as the music track. Really. Can I make that a challenge for vid makers out there? I'll send you some homemade, customized to your taste, hot cocoa mix as payment....
eta2: Pat Humphries wrote that song while living in the Hudson Valley, around where I did most of my growing up; sometimes, I think there really is something in the air up there]
