"The unexpected always happens."

Hark! The unexpected again! I am called; the patient has once more escaped.

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear: I think strange things

"I am glad that it is old and big. I myself am of an old family, and to live in a new house would kill me. A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century. I rejoice also that there is a chapel of old times. We Transylvanian nobles love not to think that our bones may be amongst the commonest dead. I seek not gaiety nor mirth, not the bright voluptuousness of much sunshine and sparkling waters which please the young and gay. I am no longer young; and my heart, though weary years of mourning over the dead, is not attuned to mirth. Moreover, the walls of my castle are broken; the shadows m any, and the wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements. I love the shade and shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I may."
Somehow his words and his look did not seem to accord, or else it was that his cast of face made his smile look malignant, and saturnine.

Bram Stoker - Dracula

games

EMILIA
Yet we have some revenge. Let husbands know,
Their wives have sense like them; they see, and smell,
And have their palates both for sweet and sour
As husbands have. What is it that they do,
When they change us for others? Is it sport?
I think it is. And doth affection breed it?
I think it doth. Is't frailty that thus errs?
It is so too. And have not we affections,
Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
Then let them use us well: else let them know,
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.

Othello, 4.3

'the rage to master'

"but, why does no one ever want to play?"
*scuff's foot in sand, hands in pockets, pouts*

Q: what are you doing?

∞: plotting

Q: what is your plot about?

∞: scheming

Q: are you quite sure this is not all another elaborate ploy to date james franco?

∞: not entirely.

Q: the possibilities really are quite endless, aren't they?

regroup

operation slowest striptease in the world: round two

step one: flaunt your assets

step two: state your terms, in that voice

step three: samples too appealing to refuse, just enough

step four: lay down your demands

step five: leave 'em to take care of business, quickly and salivating

step six: wait, restrain, control

step seven: what you want, in your hands