Beauty and ideas and the idea of beauty and the beauty of ideas...

[elisi]

"Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"
"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober. Which accounts for my talking so much."

Many thanks to owlsie for pointing this one out. I think I'm in love. And also laughing helplessly...

(Quote above from 'Gaudy Night'.)

Comments

[gillo]

I miss Fry and Laurie as a team. I miss Funny Hugh. I love that clip - I Facebooked it to my daughter who is currently writing an essay on the Idea of Beauty!

[elisi]

I miss Fry and Laurie as a team. I miss Funny Hugh.
Me too. Surely House must be cancelled soon?

I love that clip - I Facebooked it to my daughter who is currently writing an essay on the Idea of Beauty!
Excellent! What he says is actually perfectly sound. It's just things like 'lovelet' that make it... well. ;)

[gillo]

That's Stephen Fry sending up Stephen Fry, of course. He uses the most outrageous vocabulary when he has a mind to it. Bless.

[elisi]

That man is a veritable cornucopia of delight. ;)

[owlboy]

Beauty is beauty and beauty, beauty

here, have s'more Stephen Fry WORDS:

[elisi]

Words, words, words... I shall never be sober again!

[promethia_tenk]

I feel ravished in my soul. I want to stride forth shouting that like Whitman through the streets of Manhattan.

And then lunch.

Also, I couldn't look away. I think I'm going to be seeing swooping words in my visual field all day.

[owlboy]

Do they ever yoke impossible words together for the pure sound-sex of it?!

(sigh)

[mangosorbet007.livejournal.com]

This makes me soooo happy I will never have to attend a graduate seminar on literary theory *ever* *again*. :-)

[elisi]

LOL!

(But don't you think language is the complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square of life?)

[lilachigh.livejournal.com]

Was forced to watch all the other clips as well. I love the Australian one!

[elisi]

That is the danger beauty of youtube! :)

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

Fry and Laurie are the precious gift of the British civilization to me personally.

[elisi]

British civilisation is much obliged. :)

[lynnenne]

Heeeeeeee. I think Spike needs to call Angel "lovelet" in the next fic I write. :D

[elisi]

Yes. Yes he does.

[1-mad-squirrel.livejournal.com]

I love them both, and as a scene of acting it's wonderful, but it scares me a little.

[elisi]

Stephen Fry with no brakes or filter... Hm. Yes, pretty scary!

[1-mad-squirrel.livejournal.com]

Not precisely what I meant. Yes, no breaks no filter and the nature of the conversation. And the fact that I live in Arizona.

[elisi]

Oh I see. I'm trying very hard to block all that out... :(