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[xp_cypher]

So. I have come to a very important conclusion.

(not really. I'm just bored out of my skull, but bear with me.)

So, I have decided that Robert Ludlum books are like the male version of bodice-ripper romance novels. You have your Intrepid Hero, a man somehow disillusioned by the system or what have you. You have the plucky female lead, who somehow gets thrown together with the hero. And then, rather than falling in love over the single father's little kid, or the ranch, or whatever plot device, they fall in love while foiling a vast international conspiracy either involving Nazis, global finance, or something similar.

Complete with two pages of purple-prose sex scenes somewhere about halfway to two-thirds of the way through the book.

Did I mention that I'm bored?

Comments

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Are you reading a lot of bodice-ripper romance novels to compare?

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

There is no way that I could answer that question that isn't going to result in mockery, is there.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Correct!

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

...I seem to have defeated myself.

This is why I should not post when I'm bored.

[x-viento.livejournal.com]

Who is Robert Ludlum and why would he choose to print parts of his text in purple?

Or is this another one of those English language things that I hate so very much?

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_prose

[x-blink.livejournal.com]

you know dude, you're old enough to get REAL porn.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

I'm well aware of that fact.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

You should see what he left on the server, seriously.

Well, not really.

Because it's still encrypted like a Swiss Bank.

Share the good stuff, Ramsey!

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Yes, because you knowing what sort of stuff I watch would be in NO WAY emasculating.

[x-dominion.livejournal.com]

If he's got decent taste, we could try to subpoena it. I know a judge with gambling debts and a taste for decent booze.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

He used to date Marie-Ange. Take that as you will.

[x-dominion.livejournal.com]

So, what... all redheads and subtitles then?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Something like that. Can't fault him, though. As redheaded French precognitives go, she's easily in the top five.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Do you know four other redheaded French precognitives?

Do you even know one?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

One has to allow for other possibilities, you know. You wouldn't make a scientific conclusion based on only one set of data, would you?

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

You're extrapolating based on possibilities. How can you possibly derive a meaningful conclusion from a possibility?

She's the only redheaded French precognitive you know, therefore she is by default the most attractive.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Well, that is true, for value 1 of set {1}. However, there is a distinct non-zero probability of there being others in that set, of which I would make an assumption (yes, nonscientific of me, I know) that given any number of entries in the set, that for matters of beauty, Marie-Ange would be in the top five.

I'm saying she's hot even compared to a theoretical unknown quantity, dude.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Seems pretty backhanded to me, but whatever.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Well, I find looking at things analytically to be a bit more dignified and composed than jumping up and down on a sofa hooting about the attractiveness of the women we find ourselves in the company of.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Tom Cruise is an insane person.

I've never jumped up and down on a couch.