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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote2004-02-13 04:59 pm
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QOTD

"As always, there are only two proper ways to celebrate tomorrow. If you're someone who, like me, is concerned with historicity, put on a loincloth, kill a goat, and whack the person you have a crush on with it. However, if you're someone who is more staid and traditional, then certainly the only gift that could ever possibly express the depths of your feelings would be a bishop with a crippled or epileptic child at his feet. That's the kind of thing that makes my heart go all a-flutter."—[livejournal.com profile] ladysisyphus

(She notes, however, that if you want nothing to do with the best-known associations of 14 February, your other choices include the paired Saints Cyril and Methodius, creators of the Cyrillic alphabet. Or you can stay home and read a good book, on the grounds that a much-promoted holiday falling on a Saturday is going to be more hassle than it could possibly be worth.)