So the thing about researching complex problems is that it usually raises more questions than it answers. As some of you know, I’ve been trying to determine if Lilith loves bunnies for a while now (with no real success, I might add), and along the way I found myself wondering if Lilith was "fair". The following is a synopsis of three discrete experiments conducted over 27 hours – I would have presented them individually, but they’ve pretty much fused into a single memory for me. 
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I arrive at the laboratory (Supreme), and I find I’m very self conscious as I stand in the entrance with one hand full of deep fried pieces of chicken carcass and the other holding a frozen dairy product intermixed with mutilated cookies (it was, I was told, a requirement for returning). I wondered how strange I would look (ok, how additionally strange I would look) if one of the other lovely specimens were to greet me, and how they might react. Turns out, a lovely shorter-haired buxom blonde (whom I’d never met) came out of the staff room area… and she didn’t even break stride as she spun on her heels at the first glance of me, and shouted “Liiiiiiiiliiiiiithhhhh” down the corridor as she made her way back to safety from the drooly, twitchy rabbit.
Huh.
Ms. Lilith emerges from the hallway, relieves me of the offerings I had brought her, and drags me (fairly literally) to the testing environment, where I scrub and wait for her return. When she does, she gives me the most wonderful smile… she says it’s because she is pleased to see me, but I’m unconvinced. I suspect it is either because she enjoyed the treats; or that she is pleased with how quickly and completely she has trapped me with her charms. It doesn’t really matter… it feels “happy” now.
*thumpthumpthumpthumpthump*
And so, with nourishment and cleansing complete, we turn our attentions back to the question at hand… is Ms. Lilith fair?
As any of you who have seen her pictures (or, better yet, who have had the opportunity to see her in person) will know, she is indeed quite fair – a diminutive blonde beauty, very pleasing to the eyes. And to the touch.
She’s “saucy”, though (no, that’s not a double entendre… nor a comment about the chicken flesh), and she wastes no opportunity to have fun at my expense (again, no hidden meaning intended)… she even smiles and says that she’s running out of new things to do with (to?) me, knowing full well that I’ve come back to do the “old’ things again (and again… and, if I survive, perhaps even one more time). She is good natured with her torments, though, and while it is probably unfair of her to engage in a war of wits with an unarmed rabbit (technically, an "assault of wit"), I admit that it’s a great deal of fun, and one of the things I like most about her….
Which leads to one of the other things I like most about her. Man, can this lady “tickle”. Definitely very, very fair.
*thumpthumpthumpthumpthump*
And not only does she “tickle” the sweet dickens out of me, she is exceptionally convincing in all matters of make-believe (from making you believe she’s doing things she isn’t actually doing, to making you believe that she’s enjoying your attentions as much as you are enjoying hers). So convincing, in fact, that I find I have to pretty much ignore everything that all of my senses are telling me, just to keep my “perspective”. Yes… “perspective” includes “sanity”.
In the wake and aftermath, Ms. Lilith spends some tender moments with me, and THAT’S one of the things I like most about her…. But now she’s doing something very, very devious… in amongst the naughty suggestions, she gives glimpses into what makes this magnificent creature tick… and she tells half-stories with cliff hangers… and she quite methodically goes about building that irresistible intrigue that pretty much guarantees you’ll be back as soon as you possibly can just to get more (as if the thorough "tickling" wasn't enough?)… and then you find that it isn’t possible for bloody weeks! This is, of course, brilliant – but definitely not fair. Way unfair.
So, does Lilith love bunnies? I doubt I’ll ever really know (I’ve become too subjective), but she sure does provide a very reasonable hand-drawn facsimile with proof of purchase.
And is Lilith fair? Without any doubt. And absolutely not. I’m quite surprised at how both can be true at the same time.
Finally, does it matter? I’ll tell you after I see her again. I have to see her again. Because, once again, the research leads to more important unanswered questions… the next one being “Is Lilith Seraphim or Succubus?”.
Wish me luck, because I doubt that adding holy water to the crushed biscuits in frozen calf nourishment is going to save me….
Happy thumping, all!
*****
I arrive at the laboratory (Supreme), and I find I’m very self conscious as I stand in the entrance with one hand full of deep fried pieces of chicken carcass and the other holding a frozen dairy product intermixed with mutilated cookies (it was, I was told, a requirement for returning). I wondered how strange I would look (ok, how additionally strange I would look) if one of the other lovely specimens were to greet me, and how they might react. Turns out, a lovely shorter-haired buxom blonde (whom I’d never met) came out of the staff room area… and she didn’t even break stride as she spun on her heels at the first glance of me, and shouted “Liiiiiiiiliiiiiithhhhh” down the corridor as she made her way back to safety from the drooly, twitchy rabbit.
Huh.
Ms. Lilith emerges from the hallway, relieves me of the offerings I had brought her, and drags me (fairly literally) to the testing environment, where I scrub and wait for her return. When she does, she gives me the most wonderful smile… she says it’s because she is pleased to see me, but I’m unconvinced. I suspect it is either because she enjoyed the treats; or that she is pleased with how quickly and completely she has trapped me with her charms. It doesn’t really matter… it feels “happy” now.
*thumpthumpthumpthumpthump*
And so, with nourishment and cleansing complete, we turn our attentions back to the question at hand… is Ms. Lilith fair?
As any of you who have seen her pictures (or, better yet, who have had the opportunity to see her in person) will know, she is indeed quite fair – a diminutive blonde beauty, very pleasing to the eyes. And to the touch.
She’s “saucy”, though (no, that’s not a double entendre… nor a comment about the chicken flesh), and she wastes no opportunity to have fun at my expense (again, no hidden meaning intended)… she even smiles and says that she’s running out of new things to do with (to?) me, knowing full well that I’ve come back to do the “old’ things again (and again… and, if I survive, perhaps even one more time). She is good natured with her torments, though, and while it is probably unfair of her to engage in a war of wits with an unarmed rabbit (technically, an "assault of wit"), I admit that it’s a great deal of fun, and one of the things I like most about her….
Which leads to one of the other things I like most about her. Man, can this lady “tickle”. Definitely very, very fair.
*thumpthumpthumpthumpthump*
And not only does she “tickle” the sweet dickens out of me, she is exceptionally convincing in all matters of make-believe (from making you believe she’s doing things she isn’t actually doing, to making you believe that she’s enjoying your attentions as much as you are enjoying hers). So convincing, in fact, that I find I have to pretty much ignore everything that all of my senses are telling me, just to keep my “perspective”. Yes… “perspective” includes “sanity”.
In the wake and aftermath, Ms. Lilith spends some tender moments with me, and THAT’S one of the things I like most about her…. But now she’s doing something very, very devious… in amongst the naughty suggestions, she gives glimpses into what makes this magnificent creature tick… and she tells half-stories with cliff hangers… and she quite methodically goes about building that irresistible intrigue that pretty much guarantees you’ll be back as soon as you possibly can just to get more (as if the thorough "tickling" wasn't enough?)… and then you find that it isn’t possible for bloody weeks! This is, of course, brilliant – but definitely not fair. Way unfair.
So, does Lilith love bunnies? I doubt I’ll ever really know (I’ve become too subjective), but she sure does provide a very reasonable hand-drawn facsimile with proof of purchase.
And is Lilith fair? Without any doubt. And absolutely not. I’m quite surprised at how both can be true at the same time.
Finally, does it matter? I’ll tell you after I see her again. I have to see her again. Because, once again, the research leads to more important unanswered questions… the next one being “Is Lilith Seraphim or Succubus?”.
Wish me luck, because I doubt that adding holy water to the crushed biscuits in frozen calf nourishment is going to save me….
Happy thumping, all!
