kali

Well, to bring it back to a Torchwood discussion for you and I -- I see a lot of people, when they try to suss out the world Jack is from talk about how it needs to be divorced from things like gender, race and species. Really? Where's the charge in that? Perhaps there is one, and we simply can't imagine it, or perhaps the trick of it is comfort with discomfort -- a desirous equivalent to the Japanese mono no aware?

A remarkable number of people in my life have been fluent in languages they could neither read nor write. It's an odd thing.