Bach Canon Played as a Moebius Strip

Every so often, the topic of music comes up around the DN fandom, or around people who RP as L, or etc. Suggestions are made about what various characters would like, fans agree or disagree... it's harmless speculation.

After a lot of thought, I came to the conclusion that canon!L probably doesn't like music at all: we think he must because we like it, but he really doesn't seem to want to be distracted from his work. We see him sitting in silence and requesting quiet.

I've seen a few good suggestions, though, for music he might like if he did listen to it at all, and my own vote always goes in for J.S. Bach, based on elements that aren't easy to explain (the mathematical qualities of counterpoint, for example). This video is a fantastic demonstration of what I mean; also, it doesn't require a fandom connection to be fascinating.

[I have been making posts to this journal here and there, but I felt odd about cluttering up people's friends pages with them, so I've been backdating them. There's some stuff I've been meaning to post. When I do, I won't backdate it.]

This is something I want to get together for myself, because I've been having problems with it while trying to icon for quarter_english, so I will put it under the cut and work on it as I have the chance.

I already expect that I'll be changing some of the categories, because, for example, L has little use for a "flirty" icon, but frequently uses a "fake innocent" one (well, at least as I play him, he does). He needs a pile of "staring" "walking around" and "inquisitive/curious" ones, too.

( look out! there's a giant icon table under here. )

No chapter on walking could be complete without a nod to the private detective, who started to appear in the nineteenth century. He is an attractive character precisely because he is essentially an idler, as Walter Benjamin wrote in Arcades:
The truth of Benjamin's observation is embodied in that great literary loafer Sherlock Holmes, who, we conjecture, became a detective because he liked to loaf in his fictional world; to watch, to think, to walk. Like the poet, the detective does his work by walking and by sitting. He is not a victim of society; instead, he watches it, he stands outside it, he enjoys it, he smiles at its foibles.

-- Tom Hodgkinson

We want to believe that things last for ever, whether it is love, life, God, or the laws of nature. But death, as Freud continually reminds us, is what certainty looks like. Perhaps the best we can hope for is to live in uncertainty for as long as we can bear it.

-- Christopher Potter

Title: Birthday
Rating: PG
Pairings/Characters: L, Beyond Birthday, cameo appearances by the rest of the NPA task force
Warnings: Does a ghost merit a warning?
Word Count: 2941
Notes: This is my first fanfic in almost 15 years. I think I owe part of the concept of ghost!B to knights_say_nih. The idea to write about B haunting L on his last birthday (the only birthday when it would have been possible) comes from some free association (Halloween, L's Birthday, Beyond Birthday, etc). Also, L'Osier is a real restaurant, considered one of the top French restaurants in Tokyo -- which makes it one of the best in the world.

Written for dn_contest Week #31 - Halloween. Cross-posted to eru_dition.

( I could have stopped your breathing in your sleep. )