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zarahemlacaprice (kuh-PREES) noun
1. A sudden, unpredictable change of mind or behavior.
2. Capriccio: a musical composition in free, irregular style.
[From French, from Italian capriccio, from caporiccio (head with bristling hair), from capo (head) + riccio (hedgehog, curly) from Latin ericius (hedgehog).]
(This is "Enemy At the Gates," doing Vassily Zeitsev (Jude Law) for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
winter_baby, because she needs it. Keeping in mind of course that I haven't actually seen the movie since it came out.)
You're sure it's God's whim that keeps you from being shot. Leaping from wall to roof, sliding around pillars and old masonry, you are in open space enough to know it's more than luck: got to be. If the cold is God's curse, than everything else has to be good, because the cold eats you alive.
Something is there between you and Tania: she is brave, she follows you around, you catch her looking at you sideways as girls might do when there isn't a war on. But what the hell are you supposed to do about it, freezing your balls off in the day and surrounded by two hundred soldiers at night, sleeping in your full uniform and watching your breath steam out to the stars? Nothing, that's what.
And always the need to be better than everyone, the need to be invisible because that Nazi is just on your tail, and that Nazi is just one step away from being better, from blowing a hole in you. Russia may be a Godless nation, but you believe in God, and you believe that His caprice may be the only thing that sends down those convenient fogs, that makes men turn their eyes away when you slip past them.
Will she find someone else when you finally run out of luck? Will Danilov find another hero? Can you be better, be best, for so long without failing? Will it ever, ever be warm again?
1. A sudden, unpredictable change of mind or behavior.
2. Capriccio: a musical composition in free, irregular style.
[From French, from Italian capriccio, from caporiccio (head with bristling hair), from capo (head) + riccio (hedgehog, curly) from Latin ericius (hedgehog).]
(This is "Enemy At the Gates," doing Vassily Zeitsev (Jude Law) for
winter_baby, because she needs it. Keeping in mind of course that I haven't actually seen the movie since it came out.)You're sure it's God's whim that keeps you from being shot. Leaping from wall to roof, sliding around pillars and old masonry, you are in open space enough to know it's more than luck: got to be. If the cold is God's curse, than everything else has to be good, because the cold eats you alive.
Something is there between you and Tania: she is brave, she follows you around, you catch her looking at you sideways as girls might do when there isn't a war on. But what the hell are you supposed to do about it, freezing your balls off in the day and surrounded by two hundred soldiers at night, sleeping in your full uniform and watching your breath steam out to the stars? Nothing, that's what.
And always the need to be better than everyone, the need to be invisible because that Nazi is just on your tail, and that Nazi is just one step away from being better, from blowing a hole in you. Russia may be a Godless nation, but you believe in God, and you believe that His caprice may be the only thing that sends down those convenient fogs, that makes men turn their eyes away when you slip past them.
Will she find someone else when you finally run out of luck? Will Danilov find another hero? Can you be better, be best, for so long without failing? Will it ever, ever be warm again?