The Mystic List
So I just sat there for a while, gaping at the laptop screen with just one though going through my mind...
This is just too freaking amazing!
I had only been googling for a book I needed for my design coursework, "Desirable Residences - The Renaissance Years", when I spotted a short entry in the search results list, one that English speakers could very easily overlook - "Les Désirs des Femmes"
I only had rudimentary French but even I could translate that, and just one inevitable click later (because of course you click on links like that if you are like me...) and I was there.
The all-black screen simply offered a box for me to input, "Votre nom complet", my full name. Below that it simply said - "Ici vous allez découvrir qui, entre toutes les femmes du monde, a vous désiré, ou qui vous désire encore maintenant."
I thought I got the gist of that sentence, but checked it up with the help of my 11th grade French grammar book (from only 2 years ago, I am 19 now, and male, by the way) and I was right; it translates as: Here you will discover who, of all the women in the world, desired - or still desires you.
Holy Fuckbuckets!
This is the most tempting page online I have ever wanted to get to. And get to it I did, moments later, glancing round to check that my bedroom door was closed behind me.
Again, a second black screen.
Yes, I want to know. Yes, I need to know! Which women want me?
And the list, in white, was in pretty small print, almost too small to read easily, maybe because the list was actually quite long, so I clicked low-right on the zoom-in feature, going to 200%, and the top fifteen or so names were there before me.
I barely registered any of them at first. I don't know why but I felt compelled to find out first how many names there were on the list before getting into exactly who was who, so I scrolled down, and after a double-checked count up, it looked like there were 44 names. Forty Holy Christ-ing four!
So then my slightly flustered mind kicked back into some kind of rationality, and I took a deep breath and told myself to go through the list, clarifying one-by-one who these women were, or are, all the while wondering just where this online list was coming from - who the hell's in charge of it all?
Top name on my list... Mary Evans.
Who the hell is Mary Evans? No idea. My head was mixed up a bit now. I'll decided to think more about who Mary was later. Is Mary even a name these days..?
Now, who's second? Julie Banks. I had to think for a while, but I soon got there. Julie was a girl who had been in the year above me in school. A bit reserved, and we'd never even spoken to each other, and I started to wonder if this list could be relied upon. How can it know which women had private thoughts about me, or about anyone? This is just BS, isn't it?
Julie had moved away for studies and then settled in London, I think. So I decided not to go down that rabbit-hole for now; maybe I didn't want to. Surely, Julie has other hopes and friends, other men in her life, a couple of years later. Maybe best to leave her alone. So, 42 more names.
My eye inevitably went right down the list, seeing what better excitements it could discover. It was too tempting not to. And something quickly became clear. I did not know over half the women named here. Tamsin Earl? Rebecca Smart? Stephanie Hayworth? Who, who and who? And Margery Adams? Whose grandma is that? Or
was
that?
If this list is reliable, it just goes to show: plenty of desires and lusting-after happens without the object knowing about it, maybe from a distance, with no contact, friendship or even passing aquaintance needed. I assure you, I do not know half these names!
My ex-girlfriend, Amy, was there. Why wouldn't she be? We had a great sex-life, before that abrupt finish. But that's a chapter of my life I don't need to go back to now. Next...
Harriet Ranger.