Only Boring People Fall Down
From School Library Journal, June of 1998, an interview with Madeleine L'Engle which was partially about what the last Meg book would (be/have been) about:
Meg is talking with her daughter Peggy.... the way we fight cancer now is to cut it out or kill it, whereas we should try to convert it. Meg says we are doing it in a masculine way, by killing and cutting, that the feminine way would be to try to convert these cancer cells back to normal cells. We've been doing things the male way for too long, and it has not proven successful.
As I was telling hobbledehoy, I don't really like the way it uses the gender binary, but it does kind of fit the evolving gender roles of the L'Engleverse, and moreover I am fascinated by what it says about Meg. It is making me rethink how I look at Meg. I know I've read this quote before, and I'm not sure why it never struck me this hard before, but. Striking! It is now striking!
(I would like to say I am getting my ability to write fic back, but that is a lie. I am getting back the ability to write a few paragraphs and then stare, despondent, at the open documents. THERE ARE EIGHT.)
I know I talk about these things a lot, but normally there are conflicts and now there won't be, so.
Would anyone be interested in a reality TV primer, explaining everything you need to know about Big Brother and/or Survivor?
I would not like anyone to have to stay away just because they don't know how to jump in during the (9th and/or 16th) season.
I am a human ball of stress right now, AND I'm boring. I would accept either, but both just seems unfair.
I'm going to be more exciting when the semester starts, and that's just sad.
...Hi, LiveJournal. I think I will go back to attempting fic now.
Meg is talking with her daughter Peggy.... the way we fight cancer now is to cut it out or kill it, whereas we should try to convert it. Meg says we are doing it in a masculine way, by killing and cutting, that the feminine way would be to try to convert these cancer cells back to normal cells. We've been doing things the male way for too long, and it has not proven successful.
As I was telling hobbledehoy, I don't really like the way it uses the gender binary, but it does kind of fit the evolving gender roles of the L'Engleverse, and moreover I am fascinated by what it says about Meg. It is making me rethink how I look at Meg. I know I've read this quote before, and I'm not sure why it never struck me this hard before, but. Striking! It is now striking!
(I would like to say I am getting my ability to write fic back, but that is a lie. I am getting back the ability to write a few paragraphs and then stare, despondent, at the open documents. THERE ARE EIGHT.)
I know I talk about these things a lot, but normally there are conflicts and now there won't be, so.
Would anyone be interested in a reality TV primer, explaining everything you need to know about Big Brother and/or Survivor?
I would not like anyone to have to stay away just because they don't know how to jump in during the (9th and/or 16th) season.
I am a human ball of stress right now, AND I'm boring. I would accept either, but both just seems unfair.
I'm going to be more exciting when the semester starts, and that's just sad.
...Hi, LiveJournal. I think I will go back to attempting fic now.