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[ghazalah]

For Stephen in love

I've Dreamed of You So MuchI've dreamed of you so much that you're losing your reality

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[jewelweed]

A fellow Bostonian poet (though nothing like Robert Desnos!), and lover of Dr. Maturin salutes you and friends you. I love your journal and your taste is both poetry and literary characters.

Cheers!

Suzanne

[ghazalah]

Salud! And thank you! Boston, eh? Poet, eh? :-)

Jewelweed is one of my favorite wildflowers! I love the way it lurks in shady places and then blooms those crazy orange flowers. And the snap-pods! So you are trebly welcome!

[jewelweed]

Jewelweed has always felt very resonant for me. "Touch-me-not" and it propagated by exploding. Also the leaves gleam like silver under water. Amazing flower!

Yep, Boston. Currently moving out of the North End and looking for new digs, likely in the Brighton/Brookline area. Yep, poet. :-) I also sometimes delve into visual art.

Speaking of which, I ADORE the background for your journal. What is it from??

I like your reading. I like the poems you dig up. This journal is just plain wonderful reading. I feel you have a profound understanding of our favorite doctor and the workings of his heart. I am reading the Aubrey/Maturin series for the summer and cannot put them down!

[ghazalah]

"Touch-me-not" and it propagated by exploding.

:-D I never thought of that way!

Good luck with the moving. Hope it's not too stressful.

The background is a dive into the geekiest corners of geekdom. Remember how Stephen's first book was The Phanerogams of Upper Ossory? So, I found this image of a 1702 specimen book at the Department of Phanerogamic Botany of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. I love it. I imagine Stephen kept one that looked similar. :-) It's a beautiful book.

For the rest of your post, just *blush*. I don't feel like I understand him very well at all, but I try hard: maybe that's what you see?

I'm ready to start The Surgeon's Mate, but I'm making myself wait. I don't want to eat the whole bag of chips all at once... I just started Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle: O'Brian lifted a whole chapter! *loves*

[jewelweed]

You do rather well I think! And I admire the geekiness of it all! Damned good sources!

Voyage of the Beagle is a wonderful book. O'Brian lifted a chapter? *cracks up* WHERE? I love that!

I am reading the books a little bit ata time. It really has opened up a new world for me.

[ghazalah]

The whole chapter about Saint Paul's Rocks! :-D Read it side-by-side with Stephen's adventures there in HMS Surprise. White rocks, stank-ass smell, spiders, thieving crabs, stupid boobies, the buckets of geological samples. *delighted*

Darwin apparently kept his clothes on, however. :-p