"The station pulls away from the train; the blue pulls away from the sky."

[greygirlbeast]

I think maybe the summer's heat has passed. The forecast for the remainder of this week is low eighties and seventies. Currently, it's only 81˚F.

And Tor has done their cover reveal thing for Agents of Dreamland. Please have a look. The novella will be out, in bookshops and online, February 28, 2017. Keep watching the skies. The cover is by the

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The cover is by the extremely talented Christine Foltzer, by the way, and I doubt I could be happier with it.

Very nice.

In Rope, I do not know if Hitchcock intended us to see Brandon Shaw (John Dall) and and Phillip Morgan (Farley Granger) as a gay couple, but I find it impossible to watch the film any other way, and I think it very likely it was intentional on the director's part.

I remember reading somewhere this was intended, though I can't remember where. I know the lesbian couple in Suspicion was quite intentional. I feel pretty sure one of the women was a sort of avatar for Hitchcock himself, much as Jimmy Stewart is in Rope. In both cases, it addresses the idea of art about murder inspiring actual murder. I find myself wondering now if Rope was Hitchcock further developing thoughts he started having with Suspicion.

And North by Northwest is just one of those perfect films,

Yeah. I get excited just thinking of the opening, rumbling notes of Bernard Herrmann's score.

even if Hitchcock seems to have believed there were sea cliffs on Long Island

If Shakespeare can put a seacoast in Bohemia . . .

But perhaps someone has enjoyed them, snapshots of my days and nights in Providence, all taken with my iPhone.

I really liked them.