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"And I didn't know you have your own affairs."

greygirlbeast Oct 18, 2020 23:02

Sunny and warmer today. We made it to 78˚F. Last night's low was 40˚F.

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. ~ John Updike*

Picking cave matrix today. I finished Jeff VanderMeer's briliant Dead Astronauts. I think he has become both my favorite living ( Read more... )

lit crit, subterranean press, spooky, language in the hands of idiots, jeff vandermeer, science fiction, signature sheets, weird fiction, the big bang theory, monotony, john updike, new orleans, billy

"...Abraham's daughter raised her voice."

greygirlbeast Jan 21, 2016 12:43

A lot of people seem bemused, perplexed, and even angered by my noting the weather when I make a blog entry. Setting aside, for a moment, the great bearing that the weather has on my emotional state, I will note the words of Ernest Hemingway: "Remember to get the weather in your damn book - weather is very important." And, after all, what is this ( Read more... )

lit crit, weather, weird fiction review, the secret world, outside, that 70s show, the quest, mystery, cold weather, shut in, not working, science, television, shitheels, david bowie, hemingway

"Dying's just another way to leave the ones you love."

greygirlbeast Jul 10, 2012 12:38

I don't write about my dreams much anymore. Frankly, after I began..well...the new drugs, back in 2010, things got better. Dreamsickness became almost a phenomenon of the past. But Lamictal can cause vivid dreams, and when I have to increase my dose - as I have to do every now and then - I get vivid dreams. Crazy vivid, like the old days. Dreams ( Read more... )

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