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Gee, it's been over a week since I've had a day off work. Getting a bit... you know, tired now. Need a day of nothingness. (not that I ever have many of those, either... have dog training and walkies to do, commissions to complete, bedroom to tidy, and so on and so forth.)
I've started reading Patricia Finney's third Elizabethan book in her series about the mismatched heroes, Becket and Ames. So far it hasn't grabbed me like the previous two - it's got a weird pseudo-fantasy edge to it, this one, with there being a suggestion of certain characters having visions or being clairvoyant. It's a little odd. Yes, the first one had the ravings and visions of a madman, but this one is different. And it features African slaves which has thrown me off a little. *But* it did have a nice analogy of the similarities and differences between two "clerks" - the fiercely Catholic Philip of Spain, and in contrast, the severely Protestant Francis Walsingham, both men buried in papers at their desks. I never thought about the similarities between those two before - maybe they are quite similar?
Anyway, I shall keep reading - maybe I'm just too tired to be bothered at the moment. I've got to go to work tonight, then have a double shift tomorrow starting at 8am and ending sometime around 10pm, with an hour's break (hopefully) in the middle. It's gonna be a killer weekend. :) But I can do it - think of zee money! (which I need for my Christmas shopping next week.)
Anyways, finally, here's part of a sketch I'm drawing based on Marie Brennan's Elizabethan fantasy, Midnight Never Come. This is the fabulous scene where Walsie puzzles his way through the political situation and its players by using a chess set and the aid of a young man he is patron of, a fictional figure called Michael Deven. (I think it possibly owes a lot to the scene in Elizabeth between Walsie and Thomas Elyot, which is similar.)
Linky: A Strange Game of Chess
I've started reading Patricia Finney's third Elizabethan book in her series about the mismatched heroes, Becket and Ames. So far it hasn't grabbed me like the previous two - it's got a weird pseudo-fantasy edge to it, this one, with there being a suggestion of certain characters having visions or being clairvoyant. It's a little odd. Yes, the first one had the ravings and visions of a madman, but this one is different. And it features African slaves which has thrown me off a little. *But* it did have a nice analogy of the similarities and differences between two "clerks" - the fiercely Catholic Philip of Spain, and in contrast, the severely Protestant Francis Walsingham, both men buried in papers at their desks. I never thought about the similarities between those two before - maybe they are quite similar?
Anyway, I shall keep reading - maybe I'm just too tired to be bothered at the moment. I've got to go to work tonight, then have a double shift tomorrow starting at 8am and ending sometime around 10pm, with an hour's break (hopefully) in the middle. It's gonna be a killer weekend. :) But I can do it - think of zee money! (which I need for my Christmas shopping next week.)
Anyways, finally, here's part of a sketch I'm drawing based on Marie Brennan's Elizabethan fantasy, Midnight Never Come. This is the fabulous scene where Walsie puzzles his way through the political situation and its players by using a chess set and the aid of a young man he is patron of, a fictional figure called Michael Deven. (I think it possibly owes a lot to the scene in Elizabeth between Walsie and Thomas Elyot, which is similar.)
Linky: A Strange Game of Chess