Oh, and bits of the stairs are visible in every shot - the pale bars with pretend leaves on in the first, the roundy thing at the bottom of the newel-post in the second and the blurry objects behind the desk in the third...the medical-looking bottle cap there is in fact a jar of bronze powder I found under the art department's upper window, but no-one claimed it and it was shiny, so.
I, ah, am glad to be missed by you. It is a very nice feeling - almost akin to the feeling of walking in the woods and finding absolutely nothing wanting to eat you. I am not sure if the Education Gods are appeased. I did what I could, but I still feel like they keep watching me distrustfully. Maybe it's because I'm writing sword & planet adventures and not my graduation thesis...
Ah, I did not realise it was in two stories... Also, blacking out the bathroom creates a very dramatic atmosphere. Are you allowed to paint the walls however you like? Do you have a garden outside, or a forest or a mountain? Also, do you mean powdered bronze, or a powder that is bronze-coloured?
Alas, healthcare is a fairly conservative field...
You own a (tiny) house? The idea fills me with inexplicable glee! What kind of flooring are you thinking about? I think 200m is about 100m more than anything I can find locally, so yes, I would at least secretly call it a mountain even if it wanted to be a hill. Does Orkney have mountains that are also locally accepted to be mountains, not just hills?
It burns? The most amazing kind of bronze powder! I admire you for appropriating it.
Still, it might benefit from broadening its horizons to the hazy blue behind the curtain...relatedly, I was reading a fictionalised graphic-novel account of life with epilepsy recently and was struck by the similarities - and equally, the differences - between the disease as described/pictured, my pre-migraine 'darkening' and Siberian "shaman sickness"...alas, I doubt neurologists would be keen to listen to shamans/try some kind of spirit-roping CBT, but it's the sort of thing that makes me want to mad science.
I do! Well, assuming I get the mortgage paid someday, and I will try hard to. Thinking about woodlike laminate downstairs, not a clue about upstairs yet. I'm not at all keen on soft carpets.
No, no actual mountains. High hills, though, including those on, well, Hoy.
It looks highly interesting. This is mostly a new thing to me, but, inspiringly, at least some neurologists seem more and more predisposed to listen to shamans. And if reading Conan the Barbarian is a way to cope with Vietnam battle stress... Who knows? Maybe in the future it'll be acceptable if I call upon the ancient interplanetary mountain goddesses to help my patients...
The graphic novel? Pretty, too. You can read it chapter-by-chapter online since the author's keen to spread the word, though I'm considering suggesting a print copy to the local library. Great! It's not like modern medicine knows much more about the squishy bits, and if older forms have hit on a thing that works why not...on the theme of interplanetary mountain goddesses, did I tell you my theory that Lovecraft had a shamanic experience at some point?
It isn't very pretty but its service is fantastic: it has won awards for being the Best Library. It has all sorts of weird things in back, save the journal of an explorer crossing between Alaska and Siberia, which was catalogued, but the librarians reluctantly concluded must have been eaten by mice or something when the back stacks were moved to the new premises over a decade ago. It buys in oddness comics like Through the Woods and Journey Into Mohawk Country, which are both amazing.
Certainly you may, though it might be sense to wait until I have a floor, and also until my mother has left, since her first reaction was also "I must visit!". Only she hasn't decided when, and apparently hasn't decided whether she's going to holiday or help out, either, or if she'll bring any other relatives...*hff*
Read as much of this article as you can see - hopefully Google won't cut out the visions themselves. They are very familiar, and Lovecraft was known to have experimented with at least opiates (also, the local shaman in the article's
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You live in a tiny house on a northern sea island and you have the Best Library? Ah, what great happiness! Said comics I've not ever heard of, except maybe the latter, because the title sounds a little familiar.
It's alright, I was thinking of next spring at the earliest.
Ah! It is most amazing - I very nearly wept at the account of the experience among the Conibo. And yes, I can see the parallel between those visions and Lovecraft's. Terrifying, yet marvellous. I wonder if my local library - which, if not Best, is at least cosy - has a copy of the book...
Those bug-dragon critters with the disproportionate wings are pretty much exactly Lovecraft's Plutonians, and the man fixated with terror on Egyptian gods, too...the old shaman's "yeah, they always say that" fires me with awe and pride at mortal ability to withstand.
If it doesn't and/or inter-library loans are steep I could lend you my copy, providing you didn't lose it. It's a very good reader, for the most part.
They don't have it, but please don't send me your copy. I already lost your Gormenghast and I still feel bad about it. I'll see what else they have about shamanism instead.
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Ah, I did not realise it was in two stories... Also, blacking out the bathroom creates a very dramatic atmosphere. Are you allowed to paint the walls however you like? Do you have a garden outside, or a forest or a mountain? Also, do you mean powdered bronze, or a powder that is bronze-coloured?
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You own a (tiny) house? The idea fills me with inexplicable glee! What kind of flooring are you thinking about? I think 200m is about 100m more than anything I can find locally, so yes, I would at least secretly call it a mountain even if it wanted to be a hill. Does Orkney have mountains that are also locally accepted to be mountains, not just hills?
It burns? The most amazing kind of bronze powder! I admire you for appropriating it.
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I do! Well, assuming I get the mortgage paid someday, and I will try hard to. Thinking about woodlike laminate downstairs, not a clue about upstairs yet. I'm not at all keen on soft carpets.
No, no actual mountains. High hills, though, including those on, well, Hoy.
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No, you did not. Please, elaborate.
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Certainly you may, though it might be sense to wait until I have a floor, and also until my mother has left, since her first reaction was also "I must visit!". Only she hasn't decided when, and apparently hasn't decided whether she's going to holiday or help out, either, or if she'll bring any other relatives...*hff*
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It's alright, I was thinking of next spring at the earliest.
Sadness! I was not able to read any of it...
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I may even have a floor by then, indeed. [excitement]
Alas! That edition seems to have broken...this any better?
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If it doesn't and/or inter-library loans are steep I could lend you my copy, providing you didn't lose it. It's a very good reader, for the most part.
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