I was up marking coursework till nearly 3am last night and now my head is full of wool and my neck feels simultaneously stiff and too wobbly. Today was running up and down stairs chasing more coursework, sending the students out to buy plastic folders and find me the hole punch because surely you're not submitting THAT? It's all in but one now,
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I've bought Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman for two boys now. Though not this one yet, hmm.
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Still, I know what I shall be rereading this weekend in between Other Things.
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He also, if you followed him in Interzone, wrote a short story about Lesbian Totalitarians, with 'work camps' for men, on which the comments at the time said, you can get away with that, but no one else could.
I read The Unconquered Country but I recall little other than a thing about counting in 'bunches' which now always pops into the top of my head when I see things about mathematical geniuses.
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There was a TV show about the writing of Lust which just put me off so much I've never read it. He went to the publishers with 5 ideas and they didn't like any of them, so he picked another out of the air. SEX, with a wish. They said yes. And then involved their editing process so much they underminded what was already a hairline-good idea. Criticizing him to the extent of a 'mixed metaphor' when the original (something like 'he walked like a bag of bones, shaken) was perfect, evocative, and for flips sake he's the writer not your jobbing sub-ed. Get out of his face.
Before CelestialWeasel says it, 253 was CW's favourite ambitious project of that year which eneded up not bad at all.
I liked (loved) the novella which begins The ( ... )
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Was thinking about you, and meaning to drop you a line. I owe this evening's reading matter to you, in a manner of speaking, as it was the Kindly Ones, and I discovered (and met) Gaiman while getting your rats drawn.
Hope all is well, and to get over to Oxford some time soon. Prob in London Sun, if you're in the Smoke this weekend. And loved your post about magic realism, and real magic.
I appear to be blathering. Apologies ;-)
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In fact, I know he doesn't, because I just went and took it out myself. Who owns the Arctic anyway? They owe me big royalties.
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(BTW, I'm rewriting it again. But that chapter's gone.)
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I have to write 5 minutes of standup for Monday and then a poem for a poetry slam evening (with improv instrumental accompaniment!) for Wendesday. I'm starting with the type of writing that my concentration span can accommodate, and hopefully working my way up from there...
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