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guestbook
hi! if i've friended you, you probably post fabulous fiction, amusing anecdotes, or something equally exciting. if you've friended me, well, welcome to the madhouse, and try not to trip over the alliteration as you come in!
just commenting on the most recent post to introduce oneself, i've found, can be problematic. this post is intended to help ( Read more... ) -
if only i had time & money!
w.h. auden, "dichtung und wahrheit"
beth bachmann, temper
charles baxter, the feast of love
john burnside's poetry
a.s. byatt, the children's book
guy davenport, the geography of the imagination
annie dillard, pilgrim at tinker creek
patricia duncker, hallucinating foucault #
christopher fry, the lady's not for burning
rudolf pell gaudio, allah made us #
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"How Culhwch Won Olwen"
talk from the trenches:
dolique: it's just all "blah blah blah his mother went insane and gave birth in a pigsty, therefore our hero is named Pigsty"
dolique: and "he knows a lot of courtiers' names which means the storyteller would have had to as well, which means the story functions as a repository for cyfarwyddyd which is a word for folklore with a lot of Ds ( Read more... ) -
PSA
oh my goodness, you guys, it has been so long & well i know it. i have actually been documenting my days, i promise-i am not that far failed as a diarist!-but only really in emails to B. /o\
so i have copy-pasted the paste-able bits, with some tweaks, under the summer: 2009: france tag, backdated to the time the emails were sent so as not to spam ( Read more... ) -
salut du dordogne
hello again, LJ!
words are still not coming easily to me: i'm stupidly tired in the evenings, or more accurately most of the day, which i suspect is due to my imbibing less caffeine than i'm used to, & more alcohol. (the latter, i feel i should emphasize, is wine rather than anything stronger, & doesn't flow with quite this frequency except in ( Read more... ) -
from "starlings in winter" by mary oliver
I want
to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing
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dolce far niente
(in the interest of full disclosure, much of this is adapted from an email i sent to B yesterday.)
so despite the subject line, i was a bit of a busy bee yesterday! um, in the morning i had a rummage through the family jewels-grandiose name tho that is for them!-& rediscovered my... great-grandmother's, i think, perfume ball necklace:
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from "Sally's Hair" by John Koethe
It's like living in a light bulb, with the leaves
Like filaments and the sky a shell of thin, transparent glass
Enclosing the late heaven of a summer day, a canopy
Of incandescent blue above the dappled sunlight golden on the grass.
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[meta] reccing, reviewing, & the difference between the two
it's almost four in the morning, and i am feeling thinky. so. repost time! ( Read more... )
