Howard Hughes Forgets How to Sleep

[greygirlbeast]

1. I went to bed about four ayem. Sometime after five I got up again, wide fucking awake. I went to bed the second time a few minutes past six and managed to sleep until noon. I hurt with sleeplessness

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[sovay]

(which I'm still considering titling "αψίνθιον," if only because I know it would tick off jackholes like B.R. Myers)

You'll want a smooth breathing mark over the alpha: ἀψίνθιον.

I like the creepy alien graffiti.

[greygirlbeast]

You'll want a smooth breathing mark over the alpha: ἀψίνθιον.

In that case, you should correct the Wikipedia entry.

[sovay]

In that case, you should correct the Wikipedia entry.

Will do, if Wikipedia lets me. Here's its entry in Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon.

[graypumpkin]

Cool pictures, so many beautiful places to see in the world.

As to the Canadian hockey team, people get worked-up over the littlest things, I understand that there needs to be rules for this stuff otherwise people would be rioting after every win, but come on. Tell them to chill-out and leave it at that, I heard talk about official inquires into their behavior. They got a little rowdy after the big win, relax people.

[greygirlbeast]

They got a little rowdy after the big win, relax people.

And they're fer-chissakes-hockey players, already!

[jdack]

And George Bush.

That man really can fuck up anything.

[fusijui]

I too am deeply interested in ἀψίνθιον (vs. ἄψινθος) and want to ask -- ooh! Photos of rocks!

(The creepy head sorta looks like a frustrated facehugger got busy with it.)

[greygirlbeast]

(The creepy head sorta looks like a frustrated facehugger got busy with it.)

Yep.

[fusijui]

Aliens : Fossils :: Chocolate : Peanut Butter.

If so, then I suggest that freaky expressions of libido = cherry on top.

[robyn_ma]

Something related that I meant to get into yesterday: that B.R. Myers thing - wherein he sneers at Cormac McCarthy, among others - was written well before what I would call McCarthy's late-period style, seen in No Country for Old Men and The Road. Now, I love both these books. But in terms of content and style, they're not Blood Meridian. They're simpler, all the way around; they're even easier on the Myerses of the world than the Border Trilogy was. And yet, blammo, both these books were turned into movies, and the latter won McCarthy a Pulitzer and won him an audience with Oprah (clearly the ultimate goal for any writer, of course!). It would well and truly suck if people took the wrong lesson from this - that now that ol' Cormac ain't fancyin' up his writing, he gets prizes and Oprah and best-sellers and movie deals. Not having read the Laura Miller thing, I have no idea if that was actually one of her points...

[greygirlbeast]

It would well and truly suck if people took the wrong lesson from this - that now that ol' Cormac ain't fancyin' up his writing, he gets prizes and Oprah and best-sellers and movie deals.

I don't want to look at the article again to be sure, but I don't recall her mentioning McCarthy. Of course, I am trying to erase that article from my brain.

But, you can see the same thing sort in my own prose. Writers evolve. Their styles change. Look at the style that Silk and Threshold were written in, compared to the more straight-forward prose in Daughter of Hounds and The Red Tree (and more so in some of my recent short fiction). It never occurred to me this change might lead to a larger readership (and it hasn't). It's just what happened.