Postcard from the Land of Sleep Regained (For Now)

[greygirlbeast]

I slept more than eight hours last night, which was a great relief, as I was stupid and useless and somewhat ill all day yesterday, due to the two nights before. And I did it without Ambien. Whenever I happen to note that I'm not sleeping well, I'm often met with advice which I understand to be well meaning. But sometimes it can be unintentionally

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[corucia]

CRK said: And I imagined all the people who have opened this book in that time, and taken it out, and read it.

Your paragraph summed up one of my major concerns with the burgeoning movement toward digital representations of formerly physical objects, in this case books. That book, randomly out of all of the copies printed, has accumulated over the years a unique history that endows it with a gravitas that no other book possesses. I see no way in which that can occur with a digital version. No matter how closely it represents the physical, there's no way that it can accumulate any history. It's a case of enhancing the immediate to the detriment of the potential. (In some ways, a fitting metaphor for the current attitudes of most of the populace.)

I've dropped a box in the mail to you - a book and ...something else. The 'something else' may require Spooky's talents. If neither fit your fancy, feel free to pass them on...

[lady_theadora]

Recently I was wondering if there is an index to Sirenia Digest. I will often want to re-read a certain story, but can never remember which stories are in which volume.

It also occurred to me that if you haven't made an index, maybe one of your subscribers has...

[benjamin_h]

There's an index linked off of her Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Caitl%C3%ADn_R._Kiernan#Sirenia_Digest

[lady_theadora]

And there it is! Thanks.

[fusijui]

I've had some bad bouts of insomnia... no solution really worth a damn as far as I could tell. Sorry you're stuck with it so much! But this article about cushy sleep gadgets (below) points out a hidden trigger: CONVENIENCE STORES! I never would have guessed...

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/member/member.html?mode=getarticle&file=nn20100501f2.html