"Beneath this bold and brilliant sun..."

[greygirlbeast]

I've just been told that Twitter has taken credit for the Russian Revolution.

Today is Darwin Day.

Here in Providence, the smallest fraction of snow has melted. The cold hangs in the air, thick as soup. In the the house, the house I do not leave, I suspect the humidity is in the single digits. The air is crisp, and it crackles when I walk through

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[chn_breathmint]

But I'm beginning to wonder if I left readers with the impression that my death was a necessary part of their answers. It's not. You may actually work with the living flesh.

My false sculpture proposal doesn't require your death - parts of it would actually be more convenient if you were alive. (:

It might sidestep the "making art with your physical body" part, but then ceramic kilns tend to reduce most biological matter to cinders.

- Mel

[greygirlbeast]

My false sculpture proposal doesn't require your death - parts of it would actually be more convenient if you were alive.

This is why I said almost all....

[chn_breathmint]

I would love to fake out the gallery by having you take part in the installation, though. Cross the line into performance, too.

- Mel

[greygirlbeast]

I would love to fake out the gallery by having you take part in the installation, though. Cross the line into performance, too.

I like that very, very much.

[ashlyme]

I went to the local Sea Life Centre today, partially for inspiration for the Question @ Hand, and I thought of you and your stories. Not that many tentacles, but I saw a sea apple for the first time. And I've fallen in love. It looks as if it should belong on one of your covers.
Still not devised the Aunt Beast Sculpture yet, but I'd rather not bump you off.

[greygirlbeast]

Still not devised the Aunt Beast Sculpture yet, but I'd rather not bump you off.

This sentence makes me smile.

[tsarina]

And this is why I detest proposals and outlines. This is how I discover a story, by writing it. I never could have imagined the end of the novel, because to learn that end I had to blindly travel the road of the book.

Reading this today was good for me. Thank you.

[greygirlbeast]

Reading this today was good for me. Thank you.

You're welcome.

[lee_in_limbo]

Not quite finished my offering to your body=art request. Just reading your comment that most folks seem to be doing a hatchet job on you made me think, rather perversely, of an old Blind Melon tune: Skinned. Probably one of several reasons I didn't go that route myself. Of course, I also remember the story from Outside, which is also a direction I didn't go in, but is probably a fair bit closer to where I actually did go.

I'll have it to you in an hour or two, I suspect.

[greygirlbeast]

Of course, I also remember the story from Outside,

Possibly...and possibly not...the thing that triggered this question in my mind.

[jtglover]

Sauna! Fuck yeah! Wasn't that thing amazing? I saw it a year ago and still dream about that closing scene. Also, as I said elsewhere, it felt a bit like what I imagine a Kathe Koja novel might be like in cinematic format.

[greygirlbeast]

I saw it a year ago and still dream about that closing scene.

Truthfully, the shots of the sauna sitting there in the swamp, that thing out of place, were more disturbing to me than the more overt terror at the film's conclusion.

[jtglover]

I kept asking myself about that as well, though the building materials (concrete? ashlar?) disturbed me more than the location, in certain ways. I'm not an expert on premodern sauna construction, but it sure felt alien.