"All the charms of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!"

[greygirlbeast]

I think Spring is beginning to think about considering possibly coming somewhere near Rhode Island. Highs in the high 40s Fahrenheit. We may have 60s by late April.

Yesterday was a bloody nightmare of double-barreled line editing. No, no, no. That almost makes it sound fun, and it was at that other end of the spectrum from fun. Spooky and Sonya

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[strange_selkie]

Sonya does, desultorily at least, speak French. I think she learnt it at Yale. If you have stuff you can send me tonight -- russetblack at gmail dot com -- I have a French person (from France) here until tomorrow night, at which point she'll be going back to Toronto, but we can probably whack at it over dinner.

[greygirlbeast]

Sonya does, desultorily at least, speak French. I think she learnt it at Yale. If you have stuff you can send me tonight -- russetblack at gmail dot com -- I have a French person (from France) here until tomorrow night, at which point she'll be going back to Toronto, but we can probably whack at it over dinner.

Sonya passed. Thanks muchly for the offer, but I seriously doubt, in all the chaos, that I'll be able to pull the relevant pages/passages together for a few days yet.

[strange_selkie]

Luck with the endeavor, then. I will also defer for lack of native skill. Alas!

I hear good things about the Palestinian food, at least.

[greygirlbeast]

I hear good things about the Palestinian food, at least.

It's wonderful!

[seismickitten]

"I'll do the sensible thing, and begin the second and third volumes with concise "Our Story Thus Far" sections, which can be skipped if they're not needed."

Yes. Wonderful. I don't understand why more writers don't do this. There are few things so frustrating as recap. I actually hadn't recalled, but my partner and I have been listening to the Harry Potter series (her first time) and there has been a surprising amount of recap at the beginning books 2-4. It's like treading water and it's been driving both of us mad.

[greygirlbeast]

I don't understand why more writers don't do this.

I have no idea. It's so sensible.

[mellawyrden]

Congratulations on getting so much done. What a huge accomplishment.

[greygirlbeast]

What a huge accomplishment.

Thank you, though, as regards Two Worlds..., I feel as though I've hardly scratched the surface.

Derek Jarman

[thebacchanal]

she showed me Derek Jarman's adaptation of The Tempest (1979), which was, by turns (and, sometimes, all at once), sublime, grotesque, and beautiful. Jarman's cinematic composition always amazes me, each shot framed like a Renaissance painting, so arresting to the eye that you almost don't want to progress to the next frame of film.The Tempest is perhaps my favorite Jarman film, although The Angelic Conversation and Caravaggio are hauntingly queer social indictments I also number amidst the films I most admire. I love how he removes Caliban from the traditional post-colonial readings and instead creates an Oedipal Other of the man/monster. Ariel's alchemical queerness is arresting (Karl Johnson's fragile, ghostly visage didn't hurt either, if you find that sort of thing attractive), and of course the influence of Caravaggio's Tenebrist style of intense chiaroscuro creates the perfect amount of weird atmosphere for Shakespeare's perhaps darkest comedy. I'm glad you enjoyed it! You might want to check out Jarman's Jubilee if you enjoyed

Re: Derek Jarman

[greygirlbeast]

The Tempest is perhaps my favorite Jarman film

At the moment, The Last of England is my favorite, but there are many I've not seen.

Re: Derek Jarman

[thebacchanal]

I suspect your appreciate for The Last of England is in no small way due to Tilda Swinton's performance? If so, I can't blame you. I have quite a hetero-crush on her (I only address it as such since I am a gay male), although I wonder if it the boyish charm of her androgynous countenance that I find so charming.

Re: Derek Jarman

[sovay]

Ariel's alchemical queerness is arresting (Karl Johnson's fragile, ghostly visage didn't hurt either, if you find that sort of thing attractive)

I find him very beautiful, and as Ariel very nonhuman. (I need to make an icon of him, frankly.) He's also a lovely Wittgenstein. I haven't yet seen him in Jubilee.

[ex_kaz_maho]

So. I finally read Chapter 2 of The Drowning Girl: A Memoir and I enjoyed it even more than Chapter 1, which I wasn't sure could happen - considering how good the first one was, I mean.

This book is utterly compelling. I mean that sincerely, and not in a kiss-ass way. Seriously, once I started I couldn't stop reading and was even annoyed that the chapter ended and I couldn't continue. Something disturbing about Imp's voice draws me in. I have this growing sense of unease, that something terrible is going to happen... I know it's there, floating just on the edge of my vision - like the ghosts she talks about - but I can't quite capture it. Such a wonderful voice. That voice takes the reader by the hand and leads them on a journey; one filled with twists and turns that leave us no choice but to follow.

I love it.

[greygirlbeast]

Thank you. At this moment, these words of encouragement are most especially encouraged.