Comments | oursin: Back in the salt-mines/on the chain-gang/whatever

oursin

Back in the salt-mines/on the chain-gang/whatever

Jan 04, 2005 12:50

Dee Crystal update: this has been recovered, an arrest made, and a man charged, just before Christmas. This has not been extensively reported - two sentences in an article in the Independent about the recent thefts from the V&A. Presumably because the crystal and documentation are now evidence, they are not yet back on display. The thief is said to ( Read more... )

annoyance, dee crystal, crabbiness, editors

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oursin January 4 2005, 13:31:42 UTC

Sorely tempted but simply wrote back saying Bad Idea, and after a paragraph about where one might find 'dynamic' (ugh ugh ugh) images of some of the women included, added, did I say what a Really Bad Idea this is? (We could at least have had the right Pankhurst, surely? - this is just the sort of thing that informed reviewers are likely to pick up on.)

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oursin January 4 2005, 15:14:37 UTC

Christabel is in the book (Votes for Women! Chastity for Men!): so clearly we should have her mum on the cover...

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frumiousb January 4 2005, 13:36:14 UTC

Annoying things publishers do. Suggest that, having just produced a book containing material by nearly 100 women, of many of whom there are surviving images, you have on the cover an image of 2 famous feminists who are not among them.

Sigh. It´s so annoying when they do this. Don´t they realize that?

oursin January 4 2005, 15:14:57 UTC

Their reality is not our reality, alas.

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oursin January 4 2005, 21:10:34 UTC

Unless the person who made the link has psychic powers I wot not of, I don't think this otherwise charming coincidence can be the case, since the word 'borderline' has been in that same spot on my website for about 5+ years. Applying Occam's Razor, I see a lot more clueless linkage on badly done websites than predictive intuitions going around.

jonquil December 8 2006, 17:40:13 UTC

I'm glad you got it back.

And damn, I wish I'd had two weeks in London so I could have (A) met you (B) seen your museum. (I also missed the V&A and Sir John Soane's. Again. Damn it.)

oursin December 8 2006, 21:13:59 UTC

I wished we could have met while you were in London. OTOH, we're actually getting some of the museum back from the Science Museum when we move back into refurbished premises next summer.

jonquil December 8 2006, 21:20:02 UTC

I desperately wanted to, but I was entirely being a mother. I think I just forfeited all my feminist cred.