In the gaps in between times leapt their desire
I am tired to the point that I probably shouldn't be answering e-mail today, much less leaving the house to meet up with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch after his matinée as planned, but I ran into some great links:
1. I will need to reconfigure all my metaphors if it turns out that osteocalcin rather than adrenaline drives the fight-or-flight response, but I love the image of the skeleton necessarily involved in the process of freaking out, like one of those pre-Code cartoons where your bones jump out of your skin in shock.
2. Leo Varadkar's double-speaking allusion to Athene was worthy of Odysseus himself. (Ireland is having a great week for language. See also the news that leprechauns might be Roman.)
3. Courtesy of C. S. E. Cooney: Alba Cid, "An Apocryphal History of the Discovery of Migration, or The Sacrifice of the Pfeilstörchen."
4. I had no idea a Yiddish socialist parody of "Give My Regards to Broadway" had ever existed, and yet: Jane Peppler & Randy Kloko, "Rayst arop di shleser." Once again, it's not like robber barons have gone out of fashion.
5. Matthew Cheney appreciates Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Flint Anchor (1954) and makes a really good case that I would, too.
spatch after his matinée as planned, but I ran into some great links:1. I will need to reconfigure all my metaphors if it turns out that osteocalcin rather than adrenaline drives the fight-or-flight response, but I love the image of the skeleton necessarily involved in the process of freaking out, like one of those pre-Code cartoons where your bones jump out of your skin in shock.
2. Leo Varadkar's double-speaking allusion to Athene was worthy of Odysseus himself. (Ireland is having a great week for language. See also the news that leprechauns might be Roman.)
3. Courtesy of C. S. E. Cooney: Alba Cid, "An Apocryphal History of the Discovery of Migration, or The Sacrifice of the Pfeilstörchen."
4. I had no idea a Yiddish socialist parody of "Give My Regards to Broadway" had ever existed, and yet: Jane Peppler & Randy Kloko, "Rayst arop di shleser." Once again, it's not like robber barons have gone out of fashion.
5. Matthew Cheney appreciates Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Flint Anchor (1954) and makes a really good case that I would, too.
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That was my introduction to Warner: I read "The Duke of Orkney's Leonardo" in Terri Windling's Elsewhere Vol. III (1984) and went immediately looking for the rest of the stories like it. I loved them. It took me years to read anything else of hers. I've still only gotten around to Lolly Willowes and Mr Fortune's Maggot, although
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And why not Yiddish than any other language!
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Thank you! I slept into the afternoon, at least, and do not seem to have been wiped out entirely by meeting
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Are you going to?
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Whoa.
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"Not in Loseby, Mr. Thomas, not in Loseby. Nor in any sea-going place, that I've a-heard of. It's the way we live, and always have been, whatever it may be inland. I can't say for inland. I never went there, and wouldn't want to particular. But in Loseby we go man with man and man with woman, and nobody think the worse."
Yes, I think you would.
I found Warner back in college; was bemused by her characters, but loved her voice. Then she started writing the elfin stories...
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I read a similar article in New Scientist, and my thought was this exactly... Do I change it all in my current novel? Or will I just confuse everybody? :D
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It seems to have been reprinted at least once by Virago, which gives me hope of a copy.
I found Warner back in college; was bemused by her characters, but loved her voice. Then she started writing the elfin stories...
I started with those: see above. It was accidental but I think fortunate.
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The Elfin stories are a brilliant way in.
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