Your face it shines in the flicker of the film

[sovay]

Tonight in news of the future, my husband is using a pocket supercomputer teleconferencing application in order to read a seventeenth-century comedy with other similarly immured actors. I am delighted.

In news of the present, I continue to work from home and nobody continues to work from the Somerville Theatre, which means it's a good thing our state has decided to be reasonable about unemployment. So far we seem to have our health. Otherwise we are doing about as well as can be expected from a couple of introverts in a small apartment who are worried about family and friends and incandescently angered by the majority of the news. Last week feels two or three weeks ago. At least when it's not raining I can still take long walks. I watched a couple of movies I should write about. My pattern of gravitating toward noir in times of stress appears to be holding true.

I really like this cover art concept for The Magician's Nephew (1955). I love the dead red light of Charn.

Comments

[nineweaving]

Oooh. Which comedy?

Nine

[sovay]

Which comedy?

The Roaring Girl! I don't know if anyone's recording it. Maybe when the dust clears it'll get staged.

[nineweaving]

Damn. I want to see/hear that!

Nine

[sovay]

I want to see/hear that!

I want a staging! spatch is doubling Sir Beauteous Ganymede, Gull, Greenwit, and both Tiltyards; he did a great plaintive "What's left then for the pickle herring?"

[nineweaving]

A lot of us would love to see that staged!

Nine

[sovay]

A lot of us would love to see that staged!

On Facebook, the director is talking about a production, once the dust clears and theaters can be opened again. Fingers crossed.

WHO ORDERED THE GREAT PLAGUE OF LONDON, I ASK YOU.

[alexxkay]

Moll Cutpurse!

[sovay]

Moll Cutpurse!

The same!

[alexxkay]

Many many moons ago, I had a minor research specialty in Elizabethan True Crime, which is how I came to know her :-)

[gwynnega]

Yay technology! I'm glad Massachusetts is doing the right thing about unemployment and that you both have your health. I'm upset that I'm no longer supposed to visit my mom (though I know it's the safest option right now) and that, due to the stay-at-home order, my massage therapist can't treat me for the time being (though again, it's probably safer that way).

I always enjoy your writings about noir!

[sovay]

Yay technology!

I have such an aversion to video chat and even I am thinking about using it to communicate, because I think it's important to talk to people.

(I am an introvert: I recharge from time spent alone. That does not mean that I rejoice in isolation. Or other people's isolation! I know people who are a lot less constitutionally set up for this than I am.)

I'm glad Massachusetts is doing the right thing about unemployment

I mean, we still have to make it through the filing process. But at least Massachusetts has recognized that just about everybody in the state needs to!

and that you both have your health. I'm upset that I'm no longer supposed to visit my mom (though I know it's the safest option right now) and that, due to the stay-at-home order, my massage therapist can't treat me for the time being (though again, it's probably safer that way).

One of my PT places closed at the start of the week and the other closed yesterday, which is terrible timing for my pain levels but sensible for everyone's health. Much, much sympathy on not being able to visit your mother. I am in the same position with my parents, who have been (sometimes weirdly) indestructible their entire lives but are especially at risk now because of their age and their respective underlying health issues, and I hate it.

I always enjoy your writings about noir!

I am going to see what I can do! The last couple of days have sort of been eaten by work.

[selidor]

I wonder if the Deplorable Word sent Charn's sun red giant as well, or if it was already that way. The light is what makes that cover.

[asakiyume]

I think Lewis says that it did make it that way.

[sovay]

I think Lewis says that it did make it that way.

No, Jadis says specifically that their sun has been huge and red and cold for hundreds of thousands of years: hearing that the sun is different where Digory and Polly come from makes her hungry for their "younger world . . . It is cold here at the end of all the ages."

[asakiyume]

Oh! Wow, thank you--goes to show you how memory changes things.

[sovay]

Wow, thank you--goes to show you how memory changes things.

All of the deep time parts of those books really stuck with me.

[asakiyume]

Now that you quote it, I *do* remember--but until you did, I had it in my head that she said the exact opposite. But now I remember. I remember the part about the hunger in her voice when she talked about our world being a young one (but I remembered that before, too, even though I was wrongly remembering about their old sun).

[sovay]

The light is what makes that cover.

It really does.

[thisbluespirit]

The cover concept art is great!

I'm glad to hear you're reasonably okay at the moment anyway. I am in the odd position of my life being virtually unchanged while society around me is behaving extremely weirdly. And buying up the whole supermarket while they're at it...

[sovay]

The cover concept art is great!

I would buy an edition with that cover. And I'd love to see what the artist did with the other books!

I'm glad to hear you're reasonably okay at the moment anyway. I am in the odd position of my life being virtually unchanged while society around me is behaving extremely weirdly.

Thank you. I can see that being very strange. May your life stay virtually unchanged, and safe!

[asakiyume]

That is some excellent cover art.

((safe hugs for both of you.))

[sovay]

That is some excellent cover art.

It's really as eerie as dying Charn should be. I'm just not sure I've ever seen that in an illustration before.

((safe hugs for both of you.))

You, too.

*hugs*