Would you turn me away if the walls were all I could see in your face?

[sovay]

I do somewhat resent that the first time I remember my dreams in weeks, they are nightmares about attending a convention, having to fight off a serial killer, and then contracting some kind of life-threatening alien infection, which is definitely way too high a ratio of pulp to anxiety if you ask me.

On the other hand, I spent much of the afternoon being interviewed by a grad student for her master's thesis in folklore: she is studying the music of Jewish partisans in WWII and the creation of liminal spaces through song and I felt like a one hundred and ten percent ringer and I had a wonderful time.

The recording I made for Jeannelle M. Ferreira can now be found with author's notes on her blog: "October Ghosts and Minor Resurrections: An Audio Excerpt."

The world continues fractured and frightening, but people build fires, and within the circle of the light, even if only for a little while, things may be all right.

Comments

[asakiyume]

I love that you're a source. You're a source! Transmission of knowledge and culture FOR THE WIN.

And we'll always build fires. (And I love that retelling and recording so much!)

[selkie]

SOME. DAY. I will collaborate with [OH PRETEND I DID HTML PLEASE] Sovay on the queerest most doikeyt-laden Yiddish-enriched book there EVER WAS, and that will be my equivalent of lighting the fire and knowing the place in the forest.
(Kiddo asked, because of the recording/retelling, when I was going to write a book with Aunt Sovay. Cue Awkward Askhenazi Brows as I realized neither adult in the equation really skims lower than PG-13, whether for bog bodies, adult interactions, or adult interactions with bog bodies. Which is not to say we limit Kiddo's books, but they are 10.5.)
*Edit for doikeyt: the concept of "hereness," presence uniquely in a moment.
Also for the fact that I would like to do this even though some people do not speak sensible Litvish and use strange slippery consonances and well, we will have to bring an outside editor on for transliterated orthography.

[sovay]

SOME. DAY. I will collaborate with [OH PRETEND I DID HTML PLEASE] Sovay on the queerest most doikeyt-laden Yiddish-enriched book there EVER WAS, and that will be my equivalent of lighting the fire and knowing the place in the forest.

*hugs*

(Kiddo asked, because of the recording/retelling, when I was going to write a book with Aunt Sovay. Cue Awkward Askhenazi Brows as I realized neither adult in the equation really skims lower than PG-13, whether for bog bodies, adult interactions, or adult interactions with bog bodies. Which is not to say we limit Kiddo's books, but they are 10.5.)

So the good news is, it'll take us at least a couple of years to finish the thing. And then we can embarrass your child!

Also for the fact that I would like to do this even though some people do not speak sensible Litvish and use strange slippery consonances and well, we will have to bring an outside editor on for transliterated orthography.

PRESTIGE DIALECTS ARE BUNK.

[selkie]

Great, give me a second to finish this other thing! We should be alive in 2025, af tselokhes!

*hugs*

....Galitsianer.

[asakiyume]

I need to dust off my time turner so I can respond to your comment earlier than I am doing, BUT:

I love this idea.

[selkie]

Me, too! Between our various artistic tendencies I do think it would be, essentially, the queer Prufrock; there would be story under the poetry.... somewhere. (Some people in the equation are actually very good at "a plot," but I am "folks talking in rooms" all the way down.)

Maybe that'll be the plan in 2021, absent needing to run a printing press for a resistance movemnt.

[sovay]

I love that you're a source. You're a source! Transmission of knowledge and culture FOR THE WIN.

Thank you! It makes me feel like part of a tradition, which is important: the stories shouldn't stop with me.

(And I love that retelling and recording so much!)

I am so glad!