You never will be simplified and never will be synchronized

[sovay]

We saw exactly three meteors for forty-five minutes of freezing our asses off under the autumn stars, but the constellations glittered sharply while we were out and the clouds moved in almost as soon as we got home, whereupon we declared this year's Leonid expedition a success and I discovered that Paula Guran had said nice things about "Tea with the Earl of Twilight" in the October issue of Locus:

Sonya Taaffe's "Tea with the Earl of Twilight" is a haunting ghost story but also enough of a paean to and description of the environs, architecture, and waterways of Cambridge and Boston MA to serve in (an extremely poetic and slightly weird) tourist brochure . . . Sid is haunted by her ghost, not so much in any traditional sense but at least partially by the question: "When the dams failed at last and the tide rolled up the Charles, would he still be there on his dock of weeds and heavy metals, his cigarette glowing under the dusk-blue water like a phantom light?" This is a fine modern eerie tale.

I can live with being an extremely poetic and slightly weird tourist brochure, actually. spatch got a suitable picture of me on a streetlit corner.

Comments

[gwynnega]

Congratulations on the terrific review! That is a great photo.

[spatch]

You know, I didn't see it as we were out there, but you are standing at the craziest brick demarcation line. This is why I like taking pictures of you; you just happen and the scene just happens around you and it's always very good.

[nineweaving]

So glad you saw Leonids!

That's a fabulous review (as befits the story), and that photo of you looks like Paris 1968.

Nine

[cyphomandra]

The lightning in that picture is fantastic!! (you also look very nice :D )

[cmcmck]

This pic is one for the cover of your collected poems!

Very Thom Gunn.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, that's great! The photo is also. ♥

[selkie]

The photographer has mentioned, but you look exactly as if you stepped out of one moment somewhere else and into the second the picture was taken by temporal mistake.
It’s really cool.
Also kudos on the very nice modern review from
someone who knows her business!

[asakiyume]

I think "an extremely poetic and slightly weird tourist brochure" is a very apt and very appealing recommendation of that lovely story. I know that your writing on adventures by waterways and behind buildings and by the coast always makes me want to trace your path.

You look like your character in that photo. [ETA: WHICH IS A GOOD THING]

[sartorias]

If light could have fallen on your face, that would make a perfect author photo.

[oracne]

Leonids!