On the floor of the big top right next to the overwhelming sense of impending doom
As of this afternoon with the pulmonologist, it looks like I have asthma, common or garden, either inherited or triggered by three months of lung infection with allergies involved somehow. It may resolve, it may be lifelong, I will have no idea until it has been treated for some time. Honestly, I had been so worried about yet another unidentifiable illness or further permanent damage that being handed a heavy-duty inhaler and instructions to report back in three weeks comes as a relief. Asthma is not thrilling, but it is at least well understood. Also the results of my pulmonary function test—while diagnostic—were just as hilarious as I expected, i.e., it says on paper that my lung capacity is 114%.
I returned home to discover that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
selkie had sent me one of the four remaining novels by Theodore Sturgeon I have not yet read: the novelization of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961). I have no idea whether it is any good and I look forward to finding out. It was meaningless to me at the time, but I will always regret not impulse-buying I, Libertine (1956) from the pulp racks of Upper Story Books that one time in college I saw it.
Courtesy ofmoon_custafer: the jiu-jitsu lesson from Stand-In (1937). In the interests of pedantry, Leslie Howard is not actually playing the himbo of the century but an enormous nerd with the people skills of a rock, but in this situation it comes to the same thing.
spatch captured this most elusive expression of Autolycus' in the wild: the blerp.
I returned home to discover that
selkie had sent me one of the four remaining novels by Theodore Sturgeon I have not yet read: the novelization of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961). I have no idea whether it is any good and I look forward to finding out. It was meaningless to me at the time, but I will always regret not impulse-buying I, Libertine (1956) from the pulp racks of Upper Story Books that one time in college I saw it.Courtesy of
moon_custafer: the jiu-jitsu lesson from Stand-In (1937). In the interests of pedantry, Leslie Howard is not actually playing the himbo of the century but an enormous nerd with the people skills of a rock, but in this situation it comes to the same thing.spatch captured this most elusive expression of Autolycus' in the wild: the blerp.
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I should read more Sturgeon. I like how he writes about love.
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That hath such kitten around it!
I should read more Sturgeon. I like how he writes about love.
He was one of my formative writers in high school. What have you read of his so far?
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I just didn't want to hit you with recommendations you'd already read! His novels The Dreaming Jewels (1950), Venus Plus X (1960), and Some of Your Blood (1961) were all very important to me. I read any of his short stories I could get my hands on, but E Pluribus Unicorn (1953)—which may be the one you have—and A Touch of Strange (1958) are the collections I remember best. The seminal Star Trek I always associate him with is "Amok Time," which is for damn sure about love. And he does not seem to have been a creep as a person, which is important, too.
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HE WROTE AMOK TIME OMG THAT'S RIGHT
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