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I woke up from an actual amount of sleep and it was as dark as evening and then there was a hailstorm. So much for going for a walk. On the other hand it looked fantastically foreboding, bouncing among the lightning-studded downpour. Have some links.
1. From the latest issue of Chytomo: "Keeping your friends in your thoughts and prayers: the newest Ukrainian war poems."
2. The Northman (2022) continues to sound amazing and I continue to hope there will be a safe way for me to see it: "Robert Eggers's Historical Visions Go Mainstream."
3. My mother really likes her sweatshirt for Sophie Hatter's Finest Hats in Market Chipping (Since 1986).
My father made a point of telling me about Operation Mincemeat (2022), which has reached the stage of streaming a trailer on Netflix. I have started receiving absurdist spam e-mail again: "How often hautbois, by the way the airman . . ." is my favorite. I remain extremely tired.
1. From the latest issue of Chytomo: "Keeping your friends in your thoughts and prayers: the newest Ukrainian war poems."
2. The Northman (2022) continues to sound amazing and I continue to hope there will be a safe way for me to see it: "Robert Eggers's Historical Visions Go Mainstream."
3. My mother really likes her sweatshirt for Sophie Hatter's Finest Hats in Market Chipping (Since 1986).
My father made a point of telling me about Operation Mincemeat (2022), which has reached the stage of streaming a trailer on Netflix. I have started receiving absurdist spam e-mail again: "How often hautbois, by the way the airman . . ." is my favorite. I remain extremely tired.
Operation Mincemeat
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Never_Was
Maybe we'll try this one.
My memory is that the basic concept was used in an episode of the mid-1990s TV show Space: Above and Beyond, but looking through the episode blurbs on Wikipedia, I can't confirm that.
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Same! I've been meaning to for years. Clifton Webb of all people as Ewen Montagu. I really should see it before the new version.
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It was -- I remember watching that episode. It was one of my favorites.
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That's so cool!
(I have never seen Space: Above and Beyond.)
S:AAB
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And then it was gone and the sun came out. Amazing.
I haven't read the Chytomo poems yet, but even just looking at the faces of all the poets on the website is moving.
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*hugs*
And then it was gone and the sun came out. Amazing.
I went for a walk in the sun. It clouded over and rained on me briefly, but it has been very springlike.
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I saw the first one: agreed. Is there a more recent one?
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Having grown up in New Hampshire, I'm a bit nonplussed by the idea of Lee and Epping being an exotic, haunted land, but then playing 'enchanted forest' seems perfectly normal to me, so what do I know?
What particularly interests me is that Sjón is a co-writer. His From the Mouth of the Whale, which I think must be the seventeenth-century witchcraft novel that's mentioned, is indeed magical. I'm still trying to work up the courage to read it in Icelandic.
Edit: And digging into Wikipedia I've just realized that Aurvandill is the same name as Tolkien's Earendil. Huh. I didn't know anything about the Hamlet inspiration either.
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It got on my radar last summer not just because it was the next feature from Robert Eggers, but because it looked from its cast list like a retelling of the legend of Amleth—as opposed to Hamlet—which was not something I had ever seen tried before. And that really seems to be what it is, so I still have no idea what it will look like and really want to find out. Anything that actually feels like a Norse saga rather than all the pop-culturally received versions is of interest to me.
What particularly interests me is that Sjón is a co-writer. His From the Mouth of the Whale, which I think must be the seventeenth-century witchcraft novel that's mentioned, is indeed magical. I'm still trying to work up the courage to read it in Icelandic.
I can't read Icelandic in any meaningful fashion, but if you recommend an English translation, I am certainly at home to seventeenth-century witch novels. I am more familiar with his lyrics and poetry.
(Have you seen The Juniper Tree (1990)? Speaking of witch stories, and highly recommended.)
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Makes sense! I don't know if you've encountered Útlaginn? I actually haven't seen it so I can't speak for the acting or cinematography, but it's one of the most famous Icelandic film adaptations of a saga. They showed it during my Icelandic course in the Westfjords, where it's set, but I must have had something better to do that evening. Like going to a bar, or possibly even my homework. Oh well.
I can't read Icelandic in any meaningful fashion, but if you recommend an English translation, I am certainly at home to seventeenth-century witch novels.
Oh sorry, I should have said! It's From the Mouth of the Whale - I think there's only one translation. Here's a Guardian review that captures the mood of the thing. I think you might well like it very much.
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No, but I'll look for it! Thank you for the heads-up.
Here's a Guardian review that captures the mood of the thing. I think you might well like it very much.
It sounds amazing.
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We got one for my brother's godmother, too!
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I just need it to happen more often!
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Just wanted that you and your mom have started a trend— I was looking for a birthday present for a friend when I saw this post and ended up ordering the tee shirt version immediately; I gave it to my friend this morning and just now she texted asking where I'd gotten it, because one of her friends wants one, too!
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I'm delighted! Thank you for letting me know.