Have a replay, pictures all night

[sovay]

Rabbit belated rabbit! I aten't dead. I do not really believe that time has started again, but with my phone being semi-defunct and not yet replaced, I had to get my watch fixed. It is still metaphysically 1:39. Have some links.

1. Courtesy of selkie: "There's this perception that the Romans didn't go very far in Wales, but actually they were all over Wales." Where's Rosemary Sutcliff when you need her? Entertainingly, the Preseli Hills are folk-etymologically where my father's family is claimed to be from.

2. Sarah Perry wrote so beautifully about the experience of having a novel adapted for television that I was intrigued enough to read the review of the novel by M. John Harrison, the combined result being that in compensation for the last rough few days, I have bought myself a copy of The Essex Serpent (2016). So far I like the language and it gives good salt marsh.

3. Ignore the illustration which the author did not choose, but I recommend R.B. Lemberg's "Poetry of War," on translating Ukrainian war poems.

The Criterion Channel is offering a series of Ulrike Ottinger, which I thought I would never see outside of the HFA. I really approve. I have been wanting to see Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press (Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse, 1984) for thirteen years.

Comments

[thistleingrey]

1. Of course Edward Lhwyd was right (and not because of his name). Keeper at the Ashmolean is why we credit his findings, but he also walked all over, exploring. I half remembered his name because he worked on Eliseg. Anyway, glad to know of this road; it always seemed weird to me that the Romans would've built mostly where the English went later.

[sovay]

Anyway, glad to know of this road; it always seemed weird to me that the Romans would've built mostly where the English went later.

I didn't know of Edward Lhwyd until this article, but I'm glad he was right!

[thistleingrey]

Sorry--my unnecessary vehemence is partly from all the other articles that don't credit earlier writers, where we know of them.

[sovay]

Sorry--my unnecessary vehemence is partly from all the other articles that don't credit earlier writers, where we know of them.

Understood!

[troisoiseaux]

I have bought myself a copy of The Essex Serpent (2016)

Ooh, I read that one a few years ago! From what I remember of it, I think you will like it.

[sovay]

Ooh, I read that one a few years ago! From what I remember of it, I think you will like it.

Awesome!

[gwynnega]

I have never seen anything by Ulrike Ottinger! (I don't have the Criterion Channel, though I should probably change that.)

[sovay]

I have never seen anything by Ulrike Ottinger!

I have so far seen exactly two things by Ulrike Ottinger, but they were both amazing. Johanna D'Arc of Mongolia (1989) is the one I have seen multiple times and I suspect it makes a good introduction.

[cmcmck]

That perception is dead wrong considering where we live and what's just over the border from here near Wrecsam/Wrexham

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54919775