sovay: (Rotwang)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2022-06-05 06:32 pm

Have a replay, pictures all night

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 [personal profile] 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.