The darkness and those long days

[sovay]

I aten't dead, but I have spent this weekend in too much pain to do anything including sleep. As a sort of unwelcome garnish, I came down with what a visit to urgent care determined to be unspecified viral crud and have been running a fever for the last three nights. I miss my brain. I haven't even been able to watch movies, which I had been looking forward to doing.

I can't remember if I ever noticed before that this passage in Le Guin's "April in Paris" (1962)—

It was a fine face, though pale and lean: intelligent, alert, vivid. Barry was reminded of the face of a famous atomic physicist, seen in newspaper pictures up until 1953.

—is an Oppenheimer reference: a face the author had seen not just in newspapers, but as a visitor to the house when she was a child. At this point where I am with Nolan's movie is just hoping it doesn't suck.

Comments

[mrissa]

I'm sorry it's such a cruddy week.

Also, I fully expect to hate the Oppenheimer movie and will be pleasantly surprised if I don't, but I expect to hate it in a detailed and specific way that is enjoyable to discuss at least, and possibly I will like it in that same way. So I'm still excited.

[sovay]

I'm sorry it's such a cruddy week.

Thank you. I slept last night for the first time in five days, which I feel can only be an improvement even if tomorrow I have to get up very early.

Also, I fully expect to hate the Oppenheimer movie and will be pleasantly surprised if I don't, but I expect to hate it in a detailed and specific way that is enjoyable to discuss at least, and possibly I will like it in that same way. So I'm still excited.

Fair enough! I just want movies about scientists I care about that I don't have to hate.