The only break they take is to the bone

[sovay]

I dreamed of the dead after hours in a T station, like the lost refugees of Troy who can't be embraced in the underworld, only they were film, wavering in three colorless dimensions while the projector's beam flickered from the fluorescents overhead. I reached under the brim of one's hat to touch his cheek and his face turned to me even as my fingers went through his insubstantial silver salts. Unlike the living man who had pursued me down the night street screaming obscenities because I wouldn't talk with him, he did not frighten me.

The mail brought magnets from minoanmiss and the fruits of the coupon-assisted recent half-price Criterion sale, including spatch's birthday present to me of George Cukor's Holiday (1938) and my unbirthday present to him of Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers.

Today is full of doctors' appointments for everyone. I am wearing my garum T-shirt.

Comments

[theseatheseatheopensea]

Train stations are full of ghosts, I always think it must be because of their liminality.

Good luck with the appointments, I hope they are helpful! <3

[sovay]

Train stations are full of ghosts, I always think it must be because of their liminality.

That sounds right to me. I miss them so much. I used to travel regularly by train.

Good luck with the appointments, I hope they are helpful!

Thank you!

[gwynnega]

Yay Holiday (1938)! (I hope Criterion's 1930 version of the film is in better shape than the copy I've seen, though it's not nearly as good a film as the 1938 one.) I was eyeing that Sideshow Shockers collection when I made my Criterion sale picks the other day.

[sovay]

(I hope Criterion's 1930 version of the film is in better shape than the copy I've seen, though it's not nearly as good a film as the 1938 one.)

I've never seen the 1930 version! I'll let you know.

I was eyeing that Sideshow Shockers collection when I made my Criterion sale picks the other day.

What did you opt for?

[gwynnega]

I got Night of the Hunter and Cat People (which includes Scorsese's Lewton documentary).

[sovay]

and Cat People (which includes Scorsese's Lewton documentary).

Nice! I would love to hear what that's like.

[gwynnega]

TCM shows it from time to time. It's wonderful.

[thisbluespirit]

Today is full of doctors' appointments for everyone. I am wearing my garum T-shirt.

Sounds like a fair response! I hope they went well and usefully, or at least, for the moment, went. ♥

(I also dreamt about being on a train station this week, but much less beautifully and eerily, or seasonally appropriately: I drank some water out of a bottle I'd brought with me while I was waiting on the platform and some uniformed official came up and insisted on charging me £12.50 for it and I was outraged. I actually hit him and threw things at him in the dream, which was weird. I've never attacked anyone in a dream before (or in real life, except my middle sister when we were small), but apparently if you try to charge me £12.50 because I dared to bring my own water bottle, that's what happens.)

[sovay]

Sounds like a fair response! I hope they went well and usefully, or at least, for the moment, went.

Thank you! They were useful, despite some chaos in making one of them happen.

but apparently if you try to charge me £12.50 because I dared to bring my own water bottle, that's what happens.

It is a lot to ask for your own water.

[minoanmiss]

What a gorgeously described dream!

I'm glad the magnets made it safely to you :)

PS Garum shirt woot woot

[sovay]

What a gorgeously described dream!

Thank you!

I'm glad the magnets made it safely to you

We put up Bast and the butterfly next to our magnet from Black Cat Rescue.

PS Garum shirt woot woot

At all opportunities, wear the garum shirt!

[asakiyume]

I wonder what the film refugees were doing in the T ... too bad we can't inquire backstories of dreams.

Hope yesterday's appointments went well (or at the very least, not badly).

[sovay]

I wonder what the film refugees were doing in the T ... too bad we can't inquire backstories of dreams.

They might have needed blood to answer. I can't remember any of them making—even the pages of their newspapers—any sound.

Hope yesterday's appointments went well (or at the very least, not badly).

Thank you! I don't think they went badly.

[a_reasonable_man]

I hope these beautiful ghosts, riding forever 'neith the streets of Boston, find their way into a poem or story.

[sovay]

I hope these beautiful ghosts, riding forever 'neith the streets of Boston, find their way into a poem or story.

Thank you.