?פֿאַר װאָס זאָל איך אײַך געבן דירה-געלט אַז די קיך איז צעבראָכן

[sovay]

The weekend continued sleepless af with a double whammy of financial stress and I got nothing done that I had wanted, but spatch took a picture of me when I got back in from my walk that I liked, which these days is vanishing. I am not confident a normal amount of summer actually happened.

Comments

[gullyfoyle]

It is a nice picture. I'm sorry about the sleep problems; I understand how frustrating they can be. Last night was one of those nights where I slept, for hours...in what felt like dozens of fifteen minute intervals separated by minutes of axial rotation and overheating.

Tonight I started reading a story that reminded me of you and your story "As the Tide Came Flowing In" -- which I enjoyed a few weeks ago in the Bodily Autonomy anthology -- since this story, at least the beginning of it, as I'm only a few pages in, involves the ocean, a lighthouse, and a ghost visiting his widow and child. I just now looked it up and discovered that it won the 2007 World Fantasy Award for short fiction: "Journey into the Kingdom" by M. Rickert.

[sovay]

It is a nice picture. I'm sorry about the sleep problems; I understand how frustrating they can be. Last night was one of those nights where I slept, for hours...in what felt like dozens of fifteen minute intervals separated by minutes of axial rotation and overheating.

Blech. Condolences. (Thank you.)

Tonight I started reading a story that reminded me of you and your story "As the Tide Came Flowing In" -- which I enjoyed a few weeks ago in the Bodily Autonomy anthology -- since this story, at least the beginning of it, as I'm only a few pages in, involves the ocean, a lighthouse, and a ghost visiting his widow and child. I just now looked it up and discovered that it won the 2007 World Fantasy Award for short fiction: "Journey into the Kingdom" by M. Rickert.

I don't know it! I see it's on Reactor. I will check it out. I shared a ToC of reprints with her "Leda."

[gullyfoyle]

I don't know it! I see it's on Reactor. I will check it out. I shared a ToC of reprints with her "Leda."

Did you read it? I just finished it, and it has such a sudden and extreme tonal shift at the end that I'm not sure that I would have recommended it if I'd read the whole thing as of Sept. 1. I'm not saying Rickert's story is bad, far from it, but it ended up in a place far, far from where it was when I recommended it. I'm still processing my reaction to the entire story, but here's an apology if you would like one.

[sovay]

Did you read it? I just finished it, and it has such a sudden and extreme tonal shift at the end that I'm not sure that I would have recommended it if I'd read the whole thing as of Sept. 1.

I actually had not gotten around to it and would not require an apology even if I had hated it, but that's some takeback. May I ask what happened?

[gullyfoyle]

The story uses multiple devices to explore perception: metatexts, dreams, unreliable narrators, stories within stories, fairy tale-ism vs detailed reality -- things like that. So maybe I shouldn't have been so surprised with the story gradually shifted from apparent ghost story to possible romance and then very abruptly to something that could have come out of "The Silence of the Lambs" or "Psycho." So of course one comes away wondering what *really* happened. Is this a supernatural ghost story, or are the main characters delusional and possibly psychotic? (Shades (tee hee) of "The Turn of the Screw," of course.) That kind of story certainly can certainly appeal, but a lot of that appeal is often in the slow build, the detailed but often reluctant explorations of the characters into what may actually be happening. But here the story (or stories) shift and mutate, and finally that happens so suddenly and extremely and so close to the end of the story that the effect was jarring. There is a lot going on with the storytelling here, and I'm not sure the author completely succeeded in fitting the story into the storytelling. Again, it's well worth reading, but it's only the first section of it that reminds of "As the Tide Came Flowing In." The rest is something different, which I suspect you'll like. Someone liked it, since it won the WFA and was selected for multiple Year's Best anthologies. I'm not sure I would have put it in my own Year's Best (had I one), but definitely an honorable mention.

[selkie]

Hey, you've still got somebody's tarot card in your cabinet of Maybe Not On Full Moons Maybe Never. [Edit: I looked again and it's a very cool print I can't entirely see, but tarot cards don't just up sticks and wander... I think.]

It really is a striking picture. I remain glad you have someone who sees you so truly.
*hugs*

....it isn't the stove again, is it?!

[sovay]

Hey, you've still got somebody's tarot card in your cabinet of Maybe Not On Full Moons Maybe Never. [Edit: I looked again and it's a very cool print I can't entirely see, but tarot cards don't just up sticks and wander... I think.]

The Tarot card is on the other side of the green onion bottle!

It really is a striking picture. I remain glad you have someone who sees you so truly.

*hugs*

....it isn't the stove again, is it?!

Pfui pfui pfui it is not the stove, it's more the general situation. The toaster oven ceased to toast last month, but we brought that one with us.

[selkie]

The Tarot card is on the other side of the green onion bottle!

I have to say, after all this time, if it goes walkies under its own steam, please you should let it go! N is pretty convinced the Marseille deck is just on eBay.

If it's the same toaster oven someone got for reaching queer adulthood, per the terms of the queer agenda and if one didn't opt for the blender, it had good innings.

[sovay]

I have to say, after all this time, if it goes walkies under its own steam, please you should let it go!

Not to worry. It stays where I put it. It's important to me.

If it's the same toaster oven someone got for reaching queer adulthood, per the terms of the queer agenda and if one didn't opt for the blender, it had good innings.

It was a dreadnought! Full military honors.

[gwynnega]

That's a wonderful photo. I am sorry about the lack of sleep and the financial stress. This evening I watched Joseph Losey's King and Country, which I knew nothing about and which knocked my socks off. Have you seen it? It seems relevant to your interests.

[sovay]

That's a wonderful photo. I am sorry about the lack of sleep and the financial stress.

Thank you!

This evening I watched Joseph Losey's King and Country, which I knew nothing about and which knocked my socks off. Have you seen it? It seems relevant to your interests.

Yes! I watched it off Kanopy pre-pandemic. I never wrote about it and had much the same experience as you.

[sabotabby]

It feels like the coldest summer in a long time, seriously. We had blazing hot days but it now feels like proper autumn in a way that I haven't experienced since I was a teenager.

[sovay]

It feels like the coldest summer in a long time, seriously. We had blazing hot days but it now feels like proper autumn in a way that I haven't experienced since I was a teenager.

The light clarified here just a few days ago in the way that feels more like autumn than any temperature of the air. I'm still not sure about the speed of July and August.

[troisoiseaux]

I am not confident a normal amount of summer actually happened.

This summer - this year in general, really - has been going by in turbo mode.

[sovay]

This summer - this year in general, really - has been going by in turbo mode.

I am not reconciled to it! I would like my lost weeks back!

[thisbluespirit]

It is a good photo! <3

I am so sorry about the rest. I wish you at least some improvement asap. *hugs*

(I spoke to Youngest Nephew today, as it is his birthday. He got a microscope and a shark tooth fossil and was enjoying himself hugely looking at the fossil under the microscope, so the future of natural science is in good hands. When he's finished building lego giraffes and flamingos, of course. XD)

[sovay]

It is a good photo!

Thank you!

I am so sorry about the rest. I wish you at least some improvement asap.

I have spent my Labor Day doing absolutely nothing, so I'm hoping!

*hugs*

(I spoke to Youngest Nephew today, as it is his birthday. He got a microscope and a shark tooth fossil and was enjoying himself hugely looking at the fossil under the microscope, so the future of natural science is in good hands. When he's finished building lego giraffes and flamingos, of course. XD)

(I am delighted to hear all aspects of this news.)

[asakiyume]

I am not confident a normal amount of summer happened either! But here we are.

It's a beautiful photo, all the more so given that it's taken in the face of health, sleep, and financial stress.

[sovay]

I am not confident a normal amount of summer happened either! But here we are.

It's not as though I don't like autumn, it just seems to have pulled up at ninety miles an hour.

It's a beautiful photo, all the more so given that it's taken in the face of health, sleep, and financial stress.

Thank you!

[aurumcalendula]

That's a lovely photo!

I hope your sleeplessness and financial stress improves soon. *hugs*

[sovay]

That's a lovely photo!

Thank you!

I hope your sleeplessness and financial stress improves soon.

Appreciated. I suspect they are popular conditions at the moment, but nothing needed to be this hard.

[davidgillon]

That is a particularly good picture of you!

I am not confident a normal amount of summer actually happened.

Today we had bright sunlight alternating with hammering rain, which strikes me as a more typical summers day than almost any we had in August.

[sovay]

That is a particularly good picture of you!

Thank you!

Today we had bright sunlight alternating with hammering rain, which strikes me as a more typical summers day than almost any we had in August.

Absolutely. We had that heat dome in June, which does not a summer make.

[umadoshi]

I am not confident a normal amount of summer actually happened.

It really doesn't seem possible!

[sovay]

It really doesn't seem possible!

Thank you for backing up my often optional sense of linear time!

[theseatheseatheopensea]

I'm sorry about the lack of sleep and the financial stress, it's all really unnecessary, isn't it? On a happier note, I like your photo (and your cabinet of curiosities)!

[sovay]

I'm sorry about the lack of sleep and the financial stress, it's all really unnecessary, isn't it? On a happier note, I like your photo (and your cabinet of curiosities)!

Thank you! It is so unnecessary. We should just get to hang out and write stuff.

[foxmoth]

:support support:

[sovay]

:support support:

Appreciated! Likewise!

*hugs*