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Today I have slept less than three hours for the second day in a row and the afternoon just clouded over. Have a couple of links.
1. I can't tell if the BLO's Daughter of the Regiment will be queer enough for its invocation of Deborah Sampson, but then I was distracted by discovering Alex Myers. I blame it on plague that I missed the queer Arthuriana of The Story of Silence (2020).
2. I had an excuse to link Bradley Kincaid's "The Two Sisters" (1928), the oldest version of the ballad I have heard recorded as opposed to seen written down. I used to sing its bleaker descendant by Roger Wilson. Tom Waits does a pretty straight one.
3. Hen Ogledd's "The Loch Ness Monster's Song" (2020) is a setting of Edwin Morgan. It may be the most zaum thing I have encountered since Victory Over the Sun (1913).
For the first time in this apartment, there was an Interloper Cat. Collared and silver-tagged, on the doorless back porch, a substantial ginger and white presence had seated itself in one of the windows with its evident object of a robin in the other. It stared directly through the back door. Hestia was wild. The bird was motionless. I did not let her out and the next time I looked, both bird and interloper had gone.
1. I can't tell if the BLO's Daughter of the Regiment will be queer enough for its invocation of Deborah Sampson, but then I was distracted by discovering Alex Myers. I blame it on plague that I missed the queer Arthuriana of The Story of Silence (2020).
2. I had an excuse to link Bradley Kincaid's "The Two Sisters" (1928), the oldest version of the ballad I have heard recorded as opposed to seen written down. I used to sing its bleaker descendant by Roger Wilson. Tom Waits does a pretty straight one.
3. Hen Ogledd's "The Loch Ness Monster's Song" (2020) is a setting of Edwin Morgan. It may be the most zaum thing I have encountered since Victory Over the Sun (1913).
For the first time in this apartment, there was an Interloper Cat. Collared and silver-tagged, on the doorless back porch, a substantial ginger and white presence had seated itself in one of the windows with its evident object of a robin in the other. It stared directly through the back door. Hestia was wild. The bird was motionless. I did not let her out and the next time I looked, both bird and interloper had gone.
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Interesting how quick the tempo is in Bradley Kincaid's version of "The Two Sisters." I like it! (I like all three versions, and other versions as well.)
What does zaum mean? (And in what language?)
I did not let her out and the next time I looked, both bird and interloper had gone. --Maybe antimatter or doppelgangers were involved?
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Yes! I found him because his first novel was a historical imagining of Deborah Sampson and then I wasn't sure why he was not on my radar already.
What does zaum mean? (And in what language?)
In Russian (за́умь), "transrational." Sometimes more playfully translated as "beyonsense." It was an invented language comprised almost entirely of sound symbolism and dedicated to illogical, evocative juxtapositions of meaning; it was created by Aleksei Kruchonykh and Velimir Khlebnikov and taken up by other Russian Futurists like Roman Jakobson, which is how I first heard of it. Kruchonykh claimed at different times that it was the universal language of the future and that it had no utility whatsoever which was the point. Its neologisms could be used to write an opera libretto and could also look like a page of printed sound effects.
--Maybe antimatter or doppelgangers were involved?
The robin has returned!
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May your sleep return!
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Thank you!
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These versions are all new to me, though I must have heard the Tom Waits one at some point!
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I'm glad you like them! I heard the Kincaid after both Wilson and Waits.
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Hestia defended her territory! She stared!
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As a possible distraction, I continue to post random thoughts about Babylon 5 on Tumblr.
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Thank you!
As a possible distraction, I continue to post random thoughts about Babylon 5 on Tumblr.
I like your distractions. (Agreed entirely on the intended symmetry which is still visible through the jags and switchbacks of the finished plot.)
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(& I hope you also soon get some better sleep!)
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I look forward to hearing what you think!
(& I hope you also soon get some better sleep!)
(Thank you!)