Because where we are, we won't always be

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Why is no one making a film of Vonda McIntyre's The Moon and the Sun? It began life as a screenplay. It's not as though historical epic is an unpopular genre at the moment. And I cannot be the only person who thinks Peter Dinklage would make a beautiful Count Lucien.

This post brought to you by a complete frustration with calendars.

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[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I can't answer your question, alas. I'd probably go to see it. (Even though I have to admit I've never read the book in question.)

This post brought to you by a complete frustration with calendars.

Calenders are very very frustrating, I quite agree.

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(Even though I have to admit I've never read the book in question.)

I don't know—it's a secret history about a natural historian, a sea monster, and an atheist at the court of the Sun King. It is akin to Mary Doria Russell's A Thread of Grace in that its style is at best functional, but its characters are worth reading through the language for. I don't often want to see books as movies, but I make an exception for this one because of its origins: and as soon as I saw The Station Agent in 2003, I knew who should play its romantic lead. Just apparently no one in Hollywood agrees with me.

Calenders are very very frustrating, I quite agree.

I am particularly wrestling with several different systems of timekeeping. I don't want to deal with consular or regnal years; Olympiads died out in the third or fourth century; I'm counting ab urbe condita in centuries rather than saecula. I feel as though the ghost of Marcus Terentius Varro (or worse, Justinian I) is going to stomp up and down on my head.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

AUC is very nice.

I thought The Moon and the Sun was a total Mary Sue -- gosh, you happen to come to Versailles for the first time and be the one person who can talk to mermaids, and so pretty the other people copy your hairstyle and clothes, and everyone falls in love with you and you can write brilliant music, well my goodness me, how special. I usually like McIntyre too.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Just apparently no one in Hollywood agrees with me.

Well, if it's any consolation, they never seem to agree with me, either.

I am particularly wrestling with several different systems of timekeeping.

Ah. Writing an article about something to do with the Byzantine Empire?

I feel as though the ghost of Marcus Terentius Varro (or worse, Justinian I) is going to stomp up and down on my head.

That does sound disturbing, and hopefully will not happen. But if it does, let me know. I might be able to find an exorcist for you. ;-)

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[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Good luck with whatever it is that's forcing you to wrestle with the calenders.