So far this week I have sat in a park with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rushthatspeaks and walked around my neighborhood with choco_frosh, making it my most densely populated social calendar in months. It has been very nice, especially since I have actually slept the last two nights after the abrupt, autumnal temperature drop. I wish I had not forgotten my camera this afternoon, but fortunately Schreiber' had his phone and took pictures for me of the mildly Lovecraftian squash arbor and the flower that looked like tropical broccoli.
( Though I play the highway kind and he the china dancer. )
Have some more links.
1. Courtesy ofspatch: the treasures of the Tytell Typewriter Archive. "Imagine being so well-known for your craft that letters addressed to 'Mr. Typewriter, New York' would get delivered by the Post Office to your door. Imagine you mount a letter wrong while crafting a typewriter, and it causes a country (Burma) to change that letter to accommodate your mistake. Or that, through decades, your expert testimony about the accuracy of a brand of typewriter and the characters it types means the difference between guilt, incarceration, freedom or the swapping of fortunes. Such was the life of Pearl and Martin Tytell, of Tytell Typewriter."
2. Courtesy ofselkie: Sarah Perry reminds the London Review of Books about real history, not its received and limiting shape. The entire thread is worth reading.
3. I am never sure of the etiquette of sharing reviews (although I would have shared this one sooner, if not for the not sleeping), but I was really pleased by the things Charles Payseur had to say about "The Trouble Over" at Quick Sip Reviews:
A lot of the imagery, a lot of the details, seem to mesh with the life of Isaac Rosenberg, poet and painter. Indeed, the title comes from something he remarked about joining the war that he would eventually die in. The piece captures a sort of history inside the details of his life, his family, showing the ways that war pushed and pulled him, even before he was born . . . it does get to this way that here is something defined by brevity. And what's there is lovely, is strong. But there's also the implication that there could have been more, that shadow that anchors the final lines one that falls over time, that is defined by absence. The shadow is what might have been, is the loss, is the small body of work that remains, reminding everyone not only of the brilliance that was, but the brilliance that was lost on something as tragic and pointless as war. It's a wonderful piece, lingering without losing any of its sharp edge. Definitely a piece to spend some time with!
4. Gemma Files has been writing excellent season overviews of Bryan Fuller's Hannibal (2013–15). I am quoted in the final one. After which I observed that Antonia Bird's Ravenous (1999) is totally Hannibal's idea of a date movie.
5. Courtesy of a friend who is not on Dreamwidth: A Brief History of the Jewish Taste for Horror: A Live Illustrated Zoom Lecture by Jewish Studies Scholar Ilaria Briata. It's in October and requires paying for, but looks really neat. "Will it be thus, the talk posits, possible to speak of Jewish horror?"
Having now watched nearly through the third season of Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–17), it was slightly funnier than it might otherwise have been to walk by the historic house on Sycamore Street—the one with a yard full of poppies in season—and be reminded it was the headquarters of Charles Lee during the Siege of Boston.
rushthatspeaks and walked around my neighborhood with choco_frosh, making it my most densely populated social calendar in months. It has been very nice, especially since I have actually slept the last two nights after the abrupt, autumnal temperature drop. I wish I had not forgotten my camera this afternoon, but fortunately Schreiber' had his phone and took pictures for me of the mildly Lovecraftian squash arbor and the flower that looked like tropical broccoli.( Though I play the highway kind and he the china dancer. )
Have some more links.
1. Courtesy of
spatch: the treasures of the Tytell Typewriter Archive. "Imagine being so well-known for your craft that letters addressed to 'Mr. Typewriter, New York' would get delivered by the Post Office to your door. Imagine you mount a letter wrong while crafting a typewriter, and it causes a country (Burma) to change that letter to accommodate your mistake. Or that, through decades, your expert testimony about the accuracy of a brand of typewriter and the characters it types means the difference between guilt, incarceration, freedom or the swapping of fortunes. Such was the life of Pearl and Martin Tytell, of Tytell Typewriter."2. Courtesy of
selkie: Sarah Perry reminds the London Review of Books about real history, not its received and limiting shape. The entire thread is worth reading.3. I am never sure of the etiquette of sharing reviews (although I would have shared this one sooner, if not for the not sleeping), but I was really pleased by the things Charles Payseur had to say about "The Trouble Over" at Quick Sip Reviews:
A lot of the imagery, a lot of the details, seem to mesh with the life of Isaac Rosenberg, poet and painter. Indeed, the title comes from something he remarked about joining the war that he would eventually die in. The piece captures a sort of history inside the details of his life, his family, showing the ways that war pushed and pulled him, even before he was born . . . it does get to this way that here is something defined by brevity. And what's there is lovely, is strong. But there's also the implication that there could have been more, that shadow that anchors the final lines one that falls over time, that is defined by absence. The shadow is what might have been, is the loss, is the small body of work that remains, reminding everyone not only of the brilliance that was, but the brilliance that was lost on something as tragic and pointless as war. It's a wonderful piece, lingering without losing any of its sharp edge. Definitely a piece to spend some time with!
4. Gemma Files has been writing excellent season overviews of Bryan Fuller's Hannibal (2013–15). I am quoted in the final one. After which I observed that Antonia Bird's Ravenous (1999) is totally Hannibal's idea of a date movie.
5. Courtesy of a friend who is not on Dreamwidth: A Brief History of the Jewish Taste for Horror: A Live Illustrated Zoom Lecture by Jewish Studies Scholar Ilaria Briata. It's in October and requires paying for, but looks really neat. "Will it be thus, the talk posits, possible to speak of Jewish horror?"
Having now watched nearly through the third season of Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–17), it was slightly funnier than it might otherwise have been to walk by the historic house on Sycamore Street—the one with a yard full of poppies in season—and be reminded it was the headquarters of Charles Lee during the Siege of Boston.
