Too much of my afternoon was spent on the phone with bureaucracy, but just before sunset ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
a_reasonable_man came around and we had a very nice socially distanced walk, this time with more water.
( That high-class music is a little melancholy, but it's always so refined. )
Like everyone else who reads and has opinions, I am used to running into literary conventions that run directly counter to mine, but while reading Leonard Gribble's The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939) I had to take a second for reasons that had nothing to do with the usual period sexism, anti-Semitism etc. The detective inspector's sergeant is describing the murder victim, a half-back for the fictional amateur team of the Trojans: "I bet this bird never knew what was happening to him, though he looks the kind that might have asked for trouble. Dark hair, bit effeminate in features, well built. But mouth too thin, eyes a bit too close together—" and of course it's not meant to be an approving description and indeed in his brief pre-mortem cameo the character comes off as a talented jerk, but I still bet that in three dimensions I'd have thought he had an interesting face.
a_reasonable_man came around and we had a very nice socially distanced walk, this time with more water.( That high-class music is a little melancholy, but it's always so refined. )
Like everyone else who reads and has opinions, I am used to running into literary conventions that run directly counter to mine, but while reading Leonard Gribble's The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939) I had to take a second for reasons that had nothing to do with the usual period sexism, anti-Semitism etc. The detective inspector's sergeant is describing the murder victim, a half-back for the fictional amateur team of the Trojans: "I bet this bird never knew what was happening to him, though he looks the kind that might have asked for trouble. Dark hair, bit effeminate in features, well built. But mouth too thin, eyes a bit too close together—" and of course it's not meant to be an approving description and indeed in his brief pre-mortem cameo the character comes off as a talented jerk, but I still bet that in three dimensions I'd have thought he had an interesting face.
