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My health seems to have uncrashed. Knock wood, sacrifice to Asklepios, etc. Continuing this weekend's celebration, I met ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nineweaving for chocolate tonight and afterward watched A Room with a View (1986), which had both the luminous composition of an oil painting and characters who took up three-dimensional space (and Denholm Elliott, of whom I only wish there was a statue on Old Campus . . .). Sirenia #30 arrived in my inbox a little before midnight; there is a perfect Burne-Jones as illustration for "The Mirror of Venus" and "Rappaccini's Dragon" is as good as its title promised. If you haven't subscribed already, it may not be too late. I am going to bed, to finish reading M. John Harrison's Light. It has no lack of obsessions itself. Fine by me.
nineweaving for chocolate tonight and afterward watched A Room with a View (1986), which had both the luminous composition of an oil painting and characters who took up three-dimensional space (and Denholm Elliott, of whom I only wish there was a statue on Old Campus . . .). Sirenia #30 arrived in my inbox a little before midnight; there is a perfect Burne-Jones as illustration for "The Mirror of Venus" and "Rappaccini's Dragon" is as good as its title promised. If you haven't subscribed already, it may not be too late. I am going to bed, to finish reading M. John Harrison's Light. It has no lack of obsessions itself. Fine by me.
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Gods are like that. The ones in the Aeneid—as in anything by Euripides—may be all kinds of damaging, cruel or contemptuous or incomprehensible, but they are not simply us writ large; they are not human.
And i like that there are bilingual Punic and Etruscan texts in existence. What a rich world we have.
Yes. It's full of odd interconnections. I don't even have to make this stuff up!
(Another name. The Etruscans called themselves the Rasenna, syncopated to Raśna; hence Thesanth's complaint.)
Tôkai I did recognize but wasn't sure if you meant the Japanese
Yeah. I need to work out more of Asia; I know China settled much of the western coast of the Hesperides, but the widely accepted name for the ocean between their continents is Japanese, and Korea is not so isolationist as it was in our timeline. Oh, well, more excuse to read fascinatingly weird history . . .