sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2008-12-25 06:20 pm

The greatest of all the wood-people, Pomona herself

Happiness is a duck in the oven and a glaze of quinces and cider simmering on the stove. In one of its forms, anyway. Another is new books—[livejournal.com profile] papersky's Ha'penny, [livejournal.com profile] desperance's Shelter, Ben Parzybok's Couch, Growing Back: Poems 1972—1992 by Rika Lesser. Yet another is [livejournal.com profile] lesser_celery, in person, talking about Tom Stoppard and beef stock and dirty bombs. Music I haven't heard yet. An enameled plaque of squid. My brother, dozing. TCM appears to be playing film noir for Christmas, of which I totally approve. Tomorrow, the Museum of Science; first, I must attend to the duck.

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2008-12-26 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
That is not to sneer at. Plain duck is still delicious. Duck is delicious. It is one of the foods of the gods.

This is very true.

There was one year when we had enough people in the house at Christmas that we cooked two ducks, one with a bread stuffing and one stuffed with apples and cranberries. I wish we'd had excuse to do that this year.

I hope likewise!

Yes, thank you. It was only my parents and the dog and me, but I'm used to that. And I now have The Children of Húrin, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Eamon Duffy's The Stripping of the Altars, and a very interesting-looking book about Jewish pirates in the Caribbean during the 16th and 17th centuries to read.

[identity profile] schreibergasse.livejournal.com 2008-12-27 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Books: sound very cool! (Well, of course I KNOW Duffy's cool, having been introduced to it way back when it was still fairly new, but.)

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2008-12-27 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Books: sound very cool!

I'm very pleased, yes.

I've kept reading references to Duffy--it seems as if it was about time to actually read him. Now to see how much I can get read before classes start up again and I'm too swamped to read anything that's not either Irish studies or mindless entertainment.

[identity profile] schreibergasse.livejournal.com 2008-12-27 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
You could pretend that Duffy counts as Irish Studies...