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And Hades has the medicine that he keeps down on the floor
Today: spent almost entirely at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. I made pilgrimage to the glass flowers and the Kronosaurus; I saw the new exhibits on evolution and color; I took badly pixellated pictures of their two specimens of taaffeite with my cellphone, which only wishes it were a camera. I am hoping next week to visit the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, especially as I now have a membership to the whole complex. I have decided I need more museums in my daily life.
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rax and eredien, who fed me grilled corn and rosewater muffins and showed me Halloween Is Grinch Night (1977), which I had somehow missed in my otherwise acceptably warped childhood. I don't quite know how my brain took it. I'm still processing the fact that I found it weirder than Edward Gorey's The Curious Sofa.
Tonight: my poem "Phersipnai" has been accepted by ChiZine. It is my first sale there.
I call this a good day.
(Tomorrow, I work on the kitchen a lot. But then Eric and I drive down to Providence to hear Birdsongs of the Mesozoic withgreygirlbeast and humglum, so I predict it will be all right. And at some point, I am assured, we will be able to cook upstairs again . . .)
Evening: spent with
rax and eredien, who fed me grilled corn and rosewater muffins and showed me Halloween Is Grinch Night (1977), which I had somehow missed in my otherwise acceptably warped childhood. I don't quite know how my brain took it. I'm still processing the fact that I found it weirder than Edward Gorey's The Curious Sofa.Tonight: my poem "Phersipnai" has been accepted by ChiZine. It is my first sale there.
I call this a good day.
(Tomorrow, I work on the kitchen a lot. But then Eric and I drive down to Providence to hear Birdsongs of the Mesozoic with
greygirlbeast and humglum, so I predict it will be all right. And at some point, I am assured, we will be able to cook upstairs again . . .)
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It was discovered by Edward Charles Richard Taaffe, who is some kind of very distant cousin; mostly he was a gemologist and the grandson of Eduard Graf Taaffe, twice Minister-President of Austria. My family has no titles. Even if we had, the Anglo-Irish titles were revoked in 1917 and the Austrian ones disappeared in 1920. This did not stop my paternal grandfather, I am told, from styling himself as an aristocrat until he died. In any case, there is in this world a mineral with my name on it, even if I did nothing to deserve it.
I should go back with an actual camera. The single crystal is a dark violet; the rough specimen is a greyish green.
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Apologies for the huge pictures! I was editing them smaller when you replied. Next time, preview is my friend.
(I think it's cool, too.)
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