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I've had this headache six days straight
And today, instead of walking around Boston with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fleurdelis28, I have a fever and generally feel as though an object of suitable hyperbolic weight and mass was dropped on me. This is not preferable.
It helps slightly that the mail just arrived with my contributor's copy of Not One of Us #43. This is the shadow issue, and of its shades I particularly recommend Becca De La Rosa's "All Night Wait," Shweta Narayan's "II. Binah as a Child," Francesca Forrest's "Persephone Takes Hades Home," Patricia Russo's "The Shadow Traders," and J.C. Runolfson's "In the Sea Witch's Grotto"; the closer is my flash "The Fool Where Angels Fear." It was not inspired by La strada (1954), which I saw about a week after I'd written the piece forasakiyume, but clearly it should have been. Fellini may have this effect on the normal flow of time.
And I am not sure I have anything else to contribute to the day's intelligent discourse, so I am going to recommend other people's awesome:
Yoon Ha Lee's "Between Two Dragons." I understand that we live in an imperfect universe and a worse economy; nonetheless, it seems to me seriously backward that some perceptive editor has not yet noticed the spare grace, evocation, and intelligence of stories like "The Shadow Postulates," "Swanwatch," "The Unstrung Zither," and "The Pirate Captain's Daughter"—to name only a few—and collected Lee's work already. In the meantime, I love this story very much. It's made me want to study the Imjin War.
Elizabeth Carroll's "The Duke of Vertumn's Fingerling." Whereas I know nothing of this author except that I would like to see more of her work, stat. I was reminded slightly of Mary Gentle, without wanting to smack her upside the head for Ilario.
Dr. Bouville and the Morose Curate. Yes, these are Twitter accounts. They are the creations of Paula Tatarunis and I only wish I could have seen them illustrated by Edward Gorey or, if he wasn't available, Luis Buñuel. Start from the beginning, with the basic ingredients: black coffee, rolls, and angst.
(I always forget that Lloyd Alexander translated Sartre. When I'm not feverish, I really need to find a copy of The Diary of Anton Roquentin (1949).)
fleurdelis28, I have a fever and generally feel as though an object of suitable hyperbolic weight and mass was dropped on me. This is not preferable.It helps slightly that the mail just arrived with my contributor's copy of Not One of Us #43. This is the shadow issue, and of its shades I particularly recommend Becca De La Rosa's "All Night Wait," Shweta Narayan's "II. Binah as a Child," Francesca Forrest's "Persephone Takes Hades Home," Patricia Russo's "The Shadow Traders," and J.C. Runolfson's "In the Sea Witch's Grotto"; the closer is my flash "The Fool Where Angels Fear." It was not inspired by La strada (1954), which I saw about a week after I'd written the piece for
asakiyume, but clearly it should have been. Fellini may have this effect on the normal flow of time.And I am not sure I have anything else to contribute to the day's intelligent discourse, so I am going to recommend other people's awesome:
Yoon Ha Lee's "Between Two Dragons." I understand that we live in an imperfect universe and a worse economy; nonetheless, it seems to me seriously backward that some perceptive editor has not yet noticed the spare grace, evocation, and intelligence of stories like "The Shadow Postulates," "Swanwatch," "The Unstrung Zither," and "The Pirate Captain's Daughter"—to name only a few—and collected Lee's work already. In the meantime, I love this story very much. It's made me want to study the Imjin War.
Elizabeth Carroll's "The Duke of Vertumn's Fingerling." Whereas I know nothing of this author except that I would like to see more of her work, stat. I was reminded slightly of Mary Gentle, without wanting to smack her upside the head for Ilario.
Dr. Bouville and the Morose Curate. Yes, these are Twitter accounts. They are the creations of Paula Tatarunis and I only wish I could have seen them illustrated by Edward Gorey or, if he wasn't available, Luis Buñuel. Start from the beginning, with the basic ingredients: black coffee, rolls, and angst.
(I always forget that Lloyd Alexander translated Sartre. When I'm not feverish, I really need to find a copy of The Diary of Anton Roquentin (1949).)
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That ToC looks very tasty.
Fellini may have this effect on the normal flow of time.
I would not be surprised to find this out.
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Thank you. I am at least feeling more optimistic than this morning, when I did not want to move at all. By evening I had become stir crazy, and walked around the bike path and observed an orange cat with four white feet and a white tail-tip trotting home with a chipmunk in its mouth. (And then I came home and collapsed, but still. I'm hoping for actual interaction tomorrow.)
That ToC looks very tasty.
It's only $4.50. It has stories I haven't even mentioned. It is sweet to the taste until it stings . . .
I would not be surprised to find this out.
Yeah. I've been told his Satyricon contains a spaceship.
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Glad you've got the contributor's copy, and thank you for sharing the links.
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Much appreciated.
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The angsty tweets are marvellous!
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Oh, cool. If it is not an imposition, please tell her I like her work!
The angsty tweets are marvellous!
"I am baking the Curate a potato. I do not know what else to do."
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Thank you! Working on it!
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Thank you. It is appreciated.
So glad you liked "The Duke of Vertumn's Fingerling"
Also--
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Okay, that is very awesome. Shall do.
(I know, I know you are doing your best--but please continue to do so.)
Thanks. Trying.
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Be well.
Nine
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I like that in despite of Sturgeon's Law, there is some marvelous fiction out there, and it's not even very hard to find.
Be well.
Not dead yet!
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If you haven't heard it already, I recommend downloading (free!) Amanda Palmers brand new recording at http://www.amandapalmer.net/thetruth/. It distracted my from my headache for a precious five minutes, perhaps you will find similar respite.
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Excellent. Also, I'm glad it doesn't smell like Lysol . . .
If you haven't heard it already, I recommend downloading (free!) Amanda Palmers brand new recording at http://www.amandapalmer.net/thetruth/. It distracted my from my headache for a precious five minutes, perhaps you will find similar respite.
I have not heard it already. Rock. Thank you!
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I've still got it. I resent this fact.
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The character with whom Ilario ends up romantically paired is the obvious choice right from the beginning and, from my perspective, the least interesting of all possible options—presupposing that Ilario had to end up with anybody, which didn't need to happen, either—especially given some of the conclusions Ilario comes to about gender at the end of the book.
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