Du bist unter dem Mistelzweig . . . Jetzt mußt Du Dich küssen lassen . . .

[sovay]

Fortunately, today I upgraded from feeling like crap to feeling like movable crap, so I spent the afternoon with rushthatspeaks and the last two acts of Pandora's Box (1929). The last sequence with Jack the Ripper is amazing. (Nonetheless, I maintain that in a universe with even a handful of common sense, Lulu should totally have run off with the Countess Geschwitz. Alwa was useless.) Presently gaudior showed up and we talked poetry; they went to a reading group and I bought tickets for the upcoming one-week run of the restored print of Metropolis (1927) at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. I am not pleased that Rodney's is about to go extinct, but I feel no guilt about profiting from its fifty-percent-off closing sale to the tune of Claude Calame's The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greece (trans. Janice Orion, 1995), T.E. Lawrence's Minorities (1972—not poems by Lawrence, but favorite poems of his, which he copied into a notebook and carried everywhere with him), and the playscript for David Edgar's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Part One (1982). By that point in the evening I had gone back to feeling as though I should not move possibly ever again, so I came home and fell over and watched some more Night Court. I am becoming increasingly fond of John Larroquette's Dan Fielding, even though he belongs to that class of characters whom in real life I would probably pepper-spray. Tomorrow I am supposed to see eredien. Maybe by then I'll feel like my nose and throat are no longer trying to kill me.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

not poems by Lawrence, but favorite poems of his, which he copied into a notebook and carried everywhere with him -- the difference, in Japanese, between a shisenshû> and a shishû. The former was a collection privately compiled by someone; the latter was a collection of a person's own poems. Some people had both.

Here's hoping your nose and throat go from being potential murderers to being penitent Good Citizens of the Body of Sovay.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Hear hear!

And now I know the Japanese for "commonplace book." Thank you so much.

Nine

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

That's really neat.

[sovay]

the difference, in Japanese, between a shisenshû and a shishû.

I did not know either of those terms. Thank you!

Here's hoping your nose and throat go from being potential murderers to being penitent Good Citizens of the Body of Sovay.

Not so far today . . .

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Okay, your nose and throat need a little sermonizing from Cotton Mather, clearly:

O nose and throat, you must remember that you are a Part of the larger Body; indeed, as Scripture has shown us, the Body is One but hath many Members. You must not now bear any Malice against the rest of the Body but must be fixed, and settled, & confirmed in amity with the rest of that which makes a proper Whole.

[sovay]

O nose and throat, you must remember that you are a Part of the larger Body; indeed, as Scripture has shown us, the Body is One but hath many Members. You must not now bear any Malice against the rest of the Body but must be fixed, and settled, & confirmed in amity with the rest of that which makes a proper Whole.

Man, I never thought I'd be grateful to Cotton Mather for anything. You rock.

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

Ooh, neat.
I hope your upgrade continues apace!

[sovay]

I hope your upgrade continues apace!

Thanks. Unfortunately, today we seem to have crashed again. Reboot startup disk, stay offline for thirty-six hours, and replace head.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I hope things continue to get better, and I hope you feel better, because you have many cool adventures and I must imagine, they are cooler when you are well.

[sovay]

because you have many cool adventures and I must imagine, they are cooler when you are well.

They're certainly less distressing to the people within breathing range of me . . .

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

Do you or Rush happen to recall which of the four musical accompaniments to Pandora's Box that the Criterion edition offers you ended up listening to? Any comments about the music would be gratefully read.

Glad you are at least intermittently on the road to restored health. My sympathies.

[sovay]

Do you or Rush happen to recall which of the four musical accompaniments to Pandora's Box that the Criterion edition offers you ended up listening to?

We settled on Gillian Anderson's orchestral score for a first-time viewing; we liked the cabaret score and the piano accompaniment as music, but we weren't sure how either of them would influence our perceptions of the film. The Anderson was non-intrusive and did a nice job with the Christmas carols in the last act.

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

Thank you; this helps.

[gwynnega]

I hope you feel better soon!

[sovay]

I hope you feel better soon!

Thank you!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Glad you felt slightly better, at least for part of the day. I hope you're soon feeling much better.

I'm always sad to hear of a bookshop closing, but I'm glad you found such interesting things--a look into T.E. Lawrence's commonplace book sounds particularly fascinating.

[sovay]

but I'm glad you found such interesting things--a look into T.E. Lawrence's commonplace book sounds particularly fascinating.

He likes William Morris a lot.