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And all the angels and all the wizards black and white
My cousin Tristen has been visiting with his grandparents since Sunday, so yesterday we made a particular field trip: I took him to the New England Aquarium, which he had never seen and I hadn't visited since college at least. I am delighted to report that little has changed except for the better; I miss the blacklit wall of sharks, but there's an exhibit now of weedy and leafy sea dragons, the electric eel has a much nicer environment than it did when I watched it stun its prey, and the three-story ocean tank was exactly as I remember it, morays and nurse sharks and green sea turtle and all.1 The seals were silver as tetradrachms and sleek in the water. There are not too many screens. I fed Tristen shrimp at Legal Sea Foods and then we both came home and collapsed, which was sort of the state I remained in for the rest of the day. Watched In the Beginning (1998) with Eric and the rest of the Babylon 5 people. Wished Nickelodeon had released a soundtrack album for Avatar: The Last Airbender. I had better be able to start making up sleep for Readercon soon.
Yesterday's mail, however, brought me contributor's copies of Sybil's Garage #7, in which my poem "Candle for the Tetragrammaton" appears alongside work by Amelia Shackleford, Tom Crosshill, Sam Ferree, Hal Duncan, Amal El-Mohtar, Anil Menon, and Alex Dally McFarlane, just to name some of my favorites. The after-hours reading at Readercon was too crowded for me to get into,1 but the contents don't suffer from being read off the page; the issue has been beautifully put together, and for the first time it's bound like a journal instead of a half-legal 'zine. If you want to pick up a copy, it's right there on Amazon. Its closing epigraph is the same proverb that titled my poem: נר ה' נשמת אדם. The human spirit is the candle of God.
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wind05 and Sabitha and their friend. I could carry my Brandeis umbrella and ensure it doesn't rain.
1. I'm glad the Aquarium keeps a timeline; I just wish it were more specific than architecture and temporary exhibits. I didn't remember the giant green anemones at all.
2. I'm being entirely literal. I think it was held inmattkressel's room on the last night of the con. Standing room only. I stuck it out for the duration of Crosshill's "Thinking Woman's Crop of Fools" and then decided—I know it's passé—I liked being able to breathe. I had already heard tithenai perform "Schehirrazade" at the Rhysling Awards.
Yesterday's mail, however, brought me contributor's copies of Sybil's Garage #7, in which my poem "Candle for the Tetragrammaton" appears alongside work by Amelia Shackleford, Tom Crosshill, Sam Ferree, Hal Duncan, Amal El-Mohtar, Anil Menon, and Alex Dally McFarlane, just to name some of my favorites. The after-hours reading at Readercon was too crowded for me to get into,1 but the contents don't suffer from being read off the page; the issue has been beautifully put together, and for the first time it's bound like a journal instead of a half-legal 'zine. If you want to pick up a copy, it's right there on Amazon. Its closing epigraph is the same proverb that titled my poem: נר ה' נשמת אדם. The human spirit is the candle of God.
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wind05 and Sabitha and their friend. I could carry my Brandeis umbrella and ensure it doesn't rain.1. I'm glad the Aquarium keeps a timeline; I just wish it were more specific than architecture and temporary exhibits. I didn't remember the giant green anemones at all.
2. I'm being entirely literal. I think it was held in
mattkressel's room on the last night of the con. Standing room only. I stuck it out for the duration of Crosshill's "Thinking Woman's Crop of Fools" and then decided—I know it's passé—I liked being able to breathe. I had already heard tithenai perform "Schehirrazade" at the Rhysling Awards.
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What a moving statement.
Sea dragons are lovely creatures. Did Tristen like them?
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It's a worthy combination. That story determined me to learn at least some of the Catalogue of Ships.
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It's the reason you light yahrzeit candles for the dead.
Sea dragons are lovely creatures. Did Tristen like them?
He did. He'd never seen them before. But he loved the seals, which made me glad; we'd watched The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) the night before.
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There was always the chance that seals in person would have been less magical than seals on the page. But he was enraptured.
(How did I never notice you had a weedy sea dragon icon before? It's great.)
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And I don't use the icon much, so that's probably why.
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Also, there is news, which will be announced soon.
But as a hint, I put the line back in.
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Come to Boston; we'll go.
But as a hint, I put the line back in.
Sweet.
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Congratulations on the contributor's copy
Bother, I wasn't done writing yet.
I hope you can catch up on sleep soon--I can relate a lot, as I'm still half-destroyed from Irish Arts Week.
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Thank you!
Have a good time with your friends! I hope the umbrella does its job.
Nah, I left it at home and it poured. But we had a good time anyway.
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Nice!
The sea dragons were one of the highlights of the visit, though I am also fond of penguins.
I bear the penguins no ill will.
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You're welcome!
Nah, I left it at home and it poured. But we had a good time anyway.
Ah, well, it's a pity that it poured, and you without your umbrella, but I'm delighted that ye had a good time all the same.
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I liked it very much!
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Enjoy, whenever that happens to be! I was very pleased to be in its company.