A mermaid's map floats by on the rolling green

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On the brighter side, the table of contents for the inaugural issue of Stone Telling has been announced and it is, as they used to say in the days when cars were pop culture, a doozy.

You know, I am perfectly aware that Jack London was the writer's birth name, but it makes him sound like a genius of place. I wonder if he would have liked that. He was born in San Francisco.

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[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Which leads me to wonder whether San Francisco is twinned with Assissi...

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Ha, I never heard his name as place. (I'm really bad with names that way; I don't hear them as regular words, just sounds of a person's name). But now, as I imagine it, Jack London does not feel like what he writes at all. My immediate image was a London street at night, shiny with rain and a man with a top hat and cane and less than noble intentions. I think there's a melding of London and Jack the Ripper in that.

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

Oh, neat! You are in a thing with LeGuin!

That is full of win, that is!

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

Congratulations; Stone Telling looks like it will be a winner, an elegant and thougthtful journal. The only thing I couldn't find conclusively stated on its website is whether it is a print journal. I dearly wish I'd known of its window of submission for the first issue, I would have sent three little pieces; when they reopen, I will.

I've been starting my day for the last month or so listening to Le Guin reading from her Tao Te Ching, with soundscapes by Todd Barton: evocative, profound, and quite witty; her voice is like magic.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

That looks a wonderful magazine. I'm looking forward to reading it.

Interesting point, there, about Jack London.