Ei mihi, quod domino non licet ire tuo

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Arriving very late in the day, the mail has brought me my contributor's copy of Mythic Delirium #23, in which my poem "Ovid's Two Nightmares" appears alongside what looks like stunning work from Jane Yolen, Shweta Narayan, Rachel Manija Brown, Theodora Goss, and other poets of no little note. I cannot remember how I first read Ovid. I know it was in high school, the same semester as Catullus (and I loved them both); probably we started with the Amores, but it might well have been the Metamorphoses. Past the famous line about carmen et error, I didn't really pick up the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto until graduate school, and I didn't read them all until the last couple of years. This poem was one of the results. To be honest, I don't think it's speculative at all, but I'm not going to tell time_shark that now.

I am off to see The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, where it will be introduced by a roboticist. If someday they show a film with aliens and an extraterrestrial does the prefatory lecture, they will win science fiction forever.

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With opening comments by Professor Marsh and his great great great great

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Yay!

If someday they show a film with aliens and an extraterrestrial does the prefatory lecture, they will win science fiction forever.

It will likely be better than what you'd need to do to win horror forever.

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It will likely be better than what you'd need to do to win horror forever.

It might be hard to do that and still have an audience left to appreciate the feature.