And the sea is so much deeper than the grave

[sovay]

1. I read my book about Egon Schiele on the bus to Porter Square. Periodically I turned a page and the woman seated behind me (who must have been reading over my shoulder) said, "Oh, dear." I can understand this response with some of Schiele's nudes or the full-page color plate of his self-portrait masturbating, but I don't know what she objected to about the sunflowers.

2. I am tired enough that I kept misreading the titles on books in McIntyre and Moore's. I think my favorites were "How the Dead Will Sleep" and "Jane Austen Among the Women."

3. I don't know how I failed to discover Hilda Tablet back in October when I was mainlining Flanders and Swann, but I thank Yuletide for her now.¹ Does anyone know where to get recordings of the original radio plays? Also, Derek Jacobi?

4. Assuming we are not under six feet of snow, fleurdelis28, sharhaun, and I have tickets to the Stravinsky/Bartók double bill at the BSO on Friday. All credit to awhyzip. Also further evidence that Boston is a small world after all.

Five things may be supposed to make a post, but I'm going to read some Patrick Leigh Fermor and go to bed. Someday I will not have a fever. It will be exciting!

1. I turn out to like Henry Reed's poems, too.

Comments

[ericmvan.livejournal.com]

I am enormously relieved to learn that the double bill is not Rite of Spring (nor Les Noces) plus Music For Strings, Percussion, and Celeste. Because if it were, I would have to kidnap someone in the party and I am much too busy to do jail time now.

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

Have fun at the concert! I saw the Bartok at symphony Hall a couple of years ago (not the same cast, though), and it was amazing. If you are sitting in the orchestra section, when the fifth door opens, the music just comes at you like a gian wave - it's almost tangible. It's amazing.

Jane Austen Among the Women

[papersky.livejournal.com]

They told her she could have glory or length of days, and then she changed her mind.

You going to write that?

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

And speaking of Derek Jacobi, did you know about this?

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

...but I don't know what she objected to about the sunflowers.

That is a unique thing to be squicked at. Perhaps she'd had some experience of being chased by angry sunflowers?

4.

I hope you've indeed been able to go, and that it's been a wonderful time. We've had about a foot of snow here--I'm told it was slow going on the highways, so I'm glad I had no cause for being on them.

I hope you've found some sleep, and that you'll be feeling better soon.