There's a frost within your eyes

[sovay]

I wish I knew who'd played Valmont in my last night's dream that was half Les Liaisons dangereuses. Ostensibly he was John Malkovich, but not after I woke up. He was lovely.

After a very nice afternoon of tea, conversation, and Bach, my plans for this evening seem to have gone down the drain of fever and chills, which I do not appreciate. I'm not even sure I have a movie to collapse on the couch and stare at. I may just stare at the remainder of Joseph Conrad's Freya of the Seven Isles (1912) instead. I haven't read it before.

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[ericmvan.livejournal.com]

You would have enjoyed Peter Cook and Dudley Moore hosting "NBC's Saturday Night" (as it was called in its first season, as a competing network had Saturday Night Live With Howard Cosell earlier in the evening; reportedly the SNL producers considered calling their show "Saturday Night Live Without Howard Cosell") on January 24, 1976. They did what I'm sure were several of their classic bits, and I had no memory at all of ever having seen Moore as a one-legged man auditioning for the role of Tarzan ("I have nothing against your right leg," Cook tells him; "the problem is, neither do you"), or of Moore as the evangelist Matthew interviewing Cook as one of the shepherds who witnessed Jesus' birth.

Oddly, the only vivid memory I do have of that episode was of Emily Latella arguing against saving Soviet jewelry. And I am going to preposterously claim that I actually remember seeing that bit while wandering into a room where the show was playing, which would explain why I can't remember any of the rest of it.

Hope you are well soon ...