No, not those, those are my time-travel trousers

[sovay]

1. My poem "Taking the Auspices" is now online at inkscrawl. The rest of the issue is impressive, too—selkies, Catullus, cities in translation.

2. I still don't know that I'm going to see Tomas Alfredson's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011), but I will take any excuse to read an interview with John Hurt, especially when he talks about weedkilling and Facebook: "I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast."

3. Counteract Orson Scott Card; help rachelmanija list queer main characters in genre YA. Also, write Hamlet slash.

4. Courtesy of someone I met, appropriately, on Sunday at Tea: chap-hop.

5. lesser_celery and I are starting Millennium (1996–99) tonight.

Comments

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

1.

Congratulations!

2.

I'm none too sure I'll see it, either, but the interview was enjoyable. Thanks for sharing it.

3.

Good grief. I'm tired of Orson Scott Card already, but his approach to Shakespeare is unbelieveable. I can't believe anyone would do that with Hamlet, even aside from the strangeness of adding massive homophobia whilst reducing the Hamlet-Ophelia relationship to nothing _and_ splicing in a strain of Hamlet/Horatio. If he thinks there needs to be a contemporary version, why not simply retell the sodding story?

His attitude towards Elizabethan language alone makes me sick. Any reasonably educated fluent English speaker is perfectly capable of reading Early Modern English, given modern typefaces and decent glosses. Someone like OSC, who claims to value older traditions of education, ought to reflect on the fact that the grandparents and great-grandparents of many contemporary Americans, products of the culture he idealises, were well able to read the Bible in the Rheims-Douay or King James translations, despite speaking an English not greatly removed from our own. For God's sake, my mother's grandparents knew reams of Shakespeare off by heart; they weren't native English speakers, and neither of them had a college degree.

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Enjoy! I'm curious to hear what you think of it. I never watched it extensively, but I remember watching a few episodes, as a friend of mine was fairly into it roundabouts 1998.

[sovay]

Congratulations!

Thank you!

Someone like OSC, who claims to value older traditions of education, ought to reflect on the fact that the grandparents and great-grandparents of many contemporary Americans, products of the culture he idealises, were well able to read the Bible in the Rheims-Douay or King James translations, despite speaking an English not greatly removed from our own. For God's sake, my mother's grandparents knew reams of Shakespeare off by heart; they weren't native English speakers, and neither of them had a college degree.

You know you're awesome, right? I'm not being facetious.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

You're welcome!

You know you're awesome, right? I'm not being facetious.

Thank you. I'm honoured. (Also, I have to confess, blushing slightly.)