sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2011-12-06 11:30 am
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Since the raging seas and stormy winds parted my love and I

I dreamed that I won the right to a cameo mention as some kind of Boston-area folkloric creature in Margaret Ronald's latest novel by singing "The Lowlands of Holland" in a kulfi shop. You ordered a particular flavor, they asked you to sing for it. I had that terrible real-life blankness that seizes the brain when you know literally more songs than you count and someone says vaguely but encouragingly, having no idea of this, "I don't know, whatever you feel like." Turned out one of the other patrons knew the same version; we wound up trading off harmonies. Is there a kulfi shop anywhere in Boston?

. . . This is probably the most realist dream I've had in months.

My poem "Theseid" has been accepted by Not One of Us.
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[identity profile] cucumberseed.livejournal.com 2011-12-06 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I was once asked to say something funny... It did not turn out well.

Congrats on the sale!

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2011-12-06 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
If the title is from Lowlands of Holland, it is a slightly different version than I know. Interesting. ("Since these four winds and stormy seas parted my love and I.")

Congratulations on the poem! As always.

[identity profile] maratai.livejournal.com 2011-12-06 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats on the poem! (This is Yoon.)

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2011-12-06 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on the acceptance!

That's a wonderful dream.

Is there a khulfi shop anywhere in Boston?

Google yields no evidence of one, alas. I tried both "khulfi" and "kulfi" and found no joy, only shops in India and California.

Tis pity. There should be.

[identity profile] snowy-owlet.livejournal.com 2011-12-06 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
One gets the idea you're steadily taking over the world, one poem at a time.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2011-12-06 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm, kulfi. And "The Lowlands of Holland" was the second song I became aware of, in 2007, as I awoke to old ballads, so I'm very fond of it.

[identity profile] ashlyme.livejournal.com 2011-12-06 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
What flavour did you end up with?

[identity profile] stealthmuffin.livejournal.com 2011-12-07 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my.

I think I will have to find a way to weave you into my next Boston-adjacent novel now. Possibly in a kulfi shop.

Congratulations on the poem!

[identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com 2011-12-07 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Tosci's has been known to do Khulfee ice cream. Does that count? And if I buy you a quart, will you sing me "The Lowlands of Holland"?

Congratulations on the poem.

Nine
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