sovay: (Cho Hakkai: intelligence)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2012-02-08 06:14 pm

Tea leaves, bicycle chains and dream of Christopher, Christopher and the machine

I am drinking goat's milk hot chocolate from my Alan Turing mug. (It's from the ACM.)

My poem "The Clock House" has been accepted by Stone Telling.

It's a piece I wanted to write since the fall of 2008; it took me a year once I got started. It is for Christopher Morcom. It is also for Alan Turing.

It is Turing's centenary year. The call to grant him a posthumous pardon for his conviction for gross indecency was just rejected. (He did get a stamp.) I submitted the poem specifically for Stone Telling's queer issue.

They need more submissions. Send them some.

I did believe it possible for a spirit at death to go to a universe entirely separate from our own, but I now consider that matter and spirit are so connected that this would be a contradiction in terms. It is possible however but unlikely that such universes may exist.
—Alan Turing, "The Nature of Spirit" (1932)

[identity profile] shewhomust.livejournal.com 2012-02-09 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
Two pieces of good news - because I hadn't heard about the 'Britons of Distinction' stamps, and I'm almost out of Dave McKean dragons! (I hope you don't have to buy the whole set - the May Morris is very pretty, but I've lived in one of Basil Spence's buildings, and don't really want to entrust my correspondence to him...)

[identity profile] shewhomust.livejournal.com 2012-02-10 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
What would happen to your letters?

Well, if his influence still endures, they might turn a rather depressing shade of pale grey, or their roofs might leak when it rained...