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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)
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)
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Congratulations!
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If I can get the piece with the thing with the thing finished, d'you mind if I send it over for a tandem consideration... thing?
Oh God I need to shut up.
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I don't think I can do anything about that; I don't really do poetry, so I don't know that I could make the queer Tam Lin work as a poem without the context of all of the stuff that was the reason I wanted to write it as a novel, but it's an interesting thought. (I'd rather try to make it work as a novel, I think.)
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Excellent! I'm very fond of that one.
Nine
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You have this one in your e-mail. It's from the essay he wrote to Christopher's mother after April 1932.
If I can get the piece with the thing with the thing finished, d'you mind if I send it over for a tandem consideration... thing?
Not at all. Send me the thing.
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Thank you!
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Thank you!
Sadly I don't write poems but that looks like a cool issue.
It should be fantastic. If you find yourself inspired . . .
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I just want to register my appreciation of that sentence.
(Have you sent your non-queer Tam Lin poem anywhere?)
You do poems about The Tempest?
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Thank you!
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I wish I could think of anything to write for them that would suit, but I can't. I hope they can get more submissions soon, and that they'll be worthy of sharing a TOC with "The Clock House".
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you just didnt see how that gave me the worst giggles ever... do you have to lick it or is it self sticking? (snort snort.. groan)
Its bad that they didnt pardon him, he was such a brilliant man, if they had left him alone, he would have done even more.
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I always feel faintly bad about not chaining mine to a radiator.
Turing was truly one of the World's Awesome People - the SO is fond of describing him as the only person who could have solved the problem of artificial intelligence for us, and now we never will. I look forward to seeing the poem.
Thank you. I hope you'll like it. I hope it honors them.
(Have you got a poem to send?)
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Thank you!
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Dude, he deserves somebody's tongue on him after all this time.
he was such a brilliant man, if they had left him alone, he would have done even more.
Yes.
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Hee! I may have to attach an honorary chain to the handle...
(Bletchley Park was on our to-do list when visiting London last year. We made it to the Royal Observatory, instead; next time for sure).
(Have you got a poem to send?)
I have been a good little selidor; two are in their inbox.
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If I lived in the UK, I would.
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I feel I should send them something else, so I'll see what the afternoon brings.
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You. Fired. Oh God FIRED.
I am at work at my desk.
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Thank you! And absolutely, same.
I feel I should send them something else, so I'll see what the afternoon brings.
Did you ever finish the one with the peacock boy?
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I read a draft: it was pretty hot.
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Glad to help!
but I've lived in one of Basil Spence's buildings, and don't really want to entrust my correspondence to him...
What would happen to your letters?
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I have to go there as well. And to Derek Jarman's garden.
I have been a good little selidor; two are in their inbox.
Appropriate luck-wishing rituals sent your way!
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It has bondage in it. And slightly-described drunken godsex.
Sovay - I love you for what you wrote.
Snowy - may I add you for asking?
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Understood.
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Well, if his influence still endures, they might turn a rather depressing shade of pale grey, or their roofs might leak when it rained...
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I have not -- I wrote a draft about a year ago but never managed to edit it into something I thought was any good, but see above, re me not really doing poetry. I could take another look and post it under friends-lock if you're interested.
I don't have anything Tempest related, but I suppose if I managed it, the most likely option would be novel backstory about a queer, cross-cultural relationship, so it would be relevant to Stone Telling even if it's not particularly relevant to the novel. I'll think on it.
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