sovay: (Rotwang)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2012-04-05 10:28 pm (UTC)

I've always wanted an orrery, too.

If I ever get one, you can visit.

I'd probably try the Saboteur out of the Hitchcocktails. Kraken versus rhubarb? Yes, please.

It was much less like a mixed drink than a gardening experience, but I am not sorry.

How are you finding The Focus Group, by the way?

I am on the very last track of my second listen of We are all Pan's People (2009), so you can tell how I feel about that one, and I rather liked Sketches and Spells (2004) and Hey Let Loose Your Love (2005). Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age (2009) was just terrific.

And talking about WWII intelligence, have you read "Between Silk and Cyanide"? I keep meaning to find a copy.

I love Between Silk and Cyanide: it's one of the most fascinatingly detailed/guarded memoirs I've ever read. If you see it in a used book store, buy it on sight. Also you should see Peeping Tom (1960), for which Leo Marks wrote the screenplay; and if you're really curious, Cloudburst (1951). And here's "The Life That I Have" embedded within the Clancy Brothers' "Lily Marlene."

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