It's hard to believe, in the factory, how the satin feels and the diamonds gleam

[sovay]

Hm. I'm sort of like the evil robot Maria in Metropolis.

Cool.*

*I should point out that when I was very small, my parents took me to an exhibit about robots at the Boston Museum of Science. Robot Maria? Scared the bejeezus out of me. Masks, again. Doppelgangers; the false that fronts itself as the real: the same reason that I hid behind the couch when we watched Invasion of the Body Snatchers in fifth grade. If I'd been a character in Hoffmann's "Der Sandmann," I wouldn't have made it past the scene where the clockwork Olimpia's eyes fall out and roll across the floor. And now I write stories about golems and possession and the scientist-alchemist Rotwang interests me more than any other character in Fritz Lang's film, so go figure . . .

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[blindsidepubs.livejournal.com]

You have inadvertently turned me onto The Decemberists. I'm none too pleased.

[sovay]

You can always stop listening . . .