I see the mountain and that is all I see

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1. My poem "Spirit Photography" is now online at Through the Gate. It is their inaugural issue; the table of contents is full of poets whose work I love and a few I look forward to learning more about. The inspiration is exactly what it says down at the bottom of the page.

2. My poems "Graffiti" and "Taking the Auspices" have been nominated for the 2012 Dwarf Stars Award. It's rose_lemberg and mitchell_hart's fault for publishing them in the first place.

3. I spent most of last night with a weird half-migraine, but earlier in the afternoon derspatchel met me after my dentist's appointment and we went to the Ether Dome and the Russell Museum of Medical History and Innovation, although we did not go up to the roof garden; we stopped with the portraits of people we'd never heard of, as the guard at the door glossed them to us. We walked to Pho Pasteur afterward for dinner. There was, later, a glass of rum for the pirate cat.

4. J.K. Rowling has said something terrible on the internet: "The thing about fantasy—there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. You don't have sex near unicorns. It's an ironclad rule. It's tacky."

I have no doubt the internet is already filling with unicorn-proximate porn, but if anyone on this friendlist wishes to add to the literature, I can only approve.

(She says also, "The person who is leading the quest—it seems that they have to have this weird purity about them," with which I passionately disagree. I've spent most of my reading life being bored with Galahads. More questing fuck-ups, please.)

5. I still have too much of this weird half-migraine, but I slept until two o'clock and I am seeing rushthatspeaks and Apocalypse Now (1979) before candlelighting.

Come back out of the dark and be written well.

Comments

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Congratulations on 1 and 2. Glad to be sharing a ToC with you!

Thank you! Likewise!

I'm blaming the half-migraine on J.K. and the near-unicorn sex. This is certainly the culprit.

It is a well-known fact that headaches are often caused by people being stupid on the internet . . .

My doctor recommended butterbur when I went to have my migraine checked out.

I have a known trigger for migraines, which is caffeine; this was not a factor on Monday night, which is one of the things that disturbs me. I'm still feeling weird enough that I'm going to the doctor's this afternoon. I really don't want to have developed an exciting new variation.

[three-magpies.livejournal.com]

I am glad to hear you aten't dead, as your newest post shows.

Happy New Year!

(Ignore the unicorn triggers - they go away if you don't look)

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I am glad to hear you aten't dead, as your newest post shows.

Thank you! It is the condition I prefer!

Happy New Year!

Likewise!

(Ignore the unicorn triggers - they go away if you don't look)

Oh, God, the unicorn observer principle . . .

The Unicorn Observer Principle

[selidor]

We are questing for the unicorn.
It is a very simple problem:
will the purity of the observer P(p)
affect the collapse of the waveform.
Remember that this is purely theoretical.
There are no unicorns in superposition
with the idea of other unicorns,
individual glades approximate a forest,
and neither cats, nor children,
are included in our parameterisation.
It is all in the description:
many trials are complete, their worlds
excluded. The strange part?
How so many try this for year on year,
carting battered shield against beaten hopes,
asking vainly for further chances, distracted
by narwhals or merely by making dinner,
waiting to distill one perfect collapse -

we now determine that the outcome
depends only on the opportunity of the observer.

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will the purity of the observer P(p)
affect the collapse of the waveform.
Remember that this is purely theoretical.

BOO. YA.

Get this one in print, too.

Re: The Unicorn Observer Principle

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Excellent!