Just a makeshift show-and-tell, playing out the lives of the lost and found

[sovay]

So I was thinking about actors, and about writing about actors, and about the ways in which it very slightly sucks that I am involved with derspatchel because it does impair me from writing about him as I would with any other character actor whose work I really like, when I realized that if we keep everything together, by the time his next show goes up in December we'll be married and I'll have that much more conflict of interest.

That blew my mind. I'm going to bed.

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[sovay]

I'm sorry: I wasn't reading carefully. .... I might still have responded in a teasing vein, but I do see how you might feel inhibited (i.e., it's not a problem to be laughed away)--and yet I think it's much better to see it as a manifestation of Tiny Wittgenstein and go ahead and write, if you feel inclined.

You should not apologize; you haven't said anything regrettable. This is a combination of T. Witt. and the fact that there are ways in which I never expected to be married to anyone.

People I know in real life inform my fiction much less that way than they do my poetry. "The Boatman's Cure" is a recent exception in that I think it is doing a lot of the same things as my ghost poems, albeit at greater length and less directly, but the only thing Evelyn got from Rob was the way he blows his nose. Mostly he's played by Roddy McDowall circa The Legend of Hell House. (He was in the dream.)