What if something happens to you? It's the Zone

[sovay]

I am very definitely sick. My throat feels like sandstone, I cough whenever I forget to pay attention to it, and my brain seems to have been sponged away. It was worth attending the last night of A Man for All Seasons anyway. (derspatchel reflects on the production and the wildlife of the Factory Theatre.) I am about to pack up my computer and head to the HFA for Stalker (1979), because I think that will also be worth it. I hope I did something useful at the Readercon meeting. It has been the kind of day where following sentences feels like a mental marathon.

strange_selkie appears to have found the only picture in Tilda Swinton's career where she looks like me. I've seen Jarman's Caravaggio (1986). I think it's just that frame. But in a rare moment of batting away Tiny Richardson, my hair totally does that sometimes.

(In related news, here we have Cate Blanchett evidently starring as Rosen from The Desert Peach.)

Almost none of these portraits work for me, because never mind the modern clothes, the faces are all wrong for the 1860's, but then there's Elijah Wood and I kind of want to get him together with Phineas Gage.

Traditionally I've wanted more in the way of earth and moss and wildness, but if someone directs a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream with the fairies costumed like this, I'll go see it. Fourth one down especially. That is for me an acceptable Titania. Out of this wood do not desire to go.

Into the cold again.

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Talking of people who look like you, do you see a resemblance with Frances Hardinge? I have a touch of prosopagnosia, as you know, so probably you're actually quite different, but she always reminds me physically of you, and vice versa.

[sovay]

Talking of people who look like you, do you see a resemblance with Frances Hardinge?

I don't know—I never think of other people as looking like me unless the reasons are specifically described and even then I can't usually see it; I had to agree about Tilda Swinton because I have photographic evidence of the hair! In the case of Frances Hardinge, I've never met her, but she looks like she has long hair, a long nose, and distinct eyebrows, which is close enough for government work if you're slightly face-blind? You should ask people who've seen both of us in motion. Photographs are often a matter of angles.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

True. As a matter of fact, having noticed this some time ago I happened to meet both of you in the flesh for the first time within a couple of months of each other last year, and the resemblance is certainly less striking in person, though of course you sound very different as well.

Also, now I think about it, Frances's hat is a kind of trademark, and I very likely connected it somewhere in my brain with this jacket image from a book by an online acquaintance. Admittedly, the person in the picture doesn't look like either of you even to me, but the hat does look like Frances's hat, and the word "Sovay" is written in big friendly letters right above it, so... Well, let's say I'm a martyr to subconscious association. (You're both wonderful writers as well, of course.)