I've been asked to make a study of a strange sickness

[sovay]

1. My essay "I Can Hardly Believe It Happened: Terence Fisher's The Brides of Dracula," in which I realize more fully a bunch of my thoughts on this splendidly strange film, is now online at Weird Fiction Review. Slowly, my nonfiction creeps through the world.

2. handful_ofdust has supplied me with another Turing song: Andrew Bird's "Not a Robot, But a Ghost."

I hear the clockwork in your core
Time strips the gears
Till you forget what they were for
I push the numbers through your pores
I crack the codes
I crack the codes that end the war

3. Good news: Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner (2014) is getting a U.S. release. Bad news: I have to wait until December?

Dentist today. Lots of work. Yesterday was still totally worth it.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That essay is excellent--is it an expansion on the one you wrote earlier in LJ?

he knows the rules of both worlds and belongs to neither. Was that line in the original essay? I love that quick, sure statement about the liminality of the magician.

[sovay]

That essay is excellent--is it an expansion on the one you wrote earlier in LJ?

It is. I like its final form.

I love that quick, sure statement about the liminality of the magician.

Thank you! (I think there was an earlier draft.)