The blood of his friends was gone beneath snow

[sovay]

In recent years, I feel we have been promised many blizzards, snowpocalypses, and Fimbulvetrs that never quite made the grade: blew out to sea, slumped off into freezing rain, deposited an entirely normal amount of snow for a New England winter storm and moved on with their lives. Especially as the forecasts and warnings threw around (admittedly delightful) meteorological buzzwords like "bombogenesis," I was prepared for snow, but not lots of it.

It was snowing last night as we watched Here We Go Again (1942). It was snowing last night as we watched Zazie dans le métro (1960). It was snowing last night as we went to bed and I read Josephine Tey's The Franchise Affair (1948). Sometimes it was snowing vertically. It looked very impressive, sleeting sideways by in the sodium streetlight. It was snowing when we woke up.

This isn't the second coming of the Blizzard of '78, but there's a respectable two feet of snow in the drifts down there and I foresee lots of shoveling in my future. I can live with that.

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

The Tey I would have hurled against the wall if I weren't reading it on an iPad is Miss Pym Disposes.

Nine

[sovay]

The Tey I would have hurled against the wall if I weren't reading it on an iPad is Miss Pym Disposes.

I remember your review; I was glad I'd bounced.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Oh God yes. I occasionally think of that book in a sort of sustained spasm of hatred, for there was so much it got right, and for the first while was being a good women's-college novel, of which there are few beyond Gaudy Night. And Then. Loathing is too good a word.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I felt betrayed. It was like finding a scorpion--a deliberate--scorpion in my nice college crème brulée.

Nine