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From the department of cool things happening to other people: Yoon Ha Lee has sold his hexarchate trilogy to Solaris Books. I have read the first two of these books and they are brilliant; I am deeply looking forward to the ability to file them on my shelf in print. Read "The Battle of Candle Arc" if you want an idea of the universe, along with the forthcoming stories "Calendrical Rot" and "Gamer's End," and then join me in waiting with poor patience until next June.

From the department of cool things happening to me:

ladymondegreen sent me a care package of selkie materials, including a DVD of Ondine (2009). Thank you so much! I look forward to rewatching it, which is as close to the sea as I can get right now.

It saddens me that neither of the extant film versions of Her Cardboard Lover (1928 and 1942) star Leslie Howard, who originated the eponymous leading man on Broadway opposite Jeanne Engels in 1927, but at least I have the Guardian's review of a production with him and Tallulah Bankhead. Looking for images of him in the role seems to have netted me a fashion profile. Works for me.

Tonight is my brother's belated birthday observed. We must leave the house before the storm hits and we drown while waiting for a bus.

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Selkie materials! Actually the list of potential selkie materials can be positively endless... Think Melusine...

I have a question to ask: do you know any active LJ community where a supernatural interpretation of "I Capture the Castle" by Dodi Smith would be welcome? I've read it recently and I have a lot of hunches and suspictions about "what really happened"... Pity Cassandra was to practical to suspect it :^))))))

Selkie materials! Actually the list of potential selkie materials can be positively endless... Think Melusine...

Huh. I don't think of her as a potential selkie so much as aligned with a similar mythos, but the shape-changing element is very powerful for me.

I have a question to ask: do you know any active LJ community where a supernatural interpretation of "I Capture the Castle" by Dodi Smith would be welcome?

Sadly, I don't! I do not belong to any LJ communities specifically centered around literature. I'm curious what your interpretation is, though.

I don't think of her as a potential selkie *

Well, neither do I, but the potential is here. Actually the genres seem different: most people learn about selkies from folktales and about Melusine from some mythology course (at least, I did). Yet, one man "selkie fishrewife" would be other man's Melusine.

I'll work a bit about my supernatural interpretation of "Castle" and send it to you as a personal message on LJ (actually Smith left broad hints (to say the least) in the text)).

Have you seen this? Maybe it qualifies as selkie material too http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1865505/

I would be interested! (Does the coachman's coat feature?)

Yes, I feel this coat is one of the hints (though it can be fully appreciated only later).The scene is so vivid and the people on the station are so convinced of the bear's existence that it feels like Rose really shiftes her shape (and if she is a bear then Cassandra would be a beaver as she had a beaver coat on). Then Neal kissed Rose and made her shapeshift back into a young woman... I guess this explanation just scratches the surface. The role of Aunt Millicent should be examined: why on earth did she give her nieces her wardrobe (and not only the furs)?

My general theory is that the castle wanted to help the family that restored it back into its medieval shape... and so the castle sends the Cottons to help them. The Cottons are either real human beings or some... things made by the castle to help the Cottons and then go away (actually, we only have Rose's word that she is living in California, it could be a ranch on Avalon...)

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