Life is skittles and life is beer

[sovay]

My poem "Ibis, Scribe" (Mythic Delirium #13) has been reprinted online as a featured poem, along with Constance Cooper's incredible "How the Sea People Mourn." Both are color-illustrated by Bob Snare. I don't read hieroglyphs, but I'm still very impressed with mine.

hans_the_bold has completed and submitted his dissertation. For this reason he hasn't been online in months, so I doubt he'll see this post for weeks (if at all), but he still gets a shout-out: he's worked so hard for his degree, and now I hope he'll start sleeping again. Samsuiluna's the man!

It's snowing. Why is it snowing? It was sunny and bright this morning, in the fragile upcoming-spring sort of way. Did I miss something—like, oh, summer?

Well, fortunately I like snow . . .

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[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Okay, I haven't looked at the poem above yet because I wanted first to read "On the Blindside" from the link you posted earlier. And, mmm, yes, I enjoyed reading your work again. One of the interesting things in "On the Blindside" (among many, of course) is the vision of the writer. The words on the page, this style that could be used in any other story as well, works to create the vision of the character. And I love the twist, what she learns, that this perception is hers and not Chion’s. Maybe it seems there’s a possibly close connection in this one between narrator and writer. Great how we feel how hard it would be to live like this, seeing things like this, yet how much we want artists to draw it for us, this writer to bring this vision to life. If I were to write down here, every image and line that struck me as breathtaking, as strikingly fresh, and basically amazing (“Milk poured over corn; constellations like the night sky turned inside out and over itself; urban skylines as looped and jagged as handwriting,” and every other description as well as insights into human motivations and complexities in thought), you’d have you’re whole story reprinted. One day I hope you put out a book that shows first drafts alongside second and third. But even that I don’t think would explain it all. There’s something remarkable in your vision. And congratulations! It’s this story that’s appearing in the Year’s Best, isn’t it? All your successes are well-deserved and especially good for us, your readers. And now onto poetry.

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"On the Blindside" will be reprinted in Rich Horton's Best of the Year, yes. Thank you. : )

And I love the twist, what she learns, that this perception is hers and not Chion’s. Maybe it seems there’s a possibly close connection in this one between narrator and writer. Great how we feel how hard it would be to live like this, seeing things like this, yet how much we want artists to draw it for us, this writer to bring this vision to life.

Just so long as it isn't us going crazy with the vision . . . ; )

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Bravo, hans_the_bold! May you follow him.

Nine

[sovay]

Shall forward your congratulations to him. Although I suspect he's currently unconscious.

I'm reading Antigone. You have no idea how much my mood is improved by Greek tragedy.

(And on the off chance that I'll have an opportunity to talk about retellings in the orals, I am also re-reading Anouilh.)

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

We read English translations of both in my USEM- it was fabulous. I'm So glad I picked that USEM: I wouldn't have taken such a class otherwise, most likely, and it was so much fun...

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Which USEM did you take? Mine was "Heaven, Hell, and the Space in Between" with Professor Swensen, which I adored; and it had a direct influence on several of my stories, too.

[larryhammer]

I want to be reading Antigone right now, but my brain is insisting on a diet of Elizabethan sonnet cycles right now.

---L.

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You could mix the two. I guarantee the results would be fascinating.

[larryhammer]

I'd rather mix Greek tragedy with Ovid, or at least Elizabethan Ovidiana.

---L.

[larryhammer]

Conga rats dancing all night in the streets for hans_the_bold!

Oh, and you rock too.

---L.

[sovay]

Heh. Thanks. He rocks more, right now. : )

[hans-the-bold.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks, everybody! It feels good to have it done.