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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[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...

[sovay]

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.

[sovay]

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.