I remember brighter days when all this was a mystery

[sovay]

In the last three or four days, to judge from the pile beside my bed, I have read Mary Renault's The Charioteer and The Friendly Young Ladies, Lawrence Durrell's Justine and Balthazar, Robert Graves' Goodbye To All That, David Mura's Angels for the Burning, and Aischylos' Oresteia (in Greek).

I cannot possibly predict what effect this combination will have on my writing, but I hope to God I like it.

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[kraada.livejournal.com]

Well, I must say that simultaneously reading "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "Mansfield Park" was quite amusing.

I read the one: death, intrigue and revenge. In the other, it's the height of action when a male character decides to pursue the protagonist.

However, it has certainly had a singular effect upon my writing. Mayhap it shall be naught but temporary -- though I am amused greatly by it, nonetheless.

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If nothing else, it's cemented "mayhap" and "naught" in your conversational vocabulary . . .