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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[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Wow, this I must read at some point.

[sovay]

Yes. You must. Honeybuzzard (also published as Shadow Dance), The Magic Toyshop, and Wise Children are my favorite Angela Carter novels; I love almost all her short fiction, but The Bloody Chamber especially. She will do things to your language.