That two girls are too many, three's a crowd, and four you're dead

[sovay]

My sleep schedule has gone so far off the rails, I'm not even sure what time zone I'm in anymore, but I don't think it's the one I live in.

Yesterday I tried to take a sort of mental health break, finishing my work in the afternoon and then spending the rest of the day reading Henry Green's Back (1946) and watching John Cromwell's Caged (1950) and a serial and a half of Sapphire & Steel (1979–82) with an interlude of returning books to the library and making rice pudding. I would like to write about all of these things; they were differently great. I may just stare at more Sapphire & Steel instead.

I have decided that my personal best mode of dealing with white supremacists going around invoking Odin as a hate symbol and generally misunderstanding the Vikings is to go around invoking Loki as a queer symbol and talking a lot more about seiðr.

Courtesy of moon_custafer: I may be in the wrong country to catch a theatrical screening of Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016) tomorrow night (watching movies for people's yahrzeits is just as valid as for their birthdays), but it looks like it will be coming to TCM. Hurrah.

P.S. Has anybody on this friendlist seen the 1977–78 ITV adaptation of Joan Aiken's Midnight Is a Place (1976)? I just discovered it exists; I like its setting of "Denzil's Song" and it's got David Collings, but I can't tell anything else about it except that it seems to have aged up Anna-Marie.

Comments

[rydra_wong]

Sapphire and Steel! (That is all I have to say at this level of caffeination.)

[sovay]

Sapphire and Steel! (That is all I have to say at this level of caffeination.)

I am enjoying it immensely. Also, I hoped someone I knew would have an icon with Silver. (For various reasons, I saw the third serial first. For obvious reasons, I imprinted.)

[rydra_wong]

I noted the mention of David Collings, and he is so marvellous as Silver.

*shows off different Sapphire and Steel icon*

[ashlyme]

S & S is one of my biggest loves and I admire your icons.

[rydra_wong]

I did not make them and can claim no credit for them! They're by oltha_heri.

And -- Ashlyme? As in Viriconium?

[ashlyme]

Yep. Another love of mine!

[rydra_wong]

... are you familiar with Harrison's Climbers?

(There is an argument to be made that encountering Viriconium at a impressionable age and then following it to Climbers is one of the subterranean mental rivers which explains why a decade or two later I ended up becoming a climber. And now I live part-time on the turf of that book.)

[ashlyme]

Oh God, that's my favourite nongenre novel. I've read that... Well, the fingers of both hands (at least) in counting. I'm a deep enough Harrison fan that I've used another character from In Viriconium as a user name on a dating site...

I've added you, if that's okay?

[rydra_wong]

Absolutely!

In case you haven't seen them, have some links to photos of Harrison climbing and (in the first one) looking remarkably like Mirror-verse Spock:

https://ambientehotel.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/mike-climb001.jpg
https://ambientehotel.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/climbers1.jpg

Appropriately enough, today I was climbing up on Stanage Edge (from which you can still see the cement works in Hope).

[ashlyme]

*looking remarkably like Mirror-verse Spock:*

Dear Lord, you're not wrong. I'm used to him with the ponytail!

[sovay]

looking remarkably like Mirror-verse Spock

Whoa.

[rydra_wong]

This film about solo-ing, work and escape in the industrial/post-industrial north is not un-related, I think (though not fully Harrisonian):

Lines of Flight

[sovay]

And now I live part-time on the turf of that book.

Has it changed much since the book?

[rydra_wong]

I am now re-reading (as I've not reread it since I've actually lived in that area for a while) with a view to reporting back.