Bury our hearts in the attic

[sovay]

Me: I'll just print out these poems in preparation for tomorrow night's weird fiction reading.

Printer: *prints all pages mirror-reversed except for the one whose title is in Yiddish*

Me: . . . so we have sheydim in the printer?

My mother: Why not?

(I showed her what had happened by holding the pages up in a mirror. She believes I should do my reading tomorrow from the reversed pages, using a mirror. I am, I think not unreasonably, a little concerned about what I might get if I do.)

Comments

[swan_tower]

That . . . is kind of wonderful. :-D

She believes I should do my reading tomorrow from the reversed pages, using a mirror. I am, I think not unreasonably, a little concerned about what I might get if I do.

Much like the time a friend of ours wrote something for a game by googling "black magic incantation" and then running what he found through Google Translate, this seems like it could be the premise for a short story, or a Monster of the Week episode from some urban fantasy series. :-)

[shewhomust]

*looks up sheydim*

It would explain quite a bit about the behaviour of printers...

[thisbluespirit]

Wow, that is impressive/scary, even for a printer!

I am, I think not unreasonably, a little concerned about what I might get if I do.

Could it make things worse? Might as well give it a try!

[ethelmay]

Well, that suggests a new reading of "A green thought in a green sheyd."

[cmcmck]

I generally blame trowies when my systems play up- I suspect they're related! :o)

[asakiyume]

This is so freaky and wonderful. The spirits are very near, and they feel like playing.

[ashlyme]

This is wonderful. I'm sorry about the reading, though.