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jaeleslie at 04:57pm on 18/07/2004
jaeleslie at 04:57pm on 18/07/2004Today I have been sitting around reading and taking it easy. Seems lately I am one day busy and then one day collapsing. Where were we? I am working through an ever-lengthening list of things I would like to have done before I go to the calligraphy conference next week. Today it was mostly finishing library books, which strictly speaking was not on the list.
Maureen McHugh's Nekropolis is well worth reading if you are interested in my opinion of such things. Interesting view of a future Morocco, and reflection on the emotional conditions of human servitude. One might compare it to Grimwood's Eliskandria trilogy, but McHugh's style is less cyberpunk, more classically realist (a la Zola's Human Condition), and I mean that in a good way, although I realize tastes differ. Also Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is a moving autobiography of growing up in modern Iran, a very quick read in graphic novel form.
Did I tell you about the visit to Whitewater? last Thursday, oh dear probably not. Not one but two old friends to see. I found Victoria's new house and we were unable to catch up on everything although it was good to visit, after a couple of decades. We are involved in plotting the reunion in August of the half-dozen people we really want to see out of the whole high school, and she has big landscaping plans in the meantime. Then I also saw Barb, who is of course still sick, still on IV nourishment, down to 100 pounds or so and that includes the swelled-up leg. Beautiful drive down and back, and I picked up some sweet corn from a farm stand.
What else. Very elaborate plan yesterday had shifted from going to the play with the usual suspects to going to the play with a completely different posse and dinner afterward, which after a couple bottles of wine turned into surprise! a meeting (of the calligraphers guild revolutionary cabal). Saw Othello at American Players Theater. This is just the kind of place where I ought to hyperlink some further discussion. However there is chicken in the oven and two kinds of salad to make and green beans to prepare for steaming too so I will bid you all a fond au revoir.
Maureen McHugh's Nekropolis is well worth reading if you are interested in my opinion of such things. Interesting view of a future Morocco, and reflection on the emotional conditions of human servitude. One might compare it to Grimwood's Eliskandria trilogy, but McHugh's style is less cyberpunk, more classically realist (a la Zola's Human Condition), and I mean that in a good way, although I realize tastes differ. Also Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is a moving autobiography of growing up in modern Iran, a very quick read in graphic novel form.
Did I tell you about the visit to Whitewater? last Thursday, oh dear probably not. Not one but two old friends to see. I found Victoria's new house and we were unable to catch up on everything although it was good to visit, after a couple of decades. We are involved in plotting the reunion in August of the half-dozen people we really want to see out of the whole high school, and she has big landscaping plans in the meantime. Then I also saw Barb, who is of course still sick, still on IV nourishment, down to 100 pounds or so and that includes the swelled-up leg. Beautiful drive down and back, and I picked up some sweet corn from a farm stand.
What else. Very elaborate plan yesterday had shifted from going to the play with the usual suspects to going to the play with a completely different posse and dinner afterward, which after a couple bottles of wine turned into surprise! a meeting (of the calligraphers guild revolutionary cabal). Saw Othello at American Players Theater. This is just the kind of place where I ought to hyperlink some further discussion. However there is chicken in the oven and two kinds of salad to make and green beans to prepare for steaming too so I will bid you all a fond au revoir.
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