Newcastle is California
Feb. 27th, 2008 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceAh, if only...
There's actually a line in a pamphlet (1651, if I remember) that says "Correct your maps: Newcastle is Peru". Since when the line has been adopted and adapted more than once; Newcastle is apparently Lesbos, and also Fire Island, and elsewhere.
But last night, yay. Earthquake! This must be California!
I was in bed, like a good tired novelist ought to be; and wide awake and listening to the radio, as this particular tired novelist usually is. And the bed shook. For seconds at a time, and in a way that it never has shooken before. Enough, at any rate, for me to say "Okay, what just happened?" and have 'earthquake' on the list of possibles. Probably not favourite - 'subsidence' was also there, and the house has slumped before, its back wall positively bulges - but definitely there.
Unhappily, I cannot report how the cats reacted, as neither of them was with me at the time. And it wasn't - quite - dramatic or scary enough to get me out of bed.
*is phlegmatic*
(Why are you laughing?)
Still. Earthquake! Never had one of those before. One of my favourite young people was conceived in an earthquake - cue all necessary earth-moving jokes, to taste - but I wasn't myself there at the time. Now I was. It's a thing to tick off my life-list...
There's actually a line in a pamphlet (1651, if I remember) that says "Correct your maps: Newcastle is Peru". Since when the line has been adopted and adapted more than once; Newcastle is apparently Lesbos, and also Fire Island, and elsewhere.
But last night, yay. Earthquake! This must be California!
I was in bed, like a good tired novelist ought to be; and wide awake and listening to the radio, as this particular tired novelist usually is. And the bed shook. For seconds at a time, and in a way that it never has shooken before. Enough, at any rate, for me to say "Okay, what just happened?" and have 'earthquake' on the list of possibles. Probably not favourite - 'subsidence' was also there, and the house has slumped before, its back wall positively bulges - but definitely there.
Unhappily, I cannot report how the cats reacted, as neither of them was with me at the time. And it wasn't - quite - dramatic or scary enough to get me out of bed.
*is phlegmatic*
(Why are you laughing?)
Still. Earthquake! Never had one of those before. One of my favourite young people was conceived in an earthquake - cue all necessary earth-moving jokes, to taste - but I wasn't myself there at the time. Now I was. It's a thing to tick off my life-list...