Swingses and roundaboutses

[desperance]

The advantage of going to the Lit & Phil in the mornings to work: a thousand words before lunch. Reliably, consistently. Once I've gone that far in the rain, I'm not leaving until the coffee's all drunk and the pages are written.

The disadvantage: twenty-five quid before lunch. All too often, there or thereabouts. Today it was books and bread and fabulous teas. Almost all reduced, because I am a wonder shopper; sometimes people offer me discounts before I ask for them. I put that down to my particular virtues of strangeness and charm... [Hee. Do you see what I did there?]

Anyway. I am poorer and damper, my house is a little more full and so is my hard drive. The book is past three hundred pages, yay, and I'm nowhere near finished for the day.

Tonight we have a stage adaptation of Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber", which I am looking forward to more than somewhat; meantime, the end of this chapter dances in my eyes, and the beginning of the next. And possibly even some notion of a shape for the rest of the book. I have a last line, hurrah! I always like a destination, even though I hate a chart. I cannot share it, for it is not mine to share; you do know this book is pseudonymous, right? Besides which, it is the definition of a spoiler. My last lines are important; I have to work towards them, and so do you.

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[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I put that down to my particular virtues of strangeness and charm... [Hee. Do you see what I did there?]

I can see that you are up to something, so to speak. :P

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

[Hee. Do you see what I did there?]

Yes, what you did was to earworm me. With Hawkwind.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oops. I would apologise, but... Nah. I thoroughly approve of Hawkwind. Any band that can stretch its personnel from Lemmy to Michael Moorcock has my vote. Even if I never listen to 'em any more.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

What are the books, and where did you buy them?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Foodie books!! Georgio Locatelli's "Made in Italy", thirty quid's worth of hardback for a tenner; and Hugh Fearlessly EatsItAll, a collection of his foodie writings for a handful of coins. Both from the "new" discount cheapo bookplace, which is just exactly where the old discount cheapo bookplace used to be, up-escalator in Eldon Square.

[possumqueen.livejournal.com]

[Hee. Do you see what I did there?]

Sentence fragments and bogus punctuation for the win? :D

But this is LJ, not a freakin' university essay. This is a perfect place to toy with the standards of grammar, invent stupid punctuation, and generally do violent harm to the English language.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Actually I was thinking more of my quantum-mechanical puns (strangeness and charm being among the more curious attributes of particles), but you are right too, of course. Hell, sometimes I even look the other way when my friends leave an infinitive unsplut...

[possumqueen.livejournal.com]

Oh, now I get it: strange and charm reflect your quarky personality.

[Have you noticed that the more they study the quantum dimension, the more the universe seems to behave like Hogwart's School of Magic and Weird Shit You Would Never Believe? What's a strict materialist to do in the face of these inconvenient superstitions? :( ]

unsplut

With a rebel yell, grammatical anarchy! :D

[possumqueen.livejournal.com]

See, we are both correct in two places simultaneously.

How particular is that? ;)

[sovay]

I put that down to my particular virtues of strangeness and charm... [Hee. Do you see what I did there?]

How do you feel about truth and beauty?

Tonight we have a stage adaptation of Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber"

That is extremely cool. Where?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

How do you feel about truth and beauty?

Indistinguishable: that's as near as I can figure it.

That is extremely cool. Where?

Here in Newcastle. On Tyne. And it was, extremely cool: one of the smartest, most punchy things I've seen on stage in a while. Very technical, lots of sounds and visual elements; my friend said it was like an installation with live actors, which is as close as anything. There should be reviews on the web, I guess; I'm sorry it's a little far for you to come over.

[sovay]

Indistinguishable: that's as near as I can figure it.

How about up and down?

And it was, extremely cool: one of the smartest, most punchy things I've seen on stage in a while. Very technical, lots of sounds and visual elements; my friend said it was like an installation with live actors, which is as close as anything.

Awesome. Who did the adaptation?

There should be reviews on the web, I guess; I'm sorry it's a little far for you to come over.

I need a travel budget . . .

[desperance.livejournal.com]

How about up and down?

See now, I'd be much easier with up and down if there wasn't that rogue element out there that insists on top and bottom instead of truth and beauty: are they deliberately trying to confuse me, or what...?

Awesome. Who did the adaptation?

Bryony Lavery, with Neil Murray directing and Liv Lorent, uh, choreographing the sex...