My mojo. Let me show you it.

[desperance]

Well, of course I couldn't find my mojo; it wasn't here. It was - naturally! - just exactly where I had left it: in the Silence Room of the Lit & Phil.

In a swift rearrangement of my day, I took a flask of coffee and the LHP in there, and lo. Two pages later, this story is yielding up its marrow at last. I don't think it's any good, but that's okay; I'm allowed to write crap, so long as I'm writing.

Now I am home, though, and my thumb is hurting. I am going to swallow chemicals and a ham sammich (well, a smoked-loin-of-pork sammich, which I boiled it this morning; boiling I can manage, and frying too; chopping, not so much), and read Agatha Christie on old-style archaeology (it's research! it leads to steam-camels!!), and then watch wuxia pian because I can, because la_marquise_de enables me. (My enabler. Let me show you her.)

Comments

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Oooh, which Agatha Christie?

I am currently reading everything about archaeology I can. Research. Pure research.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

"Come, Tell Me How You Live: an archaeological memoir", as by Agatha Christie Mallowan. Still in print: the Lit & Phil seems to have bought a new copy just for me. They are good people.

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot. I have to conduct an archaeological expedition in Faerie without modern technologies. It's fantastic fun, but very strange at the same time.

And I always need details about older expeditions I can tweak. This is alternate history, so Troy is still there - only it was dug up in the 1920s by a Spaniard...

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, excellent! And you may well find this useful: I think it's mostly about the digs Max Mallowan was involved with in the '30s - Ur, and so forth - rather than his later exploration of Nimrud.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Always glad to be of service...

[freda-writes.livejournal.com]

Um, you don't happen to have seen my mojo around anywhere, do you? :-)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, lor'. Tell me this isn't yours I've picked up by mistake...?

[freda-writes.livejournal.com]

If, as you say, you are writing crap, then it quite possibly is!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hmmph. Don't you go dangling after compliments; you know I love your work. And trust me, this may or may not be crap, but it is certainly nothing like anything you do...

When's "Elfland" coming out? I have friends who neeeed it...

[freda-writes.livejournal.com]

Not dangling, just kidding. I'm a firm believer that getting *anything* on paper is a Good Thing.

I think Elfland is provisionally out next May - I'll let you know if this changes!

Archaeologia Aeliana

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

The Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne has a learned journal, Archaeologia Aeliana, which ... is the Society's journal. The first volume was published in 1822. It appeared intermittently at first, but for the last hundred years one volume has been published every year. The journal covers all aspects of the history of North-East England, ranging from archaeology (including excavation reports) and buildings to historical and documentary research, and from prehistory to the present. It has always been an important vehicle for the publication of research on Hadrian's Wall and the Romans in North-East England.

The Lit & Phil has early copies which might have what you are looking for. Also offprints, I can see they have a 1907 report of the excavations at Corstopitum (Corbridge) Alternatively the Antiquaries will have copies and our common friend Sue edits their Bulletin and may be able to help.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

However let us both remember to take it slowly...

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

Fee fie fo fum, I smell the typing of an Englishman.

Wasn't typing fiercely forbidden in order to let some thumb or other to rest and prosper a bit?

(Why am I even asking?)