Caution: stairs may go down as well as up
Nov. 25th, 2009 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceUp: smoked prawns! in my noodles!
Down: I fell over. On my stairs. Stone-cold sober, too.
Up: I spent yesterday evening with Bryan and Mary, who are two of my favourite people on the planet. Also, I got to proofread Grandville Mon Amour...
Down: I am extremely ouchie, and cannot get a physio appointment till the end of the year. Literally, Dec 31st. *swallows more pills*
Up: This, from a review of Wilde Stories: “In the Night Street Baths” by Chaz Brenchley explores the awkwardness that comes when one doesn’t entirely belong through the story of two palace eunuchs, one human and one dwarf, spending a night together in the city baths in the neighborhood, where people have mutated into anthropomorphic caricatures. I enjoyed how the imperfect pieces fell together and clicked in this setting that is broken, off-beat and so different from our world.
[This and other highlighted stories] demand from the reader ... additional rereads to understand and decipher the layers and layers of thought and symbols wrapped around the stories told.
Down: The world is all that is the case. I have lifted up mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help, and the hills are empty.
PS - bonus! fourth down: oh noes! Mac's Best Toy Ever is a little plastic pig that came all the way from Australia, and he has lost it down a hole beneath the floorboards. As there are no smoked prawns left, he is inconsolable.
Down: I fell over. On my stairs. Stone-cold sober, too.
Up: I spent yesterday evening with Bryan and Mary, who are two of my favourite people on the planet. Also, I got to proofread Grandville Mon Amour...
Down: I am extremely ouchie, and cannot get a physio appointment till the end of the year. Literally, Dec 31st. *swallows more pills*
Up: This, from a review of Wilde Stories: “In the Night Street Baths” by Chaz Brenchley explores the awkwardness that comes when one doesn’t entirely belong through the story of two palace eunuchs, one human and one dwarf, spending a night together in the city baths in the neighborhood, where people have mutated into anthropomorphic caricatures. I enjoyed how the imperfect pieces fell together and clicked in this setting that is broken, off-beat and so different from our world.
[This and other highlighted stories] demand from the reader ... additional rereads to understand and decipher the layers and layers of thought and symbols wrapped around the stories told.
Down: The world is all that is the case. I have lifted up mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help, and the hills are empty.
PS - bonus! fourth down: oh noes! Mac's Best Toy Ever is a little plastic pig that came all the way from Australia, and he has lost it down a hole beneath the floorboards. As there are no smoked prawns left, he is inconsolable.