This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
Girl - time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable, hunty!
[Snaps fingers]
I sort of take this back, there's some good shit cookin' in this volume after all
Sudden body discombobulation while walking back from my run: Why did my mum just go past me?? I'd know those legs anywhere! Oh good, it's a mirror leaning against the side of a van.
All the most stomach-turning bits of the previous volumes are here almost as one. Only 650 pages to go!
The named "two men on opposite sides of the bus" meme. The smiling one looking at the view is labelled 'Beginning to read The Prisoner' while the sad one staring at the ugly grey rockface is labeled 'Being 40 pages into The Prisoner'
PROUST HIVE RISE UP
Started vol 5 this morning & yikes already; it's gonna be a bumpy ride
Personally I await the dark, gritty Professor Branestawn reboot with flashback narrative alluding to his past working as a weapons inventory in a Nazi POW camp
I too long for a Mrs Danvers origin story/prequel - but I also fear speaking it into existence will trigger Ryan Murphy's gay ESP, and there'll be a shitty Ratched-esque 6 part drama on Netflix starring Sarah Paulson before the day is out
She thinks he grew up going to Waitrose; he thinks he grew up going to Tesco. Is he trying to look more approachable to readers?? Is she trying to smear him?! Is she projecting, seeing him as a snob because of his packing preferences?! SO MANY QUESTIONS
Ich möchte Kanji lernen
Intelligent technology strikes again
Guys this Richard Siken book has stripped at least two layers of skin off me, and neither layer is the top one
A coffee cup with what looks like a teabag suspended in it, but actually it's a coffee filter bag, with ground coffee in it, and with little adhesive wings either side so it can hang suspended over your cup. A delight, a novelty, a piece of genius simple design.
Last of the single-cup drip coffee bags we bought back from Japan :( Embarrassing how delighted they have made me
"Tonight I'm joined by Tristram Carruthers, known on the street as Honky MC"
m.soundcloud.com/hazertazer/a...
Again, the actual "rule" he writes says: "If you have the knack of playing with exclaimers the way Tom Wolfe does, you can throw them in by the handful." So fly, my pretty! Be free! Be gay!
It's on DailyMotion in two parts, but despite the presence of Maureen O'Hara it is a BIG step down from the book. As Godden adaptations go we are alas not in Tottie/Black Narcissus territory
So.... this is distilled from an essay, more nuanced, where the rules aren't hard & fast. Rule 1, for e.g., he actually says:
"If it's only to create atmosphere, and not a character's reaction to the weather... the reader is apt to leaf ahead looking for people. There are exceptions."
No one wants to hear this, but they're already priming us millennials for the same route.
There's so much Insta content that's basically "remember how much better it was in the 90s? Remember the games, the anime, the book fair? You lost it all and didn't even get a house. And who took it? Them!"
I do feel 33% more insane than usual now. Also my Google searches are all for video clips of Are You Being Served while I try to research what lines like "At this time of day I like to give my pussy an airing" sound like when delivered by people with actual comic timing.
Sadly someone else's mother got to play Mrs Slocombe: mine was Customer Number 4, who lost a piece of chalk inside her skirt during a fitting, and giggled coquettishly as it was retrieved Mr Humphreys, who was - wait for it! - played by a woman in drag. Normal stuff on a Saturday afternoon
Also having never really seen the show, I hadn't realised just how much Dinnerladies worked from it. The pass-agg janitor is Stan, Mrs Slocomb is Dolly Bellfield, the doddery store owner is Mr Michael the doddery factory owner. Even Miss Brahms has a touch of Twink to her.
Interval of 'Are You Being Served', the local amateur performance (starring my mum). Act 1 ended with them all changing into Lederhosen and doing an oompah dance. Say what you want about 70s British farce, but I genuinely have NO idea where this is heading, plot-wise.
A huge compliment to be placed so close to a pet - and not just any pet, but a *current* pet.
Further adventures in homecoming: this framed word cluster of every important year, family member, pet, and place in my mum's life, a gift and a boon to anyone hoping to crack her passwords.
Finishing up Vol 4 of On the Calculation of Volume and still meditating on this particular detail
I have already begun it & it already has! I'm a massive Spark fan and the disappointment of the Stannard bio (which I remember buying in hardback, on the day of publication, at a time when I really didn't have hardback money) was how un-Sparkian it was in delivery. Yours really has her essence.
At 4pm today I realised I'd achieved nothing except go for a run and eat lunch, so I did about 2 hrs of work and made dinner, and NOBODY (except you, now) needs to know that I just listened to a Kate Bush playlist and went on my phone for half the day.
Pile o' books: Botchan by Natsume Soseki, Lowest Common Denominator by Pirrko Saisio, Solvej Balle Vol 4, An Army of Lovers by Helene Giannecchini, Discord by Jeremy Cooper, Like a Cat Loves a Bird by James Bailey, and Tales of the Suburbs by John Grindrod
Didn't need to spend the £75 book token in one go, but did it anywé, and no regrets *spits out cheroot, peels away on Harley*
I don't believe anyone's getting out. Linear-time life is so constrained by context & condition already, made within so many things we can't control, why would this be different?
But I also think she'll find a way back to the husband. Whether he'll know her, now she's ageing, is a different matter.
So relieved they're not publishing it on the 18th like they did with Vol3. Psychotic, bullying behavior. I bought it that morning, read it in a day, and spent half the night convinced I was now in the time loop too and would never see the 19th.