First, I’m quite looking forward to our planned chat tonight, but I entirely will understand if you’ve found yourself at the end of the week wanting nothing more than solitude, a good book, and a great deal of sleep. Simply say the word, and we will try again another time.
On Peter and Wendy - having read it, I quite see what you mean, about Raz being cast as Peter, and me as Wendy. Most perceptive of you to spot so on such short acquaintance that the map and the territory are not the same. I do have plenty of comment (took notes, even!), but I will save that for in person. And yet, for all the places that made my hackles rise in the text, and a few places where I had to put it down for a time, there are some really lovely bits, aren’t there?
I have also dusted the cobwebs (rather literally, as I’ve not touched them in years) off my texts on Chinese astronomy and related arithmancy, and I shall come prepared for that discussion as well. (I am not going to haul all the references with me, but at least I can make a start for you.)
Finally, I forgot to ask: did you find the Poole’s Jelly Gums of use? I have given in to the inevitable and ordered a case for easy dispersal at need. While I’m grateful that Dolores is currently talking to everyone but me, I do have all the sympathy in the world. (And on that, I have the disconcerting feeling she’s merely trying to decide how to make nice and thence make many suggestions or request my help. Probably both.)
Private message to Antosha
First, I’m quite looking forward to our planned chat tonight, but I entirely will understand if you’ve found yourself at the end of the week wanting nothing more than solitude, a good book, and a great deal of sleep. Simply say the word, and we will try again another time.
On Peter and Wendy - having read it, I quite see what you mean, about Raz being cast as Peter, and me as Wendy. Most perceptive of you to spot so on such short acquaintance that the map and the territory are not the same. I do have plenty of comment (took notes, even!), but I will save that for in person. And yet, for all the places that made my hackles rise in the text, and a few places where I had to put it down for a time, there are some really lovely bits, aren’t there?
I have also dusted the cobwebs (rather literally, as I’ve not touched them in years) off my texts on Chinese astronomy and related arithmancy, and I shall come prepared for that discussion as well. (I am not going to haul all the references with me, but at least I can make a start for you.)
Finally, I forgot to ask: did you find the Poole’s Jelly Gums of use? I have given in to the inevitable and ordered a case for easy dispersal at need. While I’m grateful that Dolores is currently talking to everyone but me, I do have all the sympathy in the world. (And on that, I have the disconcerting feeling she’s merely trying to decide how to make nice and thence make many suggestions or request my help. Probably both.)
Still contemplating my reading
A.