bookkeeping
Jun. 6th, 2003 07:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyFor yesterday evening and the wee, strange hours of this morning:
DL(2) Ch. 5: 427 words
LS(4) Ch. ?: 112 words
Total: 539 words
Total for the period between 8 a.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. Friday: 971 words, 859 of them in DL Ch. 5.
Other work accomplished: Printed out Hamlet chapter and marked all the bits that belong together. Am now deeply perplexed as to how I'm going to get them that way. I am resisting the cut-up-the-ms-&-spread-it-all-over-the-floor solution (otherwise known as the Earbrass Method), because it's time-consuming, tedious, chaotic, and awkward, but I may not have a choice.
I also read Act I of Bussy D'Ambois. I had forgotten what a peculiar play it is--not in the sense that weird things happen, because in Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies, weird things are always happening, but that the characters are weird people and clearly not taking their medication. (Which also is not uncommon in this period and genre, so when I say the people in Bussy are weird, I mean WEIRD. Also sociopathic.)
Verdict: It's amazing how much I get done after 9 o'clock at night.
Comments: I don't know what happened with that snippet from LS. I don't think I exactly dreamed it, but I know I dreamed about writing it, and revising it, although when I staggered out of bed and turned on the computer this morning, there were only one or two phrases that I could remember with any exactitude. The passage was a lot longer in my dream. *sigh*
LS is also weird (although not in the same was as Bussy D'Ambois, thank goodness). It's the first time I've ever written bits of dialogue or action out of sequence. Of course, I'm doing it this way because I'm still writing DL, and if I waited and did everything in order for LS, I'd end up in that agonizing situation where you know you had an idea for how this scene ought to play, and you know it was a good idea, but you cannot remember the idea itself. So I'm writing snippets when I get them, and we'll see what happens when I actually get to the point of stringing them together.
DL(2) Ch. 5: 427 words
LS(4) Ch. ?: 112 words
Total: 539 words
Total for the period between 8 a.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. Friday: 971 words, 859 of them in DL Ch. 5.
Other work accomplished: Printed out Hamlet chapter and marked all the bits that belong together. Am now deeply perplexed as to how I'm going to get them that way. I am resisting the cut-up-the-ms-&-spread-it-all-over-the-floor solution (otherwise known as the Earbrass Method), because it's time-consuming, tedious, chaotic, and awkward, but I may not have a choice.
I also read Act I of Bussy D'Ambois. I had forgotten what a peculiar play it is--not in the sense that weird things happen, because in Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies, weird things are always happening, but that the characters are weird people and clearly not taking their medication. (Which also is not uncommon in this period and genre, so when I say the people in Bussy are weird, I mean WEIRD. Also sociopathic.)
Verdict: It's amazing how much I get done after 9 o'clock at night.
Comments: I don't know what happened with that snippet from LS. I don't think I exactly dreamed it, but I know I dreamed about writing it, and revising it, although when I staggered out of bed and turned on the computer this morning, there were only one or two phrases that I could remember with any exactitude. The passage was a lot longer in my dream. *sigh*
LS is also weird (although not in the same was as Bussy D'Ambois, thank goodness). It's the first time I've ever written bits of dialogue or action out of sequence. Of course, I'm doing it this way because I'm still writing DL, and if I waited and did everything in order for LS, I'd end up in that agonizing situation where you know you had an idea for how this scene ought to play, and you know it was a good idea, but you cannot remember the idea itself. So I'm writing snippets when I get them, and we'll see what happens when I actually get to the point of stringing them together.
What finally prompted me to say hi...
Date: 2003-06-07 03:23 pm (UTC)...Were your remarks on _Bussy D'Ambois_. Yes, it's a very strange play. You ought to post some of your thoughts on it here, as I'm sure some of your readers know it. (Is it that or _Dr. Faustus_ that has the joke about calling spirits from the vasty deeps?)
I first encountered it in a delightful class on Jacobean drama, where it proved to be the most controversial play out of all the ones we read. Basically, the class was split right down the middle over whether Bussy was an ubermensch or a menace to society. When the professor indicated that he took the latter view, a very young Mohawked man, who had never once said anything in class before, leaped to his feet with a passionate speech in Bussy's defense: "He's not a psychopath, he's a _hero_ and nobody understands him!"
Any play that can dig that sort of response out of the least likely characters is due for a revival.
Re: What finally prompted me to say hi...
Date: 2003-06-07 03:53 pm (UTC)*waves*
Glad you're enjoying.
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GLENDOWER: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
HOTSPUR:Why, so can I, or so can any man.
But will they come when you do call for them?
--1 Henry IV
I love that exchange.
I don't know if I'll have any coherent thoughts on Bussy D'Ambois, beyond whatever I say about it in my dissertation chapter, but rest assured that if I have thoughts, I'll post 'em.
Bussy's a menace. But so is everybody else.
Oops
Date: 2003-06-07 03:23 pm (UTC)Sincerely,
Rachel Brown