unshared interests

It's sort of an interesting meme. And I'm still bleary and not-all-there.

There's a definite category of Stuff To Do With Truepenny's Dissertation: early modern english, ghosts in shakespeare, lucius annaeus seneca, shakespeare in performance.

Seneca's unshared because I've given his full name, which partly, yes, is me showing off, but partly is because if you do a search on "Seneca" in the MLA bibliography, you get a large number of articles about Native Americans, and I didn't want to mislead anybody.

Early Modern English used to be a shared interest, but the other person must have disappeared or something.

Also in the same cluster of Academic Truepenny would be early modern women writers. Which is a legit interest of mine, though unrelated to my dissertation. What would be my second academic article, if I could ever be bothered to finish it, is about Lady Mary Wroth.

Then we have the mystery section: emma lathen, golden age detective fiction. It pains me that I am the only person interested in Emma Lathen, whereas I could be the 104th person to list Sue Grafton as an interest. "Golden Age Detective Fiction" is clearly just me being swank.

As is talpidae, which is the fancy word for "moles." Again, as with Seneca, I was trying to be clear about which kind of moles I meant.

laurel winter is unshared because wiscon chooses to call her "Laurie Winter," which is not the name she publishes under. I am pig-headed and refuse to change.

And then ocular albinism must just be too recherché. Again, me being specific to avoid confusion. I'm not albino, and I don't want to lay claim to a condition I don't have. It's a thing.

bookkeeping

salvage: 522 words

Plus I figured out at least the bare bones of a structure last night. I'm still not sure of all the banners that get hung on the scaffolding, but at least the scaffolding's there, and that makes me feel better.

If it's still raining after lunch, I'm staying home and doing laundry.

this should annoy Margaret Atwood ...

The Science Fiction Book Club is offering Oryx and Crake this month.

disassociation

I adore Stephen Booth. Have I mentioned that? He's the editor of the best edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets to be had for love or money, he wrote an absolutely fucking amazingly brillant book called King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, and Tragedy, and he begins an article on Hamlet thusly:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Hamlet as we have it--usually in a conservative conflation of the second quarto and first folio texts--is not really Hamlet.

He is the only literary critic I have ever read who can make me laugh out loud (and that isn't literal only because I remembered at the last possible nanosecond that I was in a library).

I met him once and was fangirly, inarticulate, and failed utterly to catch his attention in any way whatsoever. *sigh*

unshared interests, addendum

Missed algonquin cat. I said I was bleary.

Algonquin Cat is a children's-book-suitable-for-adults by Val Schaffner, copiously illustrated by Hilary Knight. I have loved it now for over twenty years, an honor shared only by The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh. And it's all about Shakespeare, too.

DLS: The Nine Tailors ?????

This is terrible. Apparently, I have nothing to say about The Nine Tailors. Which would explain why I haven't done a Sayers post since June 18th. It's not that I don't like The Nine Tailors--because I do. I think it's brilliant. And it's not that I don't want to talk about The Nine Tailors. It's just that I'm stumped.

Anyone care to make a suggestion? No questions are too large; no questions are too silly. Go for it!