Yup. Still sick.

It's settled down into a sort of low-level crud: congested sinuses, aches & pains, and a general sense of wobbliness if I try to do anything more exciting than lie in bed and read.

(You'll note that I'm not letting that keep me away from the computer.)

Since I know better than to try to work when I feel like this, I've gone on a non-fiction kick, focusing on the Victorians: Phyllis Rose, Parallel Lives, Bram Djikstra, Idols of Perversity (a reread), and I'm now working on Haight's biography of George Eliot, which I borrowed from the charming and talented heres_luck, because she is nice like that. There's something very comforting about reading non-fiction I don't have to take notes on.

And I find it funny and touching and sad that George Eliot was, all unintending, a home-wrecker.

Speaking of George Eliot ...

Does anyone else, when they read The Mill on the Floss,

( spoiler )

GIP!

heres_luck rocketh like a rocking thing, yea verily.

For she hath made me a mink icon.

(Actually, she made me several, and they are all the coolest. Probably there will be mink-rotation for a while.)

I am pleased and amused and delighted.

DLS: Gaudy Night 1

Previous DLS posts: Concerning Lord Peter Wimsey, and Ralph Lynn, the Hon. Freddy Arbuthnot, Miss Katharine Alexandra Climpson, media whimsies, music, aspidistra & ampelopsis, Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, Unnatural Death, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club 1 & 2, Strong Poison, The Five Red Herrings, Have His Carcase 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7, Murder Must Advertise, The Nine Tailors 1, 2, & 3.

Still feeling ill, headachy, and fretful. Need a break from George Eliot. But I've finally figured out where to start talking about Gaudy Night. I don't know how coherent or insightful this is going to be, but it gives me something to do.

Spoilers for the whole book.

( Harriet Vane sat at her writing-table and stared out into Mecklenburg Square. )

I am open to suggestions for other topics in relation to GN. I feel like I've only scratched the surface.

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WORKS CITED
Sayers, Dorothy L. Gaudy Night. 1936. New York: Perennial Library-Harper & Row, Publishers, n.d.