Books and yarn. So, the essentials.

[leahbobet]

Out this afternoon/evening at the ChiZine Publications double-barrelled two-part book launch -- one at the bookstore, one at The Central on Markham -- wherein I saw a good bucket of people, conversed on subjects from publishing in general to the difference between swear words in Quebecois French and France French to how Lester B. Pearson is a superhero but nobody seems to realize it, and had a nice cup of tea (Tuscany Pear). In between these things was dinner with devils_exercise and Karen and friends of theirs who have the awesomest 13-year-old daughter, and a trip to Romni, where yarn fell into my bag and money fell out. Oops.

(This was technically only half a yarn accident: I had gone specifically for the bamboo stuff I bought and saw Fitted Knits there and had already decided I wanted it, so that was fine. It's the two skeins of Punta Yarns Merisock at $20 a skein that brings the accident into yarn accident. It was really, really blue. I couldn't help it. It just happened.)

Headed home because it was stuffy and I was getting a monster headache, but I seem to actually like and enjoy extended bouts of social these days. Go figure.

And now, going to make some hot chocolate, take something to stave off the headache, and see if I can't squeeze some words out. Stay tuned.

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[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

As promised/threatened, links to possible Enchanted Generation research material:

Will R. Bird's Ghosts Have Warm Hands is currently back in print.

Fairly detailed Wikipedia entry on Journey's End.

Period footage on Youtube:

Medical demo of patient suffering Encephalitis Lethargica, 1925
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lNVtUlroZc

The same channel has lots of shell-shock documentary footage, such as this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL5noVCpVKw&feature=channel

Artists making facial prosthetics for the "gueules-cassés" (may be hard to watch)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8epVBKiMmns

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Oh, fabulous. Thank you so much. :)

It was great to see you guys last night!