Now I want spirits to enforce, art to enchant...

[leahbobet]

January 30, 2010 Progress Notes:

Untitled Shadow Unit DVD Extra

Words today: 1250.
Words total: 1250.
Reason for stopping: Draft.

Books in progress: Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest.
The glamour: Redying my hair (aka: Bathtub Smurf Massacre), workshop work, Ideo work, a bit of groceries, and the making of a maple bread. Okay, and I played a lot of Beyond Good and Evil. Bite me. It's Saturday.

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Not a lot to say this evening. I am torn between being unspeakably annoyed by the MacMillan/Amazon thing and its general needlessness, the General Winter Fatigue, and immense flattery over kelljones's review-slash-discussion of "The Parable of the Shower". kelljones is one of the more astute and careful readers I'm acquainted with. When she talks about a book, I listen. So I'm feeling kind of terrifically complimented about that.

All this adds up to a vague unbalancedness. Which I think I am going to take to bed, in hopes of knocking another of these DVD extras off my to do list tomorrow.

Comments

[saladinahmed.livejournal.com]

Good review of a very good story!

Glad you're clearly hooked on Hammett. Was just rereading and reloving the first paragraph of Red Harvest:

"I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit. I didn’t think anything of what he had done to the city’s name. Later I heard men who could manage their r’s give it the same pronunciation. I still didn’t see anything in it but the meaningless sort of humor that used to make richardsnary the thieves’ word for dictionary. A few years later I went to Personville and learned better."

Genius!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's when I mean when I say he had me at hello. *g* There is so much information packed into that paragraph, and in such an engaging way.

[kelljones.livejournal.com]

Aw, shucks. *blushes*

Although I would say less that I'm a careful reader than that when I read something that really catches my brain's attention, it becomes a full contact engagement until I've figured out what is so compelling. Less like detailed analysis and more like flinging oneself against something you can't quite see over and over until you know what the elephant looks like because you've run into every single part of it.

But normally I don't write about it. Only, no one seemed to be reading it the way I was.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Pfft. Is nothing but truth.

And it's a really interesting reading.

[kelljones.livejournal.com]

We'll have to chat sometime. ;) I often wonder what the world looks like outside of my brain...