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.