intellectual

[freckles_and_doubt]

I'm feeling all intellectual, like. There is a small rampart of books around my desk, all of them veritable tomes on postmodernism, feminism and Angela Carter. I had forgotten how truly weird some of Carter's writing is. Amazing lady. But hell to compress into a thousand words for an encyclopedia entry. George Macdonald was a lot easier, I suppose because my state of triumphant atheism means I tend to patronise him rigid for fluffy religious wossname. Very energising, a feeling of superiority. Angela Carter, on the other hand, scares me to death. Intellectual, yes, but I also have a headache. (The current state of horrible heatwave isn't helping. Damn Cape Town and all its sunny ilk!)

Speaking of death: strawberryfrog, please be very careful. I had a long, involved and rather distressing dream last night in which you were killed after a high-speed car-chase around a big, black lake. I spent unpleasant portions of the night trying unavailingly to phone all sorts of people to break the news to them. Please avoid all high-speed cars and big black lakes for a while. Although, to be honest, such visions are less likely to be genuine psychic wossname than over-vivid indigestion dreams from the excellent curry supplied last night by wolverine_nun and her husband. The mad social whirl isn't stopping: Monday night was jo&stv's killer Thai, this time with benefit of genuine Thai basil, a plant of which I discovered and gifted them for Christmas. It now resides in their living room, inhabited, as a sort of involuntary bonus, by a miniature green mantis who has been christened Barbarella by the proud owners, on the grounds that it has a head and therefore must be a female. (I should mention that a large quantity of margarita accompanied Monday night's dinner. Never name pets while drunk). Tomorrow night is book club. I may give up food for the weekend.

Comments

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

I shall take note. I shall avoid cars for the now (not that I have much to do with them here anyway) and lakes in general (ditto). Unfortunately I cannot avoid high speed transport in general (incipient trip to SA) or cars (general transport during said trip). I shall also lay off snowboarding on real snow until next winter.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten you were heading CT-wards - cool! When? Do not neglect to phone me or something when you're here.

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

Phone? Bah, that can be done from any country.
Feb 9th for a week or so.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Well, phone as a prelude to some kind of get-together, with wine, as is traditional for temporarily returning exiles...

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

No, it's a short visit, so military precision is required.