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[freckles_and_doubt]

I have to say thank-you to everyone for the expressions of sympathy over Fishie. I've very much appreciated it.

I'm more or less buried in marking at the moment. The latest batch was Lewis Carroll, which has led to an interestingly irreverent comparison. In Looking Glass Alice has to help Tweedledum and Tweedledee prepare for their battle:

...the two brothers ... returned in a moment with their arms full of things - such as bolsters, blankets, hearth-rugs, tablecloths, dish-covers and coal-scuttles. "I hope you're a good hand at pinning and tying things?" Tweedledum remarked. "Every one of these things has to go on, somehow or other."
Alice said afterwards she had never seen such a fuss made about anything in her life - the way those two bustled about - and the quantity of things they put on - and the trouble they gave her in tying strings and fastening buttons - "Really they'll be more like bundles of old clothes than anything else, by the time they're ready!" she said to herself...

I am reminded of nothing so much as SCA heavy fighting.



Department of Random Linkery: Stephen Fry blogs! Recking not the common ways of bloggery, he writes extended essays, beautifully and humanly, a persona both intelligent and empathetic. His latest one on fame is interesting: one has to like a celebrity who's aware of "how much courage it takes for a member of the public to approach a famous person".

Last Night I Dreamed: another of those mad fantasy quests, this time a sort of computer-game scenario in which I was hunting treasure with the aid of a magic sword/torch thingy whose beam revealed enchanted items. I ended up rescuing an imprisoned thunder god from a cellar beneath a shack inhabited by thieves. While I fled with the god my allies blew up the shack, causing a giant fireball that sent tongues of flame to chase us across the countryside. Fortunately the god could summon water, and we survived.

The night before there were huge caverns in a mountain, inhabited by goblins and their slaves, from whom I had to escape. I suspect this may all be about the Horrible Pile of Marking...

Comments

Last Night I Dreamed

[schedule5.livejournal.com]

Ahh - I used to have a truly spectacular dream involving a thunder god, me, and a shack...(picture me with a wistful, nostalgic gleam here :D ).

Re: Last Night I Dreamed

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Thunder gods and their great big hammers...

From your phrasing, it sounds as though this was a recurring dream? Wish I had my subconscious whipped to give me spectacular recurring dreams. The only recurring ones I've ever had a are deeply, deeply weird, even for me.

Re: Last Night I Dreamed

[schedule5.livejournal.com]

Definitely recurring. But most of my recurring dreams are indeed more on the wierd, nightmarish side of the dream spectrum, instead of the multiple... recurring side.

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

Re the dream: If it was a computer game, was it pixelated? Were you looking straight down long corridors? Were the conversations stilted and formulaic? Did you pick your action from glowing words in front of you?

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

My computer game dreams seem to be high-res Oblivion-graphic quality. Landscapes, not corridors. The narrative mechanisms are computer-game, but not the visual ones, if that makes sense. I was following quests and picking up stuff, but otherwise it was reality. Good special effects on the fireball, though.

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

Oh look, Stephen Fry uses wordpress!

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I actually really enjoy the way he's blogging: he hasn't subscribed to the whole set of cultural conventions around look, length or anything else. He has things to say, and he employs just as much of the technology as he needs to say them. So, yes, ugly and obviously Wordpressy blog, but in a feisty, individualistic way. Go Stephen Fry!

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

Using wordpress isn't a bad thing. Wordpress is great. We use it, e.g. here. It's so simple that you can just get in and go, and it does lots out of the box - RSS feeds and all. Or you can use loads of plugins or themes, or even program with it if you know PHP.

Mr Fry has clearly just got in and gone, and that's no bad thing.

[herne-kzn.livejournal.com]

Quite. Thanks for posting this.