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larryhammerObChewy: More on the visual language of manga from coffee_and_ink and telophase. Each post is like a close reading of a sonnet, only with a different kind of line.
ObVersy: One-third through Morris's The Earthly Paradise, the monotony is starting to bug me. That monotone is part of his point and goal; but still, his refusal to modulate beyond a narrow range would not be quite so tedious if it didn't include never using feminine rhyme -- even Spenser learned how to do that. At least he varies form, switching between pentameter couplets, tetrameter couplets, and rhyme royal. To my surprise, I'm liking the medieval tales more than the classical. Which makes sense, given Morris was very much the medievalist, and so unlikely to make, in those stories, mistakes equivalent to clothing Athena in a hauberk, or clothing footracers at all. I wonder about his thing for scary snaky women, though. Eventually, I hope, I'll have something coherent to say about the complex levels of frame.
ObWrity: With the long verse-thingy out to readers, I've been coupling at an Eros & Psyche tale as much for the relief of dashing off something less than one tenth the size as procrastinating on rewriting (and inverting) the novel's climax. But the latter niggles at me in a way that suggests it's ready to come out of the oven.
ObCranky: Athena in freakin' chain mail?!? That—! How—? I—... Okay, words fail me. Keeping Atalanta from running nekkid merely gets a raspberry for prudery. That, however, ...
ObLinky: Walkthrough hints for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game. So, like, I can finally get past the Bugblatter Beast.
---L.
ObVersy: One-third through Morris's The Earthly Paradise, the monotony is starting to bug me. That monotone is part of his point and goal; but still, his refusal to modulate beyond a narrow range would not be quite so tedious if it didn't include never using feminine rhyme -- even Spenser learned how to do that. At least he varies form, switching between pentameter couplets, tetrameter couplets, and rhyme royal. To my surprise, I'm liking the medieval tales more than the classical. Which makes sense, given Morris was very much the medievalist, and so unlikely to make, in those stories, mistakes equivalent to clothing Athena in a hauberk, or clothing footracers at all. I wonder about his thing for scary snaky women, though. Eventually, I hope, I'll have something coherent to say about the complex levels of frame.
ObWrity: With the long verse-thingy out to readers, I've been coupling at an Eros & Psyche tale as much for the relief of dashing off something less than one tenth the size as procrastinating on rewriting (and inverting) the novel's climax. But the latter niggles at me in a way that suggests it's ready to come out of the oven.
ObCranky: Athena in freakin' chain mail?!? That—! How—? I—... Okay, words fail me. Keeping Atalanta from running nekkid merely gets a raspberry for prudery. That, however, ...
ObLinky: Walkthrough hints for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game. So, like, I can finally get past the Bugblatter Beast.
---L.
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Date: 18 April 2005 04:19 pm (UTC)Heh heh. He said "coupling".
I've really got to get a life.
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Date: 19 April 2005 02:16 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 29 June 2005 08:12 pm (UTC)I'm still looking for a copy of Love is Enough.
---L.
Love is enough though the world be a-waning
Date: 29 June 2005 08:27 pm (UTC)---L.
the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining
Date: 30 June 2005 07:00 pm (UTC)---L.