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- 1: “my heart is full of love and desire for you! / so come on down and do what you’ve got to do!”
- 2: “they say this cat is a bad mutha— (shut yo’ mouth!) / i’m talkin’ ’bout shaft (then we can dig it)”
- 3: “(we better) stop / children, what’s that sound? / everybody look what’s going down”
- 4: “i would search everywhere / just to hear your call / and walk upon stranger roads than this one”
- 5: “what’s it all for / you better live now / before the grim reaper come knocking on your door”
- 6: “you’re the priestess i must confess / those little red panties they pass the test”
- 7: “like a wire on a spool i keep on unrolling / a single thread that seems to unwind and unwind”
- 8: “the air so heavy and dry/ strange voices are saying (what do they say)/ things i can’t understand”
- 9: “the moon and the stars / were the gifts you gave / to the dark, and the endless skies”
- 10: “got to be good-looking because he’s so hard to see / come together right now over me”
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Date: 17 March 2020 08:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 17 March 2020 10:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 17 March 2020 08:04 pm (UTC)One can see the influence of all that classical poetry. :)
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Date: 17 March 2020 08:15 pm (UTC)(BTW, quite enjoyed Mist. Thankee for the time away!)
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Date: 17 March 2020 08:19 pm (UTC)People seem to be split on Mist; it's reassuring to add another name to the "liked it" column.
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Date: 17 March 2020 08:28 pm (UTC)It is even more dependent on knowledge, preferably fresh, of previous books, than even #3. Not necessarily a bad thing, mind, but A Thing about it. The D-Day countdown was Very Helpful both for orientation and maintaining tension.
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Date: 17 March 2020 09:08 pm (UTC)I am glad the countdown worked!
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Date: 17 March 2020 09:15 pm (UTC)The thought came to me while reading is that these have the structural feel of later Aubrey-Maturin books.
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Date: 17 March 2020 11:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 17 March 2020 09:23 pm (UTC)Our kids are on "spring break" until April, although online learning from the district may start sooner. We will see. Soon I will likely start heavily encouraging more IXL and less Roblox.
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Date: 17 March 2020 10:00 pm (UTC)I had morning shift, today, but I hear Roblox in the other room now, which means Eaglet has finished homeschoolwork for the day. (They chose to do their daily writing assignment in Mandarin, to my delighted surprise. They still had to do Mandarin Matrix though.) (If the kids are interested in friending, want to exchange usernames?)
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Date: 18 March 2020 03:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 18 March 2020 01:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 18 March 2020 09:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 18 March 2020 06:07 am (UTC)Today was Reason's second day. Schools in this area are likely to be closed through June.
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Date: 18 March 2020 04:27 pm (UTC)How's Reason and her teachers holding up?
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Date: 19 March 2020 03:35 am (UTC)Reason and I are fine so far. :) Just me. After finishing the paper homework packet, she lugged a workbook to the kitchen table from the pile I'd bought last weekend. Quest for normalcy: visible. :/