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eredien"And he Built a Crooked House," Robert Heinlein.
A fun little story about architecture and space-time.
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It's somehow apropos that the quote for today is about architecture that doesn't, technically, exist.
So I was watching Wolf's Rain the other day. Before bed.
(I know I shouldn't do that, but I was anime-starved and desperately needing something that would make me feel and think. But mostly feel.)
I watched episodes 19-24, and then realized that though the series obviously had not ended by that point, I had run out of episodes. Rabidfangurl, you're going to run into this problem, too--I didn't realize when I burned you the disks I was short a few episodes.
So, is it a 26-episode series? If so, why do I have only 24?
I have been told by friends that it is best to skip the last--what is it, four or two, episodes of the series. Is this true? Should I stop now?
Can I stop at this point? I don't think so. The story isn't finished yet, and I can feel it moving towards its own ending.
1.) I dealt with the return of the owl decently, as best as I could when its head popped up onscreen. Small cringing. It at least is used as a constant symbol of what it is, and I can deal with that.
2.) The episode with the lynx was fascinating from both a species-interaction point of view, and in the way it stated that "most people settle for living in that world" as the truth it is.
3.) I still cannot figure out if they see each other as human or as wolf, or when. When they are all sitting around the fire as Kiba heals, there's definitely three human and one wolf there, but at other times, one has to wonder.
4.) The city I see in dreams has the same effect on me as it does on Hige; though the architecture inside is different from that portrayed in the show, I am both fascinated and repelled by that place and know all of its turnings in advance. The thing I had the hardest time dealing with, in fact, was the sequence where Hige finds the elevator. I had to keep telling myself, "it's ok; it will not shoot through the glass roof."
5.) I study Russian. Why did I think that Hige's collar had an x on it, instead of a "X" or Russian H? I was trying to translate the Book of the Moon, and never thought of the obvious.
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Enough of Wolf's Rain.
Rush-That-Speaks, I am going to send you an email with a picture; so check your email.
Syona Keleste, I got red hair dye!
Spooniest, can you please tell Sei to resend her long email--I never recieved it--and that I got rasperry leaves for her for tea and will mail them to her sometime this week? Thank you.
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I went to a renfaire yesterday. It was fun. I quit the evil phone job (yay!). I still have not heard back from the people I sent my story out to.
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Lotusblosm loaned me a Connie Willis short-story collection the other day. The more I read her stuff, the more little things I notice, the more I enjoy it, the more it changes me, and the more I admire her amazing talent as a writer. Save for John Crowley, I have never seen someone so adept in the way they can use perfect individual phrases of a paragraph that build up to form an emotion and unspoken thought.
Impossible Things, the name of the anthology, is a title that has become personally meaningful to me. Two of the stories, simply told things, helped me heal wounds and scars I'd been trying to forget for years.
"The Last of the Winnebagos" is about the extinction of dogs. In some ways, it is about just that, and that is and would have been enough to deal with just by itself. But it is also about the ways that people deal with love.
I don't know how much you know about parvovirus, aka parvo. It usually kills puppies, and is very contagious and very messy. When I worked at the veterinarian's in highschool, I came into work one day to find a puppy dead of it, with its silken ear lying in a puddle of its own bloody feces. It is not a beautiful disease and it breaks the heart of everyone who deals with it.
I doubt that Willis was trying to make a statement about parvo to that effect, even though a superparvo appears as part of the plotline of that story. But I finally got the idea that it was ok to have my heart a little broken by that job, and that it was ok to have some places where the edges didn't meet anymore when I patched it back together.
The second story, "Chance," just happened to have two of the major themes of my life running through it and colliding in a way I never thought I would see outside of my own head. The first theme is, "what if I hadn't done what I did to a friend? I would have been different, better perhaps, and now I blame myself for it." The second theme is a complete and total psychological need to rescue drowning worms, and a complete and total psychological inability to do so.
I am healed from her:
Writing with the pen of God
threw me back to grass.
Finally.
My email has changed due to circumstances beyond my control. I am now at lycos.com instead of eudoramail.com. Please change your address books accordingly.
A fun little story about architecture and space-time.
--
It's somehow apropos that the quote for today is about architecture that doesn't, technically, exist.
So I was watching Wolf's Rain the other day. Before bed.
(I know I shouldn't do that, but I was anime-starved and desperately needing something that would make me feel and think. But mostly feel.)
I watched episodes 19-24, and then realized that though the series obviously had not ended by that point, I had run out of episodes. Rabidfangurl, you're going to run into this problem, too--I didn't realize when I burned you the disks I was short a few episodes.
So, is it a 26-episode series? If so, why do I have only 24?
I have been told by friends that it is best to skip the last--what is it, four or two, episodes of the series. Is this true? Should I stop now?
Can I stop at this point? I don't think so. The story isn't finished yet, and I can feel it moving towards its own ending.
1.) I dealt with the return of the owl decently, as best as I could when its head popped up onscreen. Small cringing. It at least is used as a constant symbol of what it is, and I can deal with that.
2.) The episode with the lynx was fascinating from both a species-interaction point of view, and in the way it stated that "most people settle for living in that world" as the truth it is.
3.) I still cannot figure out if they see each other as human or as wolf, or when. When they are all sitting around the fire as Kiba heals, there's definitely three human and one wolf there, but at other times, one has to wonder.
4.) The city I see in dreams has the same effect on me as it does on Hige; though the architecture inside is different from that portrayed in the show, I am both fascinated and repelled by that place and know all of its turnings in advance. The thing I had the hardest time dealing with, in fact, was the sequence where Hige finds the elevator. I had to keep telling myself, "it's ok; it will not shoot through the glass roof."
5.) I study Russian. Why did I think that Hige's collar had an x on it, instead of a "X" or Russian H? I was trying to translate the Book of the Moon, and never thought of the obvious.
--
Enough of Wolf's Rain.
Rush-That-Speaks, I am going to send you an email with a picture; so check your email.
Syona Keleste, I got red hair dye!
Spooniest, can you please tell Sei to resend her long email--I never recieved it--and that I got rasperry leaves for her for tea and will mail them to her sometime this week? Thank you.
--
I went to a renfaire yesterday. It was fun. I quit the evil phone job (yay!). I still have not heard back from the people I sent my story out to.
--
Lotusblosm loaned me a Connie Willis short-story collection the other day. The more I read her stuff, the more little things I notice, the more I enjoy it, the more it changes me, and the more I admire her amazing talent as a writer. Save for John Crowley, I have never seen someone so adept in the way they can use perfect individual phrases of a paragraph that build up to form an emotion and unspoken thought.
Impossible Things, the name of the anthology, is a title that has become personally meaningful to me. Two of the stories, simply told things, helped me heal wounds and scars I'd been trying to forget for years.
"The Last of the Winnebagos" is about the extinction of dogs. In some ways, it is about just that, and that is and would have been enough to deal with just by itself. But it is also about the ways that people deal with love.
I don't know how much you know about parvovirus, aka parvo. It usually kills puppies, and is very contagious and very messy. When I worked at the veterinarian's in highschool, I came into work one day to find a puppy dead of it, with its silken ear lying in a puddle of its own bloody feces. It is not a beautiful disease and it breaks the heart of everyone who deals with it.
I doubt that Willis was trying to make a statement about parvo to that effect, even though a superparvo appears as part of the plotline of that story. But I finally got the idea that it was ok to have my heart a little broken by that job, and that it was ok to have some places where the edges didn't meet anymore when I patched it back together.
The second story, "Chance," just happened to have two of the major themes of my life running through it and colliding in a way I never thought I would see outside of my own head. The first theme is, "what if I hadn't done what I did to a friend? I would have been different, better perhaps, and now I blame myself for it." The second theme is a complete and total psychological need to rescue drowning worms, and a complete and total psychological inability to do so.
I am healed from her:
Writing with the pen of God
threw me back to grass.
Finally.
My email has changed due to circumstances beyond my control. I am now at lycos.com instead of eudoramail.com. Please change your address books accordingly.
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20/7/04 05:31 (UTC)Say, would you like to be my Lycos-mail parent, so I can open my inbox? :) http://www.livejournal.com/users/copperwolf/70631.html I'm trying to move things over to Gmail, but I still want access to my old stuff.
Animes and E-mails
20/7/04 09:50 (UTC)I mentioned one of the series I really like in my own lj entry (July 20th) being Chobits. Have you ever seen that one?
Also, do you want me to send an invite to your new e-mail addy for the Clan of the Misted Lands mailer?
Inquiring Celestials want to know...
Re: Animes and E-mails
20/7/04 15:37 (UTC)You're one of the people I was going to personally recommend Wolf's Rain to; it's a fascinating series. Everyone even remotely interested in therianthropy and/or wolves should watch it. I could burn CDs for you and send them to you if you could pay postage.
I have not seen the Chobits anime, though I have seen another anime set in the same CLAMP universe (Angelic Layer) and read the Chobits manga. I liked both of them very much. Chobits is genuinely sweet, kind, and fascinating, which is a rare combination.
Connie Willis
20/7/04 15:11 (UTC)Re: Connie Willis
20/7/04 15:40 (UTC)I would like to read the rest, though--but probably not until this weekend! So many library books I still have to get through that I fear are, like the white rabbit, late for a very important (due) date.