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[lapsedmodernist]

Things learned while reading out loud the book about Russian moonshine that Fionn pulled down from the bookshelf and was ecstatic about [ripping apart]:

1. Catherine the Great was fond of sending presents of Russian moonshine to her friends abroad--Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang van Goethe, and Carl Linnaeus

2. Carl Linnaeus wrote a tract about Russian moonshine entitled something like "Vodka: in the hands of healers, intellectuals and lumpen proletariat: a most curious study for all sorts of purposes"--this is not verbatim, as the book vanished after Fionn got his little hands on it, and possibly ate it all, but it's pretty darn close--it really has that three-tiered structure about the different users, and the meta-title after the semicolon.

also these are drawings of my self and Fionn made by the lovely missmimesis!





ETA: also, after the gross Christmas-ish weather in Boston, accompanied by that un-gemutlich dreary feeling when seasons seem misaligned, it feels like Really Winter.

Comments

[theophile.livejournal.com]

in that top picture you look very Tori Amosified.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

really? I don't see it. Also what are you doing up? Shouldn't you be Sleeping In?

[theophile.livejournal.com]

Fionn has trained me too well for that.

[goddessspiral.livejournal.com]

that's so cool to have that kind of art of yourselves to have about. are you framing it? :)

[twotoedsloth.livejournal.com]

And now it feels like early spring again... Hey, isn't moonshine only moonshine if it's not quite legal? I mean, if Catherine the Great was sending it, wouldn't that just make it vodka? And, re: Fionn's eating habits. Just how big a book was that?