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[lapsedmodernist]

I am in Somerville, ensconced in a nest of blankets in the house of redheadedmuse. Today I will venture out of this abode, and hopefully cross state lines in the direction of NYC (but will be back here for the fondue party!).

My body is singing (more like croaking) its weltschmertz after the transatlantic flight with two bags, a baby car seat, and a toddler who kicked the shit out of me any time I picked him up, and plopped himself prostrate on the airport floor like a belligerent sea star any time I gave in to his entreats of "walk! walk!" and put him down.

I finished Special Topics in Calamity Physics and I am amending my assessment of it to: it's a cross between "Secret History," "The Basic Eight" and "Foucault's Pendulum." On the bus to NYC I am bringing "Woman on the Edge of Time" which I ordered from the used Amazon section because all of a sudden I felt compelled to reread it (the last time I read it must have been in college).

And now, hopefully, to find some coffee...

Comments

[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

Love that icon and belligerent sea star is a delightful improbable phrase.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

that's my travel icon!!
I have a lot of improbable metaphoric and metonymic connections between fionn and starfish.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

the absurdity of planes and toddlers is above and beyond ridiculous.
the fact that they pay full price or sit on your lap...

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

actually in my experience if there are any free seats on the plane the flight attendants are usually really good about giving babies their own seat--that is why I had the car seat with me, gambling that that's what would happen and it did. But it's still hard on a toddler and by proxy hard on the parent... I dread how expensive traveling will be once he turns two.

re: Special Topics in Citation as Simile

[prostheticgod04.livejournal.com]

I'm a little past the middle of this one--cheers on the tip, btw, I read this post just a day or two before stumbling across the title on a clearance table--and just realized a striking similarity between Blue and Dan Lloyd's Miranda in Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness (MIT Press, 2004). If you appreciated Blue, there's a special place in your heart for Miranda too (think: Blue six years later putzing toward her ".D" after a half-decade rubbing elbows amidst the east coast academic meritocracy.)

But, of course, this is not a book recommendation, as those are foolish. This is just a mention - never know what the clearance tables will have in your corner of the world tomorrow.

Re: Special Topics in Citation as Simile

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

three months later, I see this comment! Thanks for the unrecommendation; I will keep an eye out for it on clearance lists.

Re: Special Topics in Citation as Simile

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

tables, not lists.