le bruit de la mer s'éleva, sans bornes
Jul. 13th, 2011 12:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotesseOh internet! I am at prisint the busiest of bees - which is unfortunate, because it's bloody, bloody hot and my uni seems to have decided to turn off the air conditioning. 116-degree heat indices + French translations = zombies.
Um! So I am reading many good books - I just finished Mona Caird's The Daughters of Danaus, which started out aces and then was a bit pamphlety for a while and then was aces again, and which does gorgeous things with feminist reappropriations of Greek & Celtic mythologies - and now I'm reading Sarah Grand's The Beth Book, which is so far both clever and fresh and ridiculously adorable and true. And I just got back from a workshop on - if all goes well, and the initial scans can be made, I'm going to be TEI encoding Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh for the IU Victorian Women Writers Project, and I've been trulling back through AL in prep, and oh I heart it with so many infinite hearts. Novel in verse, like Jane Eyre smushed with - well, I hardly know what. Romola, maybe, but not a historical. Aurora's a deliciously empowered protag, almost a feminist-artist Mary Sue, and watching her triumphs and vindications is delightful.
Also! I saw Midnight in Paris, and thought it was lovely. Muffed the ending a bit by tacking on an overly-cliche moral, but the cast and the sets and the costumes and the score were tangy and melty and charming.
Erm. I am out of all the loops. W*ll Sh*tt*rly's still being a douchecanoe, right? And Captain America next week - I've been celebrating by rewatching the Iron Man movies and reading bucketloads of Steve/Tony.
Um! So I am reading many good books - I just finished Mona Caird's The Daughters of Danaus, which started out aces and then was a bit pamphlety for a while and then was aces again, and which does gorgeous things with feminist reappropriations of Greek & Celtic mythologies - and now I'm reading Sarah Grand's The Beth Book, which is so far both clever and fresh and ridiculously adorable and true. And I just got back from a workshop on - if all goes well, and the initial scans can be made, I'm going to be TEI encoding Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh for the IU Victorian Women Writers Project, and I've been trulling back through AL in prep, and oh I heart it with so many infinite hearts. Novel in verse, like Jane Eyre smushed with - well, I hardly know what. Romola, maybe, but not a historical. Aurora's a deliciously empowered protag, almost a feminist-artist Mary Sue, and watching her triumphs and vindications is delightful.
Also! I saw Midnight in Paris, and thought it was lovely. Muffed the ending a bit by tacking on an overly-cliche moral, but the cast and the sets and the costumes and the score were tangy and melty and charming.
Erm. I am out of all the loops. W*ll Sh*tt*rly's still being a douchecanoe, right? And Captain America next week - I've been celebrating by rewatching the Iron Man movies and reading bucketloads of Steve/Tony.
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Date: 2011-07-13 05:26 pm (UTC)What does your subject line say? I remember enough French to get "la mer" and "sans" but that's it.
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Date: 2011-07-15 05:00 pm (UTC)