Christmas Eve...
Dec. 24th, 2006 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fajrdrakoA momentary pause between finishing housework and going out with my friends. It's been a great day - any day that starts with writing a story has to be good, right? And I got to listen to John Barrowman: A Musical Christmas while doing the housework, and that made it a pleasure.
I think my little budgie Logan is tired from just watching me!
Can't believe it's Christmas Eve, with no snow. Usually it's thick on the ground by now, and snowing heavily on Christmas Eve itself. Many's the time I've gone to carol services trudging through heavy snowfall.... As one of my friends said yesterday, "It's December but it looks and feels like April."
Merry Christmas!
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-12-27 03:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-27 06:25 pm (UTC)I've pretty well finished the chapter on fictional representations. It has been a marathon: 51 pages, and a lot of emotional distress, given how nastily so many writers and film-makers have portrayed the poor darling!
no subject
Date: 2006-12-27 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-27 08:14 pm (UTC)But, struth, there is just so much Conrad-abuse out there in fiction and film, and some of it is so vicious and nasty... I just wish I could give him a hug.
no subject
Date: 2006-12-27 08:16 pm (UTC)I'm glad you're quoting her. I tried to order her book on ILL, as you know. They phoned me and said they could get me a microfiche copy that I could look at in the library for $30. Since I have neither the time nor the money I reluctantly passed up the opportunity, so your quotes are probaby the only chance I'll have to read Porden at all.
no subject
Date: 2006-12-27 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-27 08:49 pm (UTC)