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Reading Diary: sundry
Mar. 17th, 2023 05:32 pm17/03/2023
Finished 19 Ways, some more interesting variants of the poem and the pleasing story of Weinberger's – kismesis too strong, it's probably platonic – fremesis? In any case, a scholar who writes angrily about his every single published word.
Gloss for readers of what I must remind myself is a formal part of the coursework and not just my own noodlings: 'kismesis' is a term from the webcomic Homestuck referring to a normative sexual relationship founded on intense hatred. [This does not apply to an entry here, however, readers of this journal including my grandparents have not read Homestuck, so.]
Today I met with Elizabeth, my supervisor, who recommended me Bleak House, Reservoir Thirteen, and the omniscient narrator they contain. These books are now on my shelf. Meanwhile I have started Early In Orcadia, a Naomi Mitchison novel about early humans. The oldest man is sitting up on a cliff watching the sea; he has been for a long time, and he thinks, if he can get it clear enough in his mind and into words, that he might be going to do something with the sea, something important – but he hasn't done it yet.
In workshop news, when you give ten people three writing exercises to do each over three weeks, something will crop up more often than it has a reason to, and for us, that's been chickens. We have now hit the in-joke moment where I have deliberately set my next exercise on a chicken farm, and if everyone else has done this too, I'll laugh, but not be surprised.
Also we just had a case of content-warning-absence-related distress and discussion which it's nice to see go well. Increases my trust in the workshop.
Finished 19 Ways, some more interesting variants of the poem and the pleasing story of Weinberger's – kismesis too strong, it's probably platonic – fremesis? In any case, a scholar who writes angrily about his every single published word.
Gloss for readers of what I must remind myself is a formal part of the coursework and not just my own noodlings: 'kismesis' is a term from the webcomic Homestuck referring to a normative sexual relationship founded on intense hatred. [This does not apply to an entry here, however, readers of this journal including my grandparents have not read Homestuck, so.]
Today I met with Elizabeth, my supervisor, who recommended me Bleak House, Reservoir Thirteen, and the omniscient narrator they contain. These books are now on my shelf. Meanwhile I have started Early In Orcadia, a Naomi Mitchison novel about early humans. The oldest man is sitting up on a cliff watching the sea; he has been for a long time, and he thinks, if he can get it clear enough in his mind and into words, that he might be going to do something with the sea, something important – but he hasn't done it yet.
In workshop news, when you give ten people three writing exercises to do each over three weeks, something will crop up more often than it has a reason to, and for us, that's been chickens. We have now hit the in-joke moment where I have deliberately set my next exercise on a chicken farm, and if everyone else has done this too, I'll laugh, but not be surprised.
Also we just had a case of content-warning-absence-related distress and discussion which it's nice to see go well. Increases my trust in the workshop.
