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Jul. 7th, 2014 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhameiaI HUNG OUT WITH KAREN LORD TODAY ASJKHDHWENT WEHGWSDVN :KREWQGV WGEW~!!!!!!!!!!
Got up at 7.30am to get a bus downtown (I'm getting better at using a bus other than the #1 and #16) to fetch Karen to Special Collections. Dr. Conway had brought out a really cool selection: early editions of Utopia, City of the Sun (in their original Latin), Frankenstein (which had initially been published in three volumes), Dracula (with an awful lime-yellow colour), the Time Machine (which has a very large box but is a very tiny book actually!), and Flatland (the first edition AND the fancy accordion artbook which I am a huge fan of) (also one of Karen's top favourite books so I am glad I knew of it to suggest it to her). We had a most lovely marvelous chat with Dr. Conway about all sorts of things, so I'm really glad she had time! Every chance I get to show off the Eaton to a visitor, the only word I've got to encapsulate how I feed is "chuffed".
The Time Machine was also published contemporaneously with a bunch of other novels in a kind of series and I took down a list of them:
- The Green Carnation by R. Hitchens
- An Altar of Earth by Thymol Monk
- The New Moon by C. E. Raimond
- The Wings of Icarus by Laurence Alma Tadema
- Joanna Trail, Spinster by Annie E Holdsworth
I'm going to look them up because I don't know why they might be published as part of a series with the Time Machine.
Afterward Karen and I had a drink at Coffee Bean and hung out for a couple more hours just chatting. Then we bussed back downtown, and I felt it would be a good idea because 1) yay company and b) the bus routes are kind of weird (and she confirmed my suspicions expressing how she might have been anxious at the many twists and turns the bus was taking).
Karen is such a terrific person! Wonderful conversationalist and so many interesting things to say about Barbados and grad school and stuff. She also made a connection between Sun Boy in Cordwainer Smith's "Under Old Earth" and Sun Ra which I hadn't thought about, and the stories are kind of contemporaneous so there might be a possible connection there? I don't know the chronology of Smith's Instrumentality stories so I can't look it up but it looks like an interesting thing to investigate.
And now turns outstarlady is also in town! So I get to hang out with cool people again! Yay! I am going to be so peopled out by the time summer is over.
Got up at 7.30am to get a bus downtown (I'm getting better at using a bus other than the #1 and #16) to fetch Karen to Special Collections. Dr. Conway had brought out a really cool selection: early editions of Utopia, City of the Sun (in their original Latin), Frankenstein (which had initially been published in three volumes), Dracula (with an awful lime-yellow colour), the Time Machine (which has a very large box but is a very tiny book actually!), and Flatland (the first edition AND the fancy accordion artbook which I am a huge fan of) (also one of Karen's top favourite books so I am glad I knew of it to suggest it to her). We had a most lovely marvelous chat with Dr. Conway about all sorts of things, so I'm really glad she had time! Every chance I get to show off the Eaton to a visitor, the only word I've got to encapsulate how I feed is "chuffed".
The Time Machine was also published contemporaneously with a bunch of other novels in a kind of series and I took down a list of them:
- The Green Carnation by R. Hitchens
- An Altar of Earth by Thymol Monk
- The New Moon by C. E. Raimond
- The Wings of Icarus by Laurence Alma Tadema
- Joanna Trail, Spinster by Annie E Holdsworth
I'm going to look them up because I don't know why they might be published as part of a series with the Time Machine.
Afterward Karen and I had a drink at Coffee Bean and hung out for a couple more hours just chatting. Then we bussed back downtown, and I felt it would be a good idea because 1) yay company and b) the bus routes are kind of weird (and she confirmed my suspicions expressing how she might have been anxious at the many twists and turns the bus was taking).
Karen is such a terrific person! Wonderful conversationalist and so many interesting things to say about Barbados and grad school and stuff. She also made a connection between Sun Boy in Cordwainer Smith's "Under Old Earth" and Sun Ra which I hadn't thought about, and the stories are kind of contemporaneous so there might be a possible connection there? I don't know the chronology of Smith's Instrumentality stories so I can't look it up but it looks like an interesting thing to investigate.
And now turns out
starlady is also in town! So I get to hang out with cool people again! Yay! I am going to be so peopled out by the time summer is over.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2014-07-09 12:25 am (UTC)Also you may know this, but apparently Cordwainer Smith was delusional long-term, and his psychiatrist wrote a book in which he discussed Smith in a very thinly veiled manner? The Fifteen-Minute Solution or The One Hour Solution or something like that? I've been meaning to do a little digging into that.
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