trying to get the engine idling ~ and news bits

[lookingland]

last night i wrote three sentences. er, not exactly the fabulous outpouring of words i had hoped for. and one of the sentences doesn't even count since it was a quote from the Bible.

i'm having that "cold and in the garage for too long" problem. can't quite get the engine to turn over.

i'm still having difficulty picking the right place to begin. i actually had a thought yesterday that maybe i oughta use dates, but i really hate dates in books. they go right over my head.

there's something about bassico's Silk in the way he contextualizes the world of the story by presenting a short list of what's happening globally. and i am reminded of the parable quality of his work (as well as fermine's). there was a descriptor to this book that called it a fable. a fable about longing, loss, and the paradoxes of destiny. or some such. i don't necessarily argue with that. except that it's not really fabulous, now is it?

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it's sir arthur conan doyle's b-day today. Google has a cool commemorative logo to celebrate today.



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in other news, i've been watching the barbaro story. i want to preface this by saying that i think horse-racing is barbaric, but i respect the tradition of it in the same way that i respect bull-fighting in spite of my disapproval.

for those of you who are also following, you know they give barbaro a 50-50 for survival. his ankle was shattered so bad that he's now got 23 pins just holding it together. normally you put a horse down if it has this bad an injury.



it's a wee bit heartbreaking to be sure.

Comments

[sistermeg.livejournal.com]

a bunch of people were talking at lunch about how awful this injury is, and I mentioned that maybe if we didn't race horses like this in the first place we wouldn't have these tragedies...

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

every time i see one of these injuries, i just cringe at the people profiting off of this sort of thing. it's why i have a hard time thinking movies like SeaBiscuit are such a good thing. i don't really "buy" that horses love to race the way some people claim they do.

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[la-vita-nuova.livejournal.com]

And the owners see the animal maybe a few times a year & name the poor beasties as if they were an endowment fund, posh apartment house, or new species of hybrid petunia. I used to read all those books about hores racing and all that rot when I was 12 but I think you are correct, they would be much happier roaming in a meadow somewhere...