kites and other loose ends ~

[lookingland]

i made a vague feint at doing my homework in the off hours. i think i'll do passably for wednesday's class, but thursday's is a wash. it's pretty pitiful.

i won a $20 gift card for b&n at work. i think i will order the third Montmorency with it.



so the kite thing i promised to post yesterday: it's very simple, really:

we fly kites to send a message by the patterns and dips. some people watch the kite to read the signal, some just watch the movement and the colors ~ because they think that's what it's all about.

don't quote me on this because my memory is fuzzy, but i also believe that the word "kite" in Nahautl means both kite and butterfly ~ the butterfly being a symbol of rebirth, etc. (sort of in the way that literary creations are born out of the union between writer and audience).

anyway, fornes went on to discuss the dynamics of color ~ one adjacent to another ~ and the effect it creates. she also talked about style being a personal imprint, like a fingerprint: you don't choose it and no two are alike.

i spent a lot of time with fornes in dc and discovered she's mostly insane (how shattering it is to have your heroes be so fallible after all), and yet none of that changes the fact of what she's written, the impact she's had on the theatre, on writers like me (an impact which will continue). in many ways, despite her lunacy, i felt validated one-hundredfold by her absolute humanness, her insecurity, her jealousy, and the way in which she obstinately refused to see the world on other people's terms.

man, i'm talking about her like she's dead. hahahahahaha ~

tomorrow: NaNo.

gentlemen (and gentlewomen) start your engines!

vroooooom!

: D

Comments

[amberdulen.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, I LOVED the first Montmorency book. Scarper FTW!

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

yay ~ a fan! i dunno anyone else who's ever read the Montmorency books.

man, i love them ridiculously. the doctor is hilarious (i just want to tweek his cheeks).

eleanor updale, i have to say, is also a generous and delightful person. she sent me a signed poster last year and wrote me very kindly about a gushing fan letter i sent (which is so not like me).

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[amberdulen.livejournal.com]

My sister tahmthelame told me about them, so she's read at least the first, maybe the second. I had never heard of them otherwise. The doctor!! Augh, I was just edge-of-my-seat, he's-going-to-get-caught for like the last half of the book.

It's neat to know that the author is so sweet!

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

the second book kept me up all night with that kind of anxiety: oh my God, it's going to be the priest, no, the woman! no, the priest! please no! but maybe! oh dear!

~ i couldn't put it down.

and i just love the relationship between montmorency and the doctor overall ~ it's absolutely brilliant and however implausible, not forced at all.

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[bachsoprano.livejournal.com]

Montmorency has been added to the wish list.....

Kites! I *love* kites! And yay for gift cards and Nano and vroooooom....:)

P.S. I started reading "The Bloody Tower" by Angela Carter the other night. Oh my. Thank you, thank you, thank you.....

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

oh yay ~ ! i'm so glad you and angela are getting along ~ her stories have stayed with me for years. so rich and so dangerous and so daring!

now i hope you know why you remind me of her.

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[bachsoprano.livejournal.com]

We are getting along, but I'm a bit boggled that my writing reminds you of hers...her way with words is just stunning! It's really inspiring (ack, I hate that word - so cloying - but, that's what it is...)

And, she's got my little ole subconscious just a-twittering with ideas!

Thank you thank you thank you......:)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

well her writing is much more dense than yours, i think (which is neither good nor bad, just is) ~ so it's the spirit and the energy behind it that mostly makes the connection for me ~

~ and the poetry of it, which, dense or spare, creates amazing fresh images.

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[lastremnant.livejournal.com]

that's a neat painting, who is the artist?

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

sadly, i have no idea ~ i really like it too, though.