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!

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From: [identity profile] 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.....

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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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From: [identity profile] 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......:)

From: [identity profile] 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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