a word about that there book i am supposed to be writing ~

[lookingland]

i have totally confirmed in the last week that the more attention i pay to lj, the less work i get done. during my week off from lj, i wrote 60 pages and completed a number of projects. this week, even though i haven't been posting much, i have been reading about all of you on my lovely flist, etc. and i've accomplished very little! yeeks!

quelle dommage!

but i am working and hope to find a balance.

in pursuance of said conspiracy: this past week i have been incorporating Mr. Hanty into my uber-outline/chronology and aside from his execution report, i'm done with him and Hancock (minus a letter or two of Hancock's that i continue to struggle with).

it's been nice to spend time with Hanty (i'm sorta glad i saved him for last since he gives me the warm fuzzies). much as i adore Poppet, Poppet just seems so hopelessly unapproachable on some levels by comparison.

Poppet's like someone who has fish for pets and owns a lint brush and keeps a separate drawer just for neatly folded socks (which he folds himself), whereas Mr. Hanty is very obviously a dog person who has never folded a sock in his life and who desperately needs a wife to knot his ties and make him breakfast (which he would then proceed to eat with too much ketchup). Poppet is wry and ironic; a philosopher. Mr. Hanty is more straight-forward, down-to-earth (while keeping up appearances of being decorous). He strikes me as someone you could unexpectedly make laugh so hard that he would shoot milk out of his nose. Poppet, never.

the picture of the day: at one time Mr. Hanty got to be on the face of the $1 bill in montgomery county ~ with a bunch of other forgotten generals. well except for George Washington there on the bottom.





i have to admit (in case i haven't already):
Mr. Hanty was kinda a hottie. His wife, Sallie, who was a wee
jealous, snarked on him during the war that other ladies had
better know he was married and keep their mitts at a distance.

Comments

[gwyn-hwyfar.livejournal.com]

I love your Oscar-and-Felix comparison of Poppet and Mr. Hanty :D and yes, Mr. Hanty was quite hot, was he not?

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

hahahaha ~ despite the fact of both of them being german lawyers from pennsylvania who both raised companies numbered the 4th (one infantry, the other cavalry), both serving as provost marshals in d.c., and both attaining the rank of brigadier general (one by brevet), the two seem to have very little in common.

they're just from completely opposite sides of the tracks, had wildly differing educations, and Mr. Hanty was an only child, whereas Poppet was the youngest of seven.

it's all entirely too fascinating ~ hahahahaha.

: D

[gwyn-hwyfar.livejournal.com]

Hah! That probably explains why Mr. Hanty was an Oscar...he probably got the undivided attention of his Mommy and never had to learn to do things for himself...on the homefront, that is :D

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

indeed ~ !

he strikes me as having that classical only-child syndrome of sort of blindered self-importance. seemed like a heck of a good guy (he was raised well in that regard), but not always hip to the fact that everyone isn't on the same bus he's driving.

: D

[lanyn.livejournal.com]

The Mr. Hanty picture does not seem to be showing up for me...?

[lanyn.livejournal.com]

Never mind... now it's appearing!! :-D

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

ha ~ !

sometimes the picture server i use can be a wee fussy.

: o p

Tha's a heck of a mustache!

[(Anonymous)]

I love it!

Your description of Hanty and Poppet is a good example of why I love your writing.

Write on boo-boo (and God's Speed ...which isn't always FAST it's just the speed it should go)

moo

Re: Tha's a heck of a mustache!

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

awww thanks mooey ~

Hanty reminds me of James ~ but with a bright and shining upright moral center.

: D