an important announcement ~

[lookingland]

i would just like to say, for the record, that until i came across his name in Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War by lisa a. long at the beginning of this year, i had never ever ever before heard of S. Weir Mitchell, nor read any of his works, nor known anything about them.

so i can't account for the fact that his characters are disturbingly similar to my own sometimes (and have the same set of names even! Hunter, Preston, good gravy, common enough names, but honestly!), his plots are even more so (drug addicts, quadruple amputees, married people of opposing north/south politics), and his themes generally likewise (racism, the psychological effects of war, maiming and the idea of "wholeness").

so yeah, he's kinda pissing me off lately.

just thought i would say that ~ for the record.

picture of the day: "hope deferred" ~



in Victorian art, the carelessly tossed gloves
symbolize absent-mindedness or possibly compromised virtue

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[bachsoprano.livejournal.com]

I had a similar experience recently. It sucks....but, I ditto what Rabia said. :)

As for the picture, I'd guess the second interpretation (compromised virtue). There's an open jewellery box on the table behind the girl...I wish I could make out what the other object is on the table, and what's beside the gloves on the floor...

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

maybe we should have a discussion: what to do when channeling old deaf forgotten people. hahahahaha ~ !

good point about the jewelry box in the picture. i think the other thing on the floor is a clutch purse of some sort. she doesn't quite look suicidal enough to have compromised her virtue (her hair is still neatly arranged), but it's interesting to speculate!

: D