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

Comments

Re: Silly Miss Lookingland ~

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

i agree about the woman ~ she doesn't look "abandoned" enough to have compromised her virtue.

as for mitchell, well, he is an inneresting writer ~ and you're right: particularly growing up in that century and having the life experiences he had, he was just drawing from that well on ideas that were pretty much preoccupying the country as a whole.

: D