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felis_ultharusThe speech by Bill Siksay that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
montrealais set up was fantastic. He's an interesting speaker -- not quite as rousing among friends in a bar as when he's in parliament, but still enjoyable to listen to.
He also doesn't look like Frankenstein's Monster in person. I guess he just doesn't photograph well.
Svend Robinson showed up, too, who I've met a few times before.
After the speech, Siksay was talking about queer history, and I found out about a queer writer I'd missed named Scott Symons. His best-known work, Place d'Armes, was written way back in 1967, and Jack McLelland -- the biggest name in Canadian publishing -- said that after 1967 all Canadian novels he read were influenced either by Leonard Cohen or Scott Symons.
The reading continues apace. I am through with Protestant Elves, and have moved on to Astrophil and Stella by Philip Sidney.
The reading list terrifies me -- just looking at the list of Emily Dickinson's numbered poems makes my eyes blister. Did she really write so much? The reading list of her poetry looks like a Fibonacci Sequence left in the fridge too long.
Meanwhile, I have finished the major edit on my novel. Today I'll be writing up a list of parts that need serious work, then I'll work on those, and do one final edit before I show it to others.
montrealais set up was fantastic. He's an interesting speaker -- not quite as rousing among friends in a bar as when he's in parliament, but still enjoyable to listen to.He also doesn't look like Frankenstein's Monster in person. I guess he just doesn't photograph well.
Svend Robinson showed up, too, who I've met a few times before.
After the speech, Siksay was talking about queer history, and I found out about a queer writer I'd missed named Scott Symons. His best-known work, Place d'Armes, was written way back in 1967, and Jack McLelland -- the biggest name in Canadian publishing -- said that after 1967 all Canadian novels he read were influenced either by Leonard Cohen or Scott Symons.
The reading continues apace. I am through with Protestant Elves, and have moved on to Astrophil and Stella by Philip Sidney.
The reading list terrifies me -- just looking at the list of Emily Dickinson's numbered poems makes my eyes blister. Did she really write so much? The reading list of her poetry looks like a Fibonacci Sequence left in the fridge too long.
Meanwhile, I have finished the major edit on my novel. Today I'll be writing up a list of parts that need serious work, then I'll work on those, and do one final edit before I show it to others.
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Date: 2006-07-29 03:18 pm (UTC)I'll bring you the Pride and Prejudice on Wednesday and let me know if there's something else you need, I have a nice collection of stuff. A bachelor in English lit will do that... although give my interests it's a bit ecclectic, a lot of stuff from the Renaissance and before and random foreign works.
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Date: 2006-07-29 04:25 pm (UTC)....Of course, maybe I would have been better off at the fundraiser, the only two people at the party who interested me in that way were already attrached... to each other. D'oh.
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Date: 2006-07-30 11:10 am (UTC)I was hoping to be through with the 16th Century by the end of the month, but no such luck :/
And thank you for the offer. The one thing I'm really worried about is Emily Dickinson. I've never seen a complete collection of her poems :/
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Date: 2006-07-30 11:12 am (UTC)The strongbox is, of course, always open, and forever hungry :/
Now I'm curious about the two people -- I work with Michelle, am in the same program as she's in, so I think I know most of her friends ;)
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Date: 2006-07-30 02:38 pm (UTC)Things Falls Apart is great too, I did that in cegep (although it was out of print at the time so I don't own a copy saddly). That's probably one of the few 20th century ones on the list I've read. I was never big on modern literature unless there were dragons, magic or space ships... and most people stop calling it literature at that point ;)
A clue.
Date: 2006-07-30 03:30 pm (UTC)