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felis_ultharusOkay, so Roughing It In the Bush isn't so bad now that I've gotten past the first parts. Susannah Moodie is still unsufferable, but she's very good at painting portraits of weird and evil people she's met, and they frankly seem a lot more interesting than she is.
For instance, Tom Wilson, her husband's best friend, who'd stop conversations mid-sentence and then start them in the same place months later, and who kept a pet bear to threaten people who were rude to him. And there's Miss Emily Satan (!), the evil neighbour who wore torn dresses, never bathed, always shouted at her, and "borrowed" Moodie's stuff without ever giving it back.
And the poetry is no longer as bad as an 11-year-old's on LJ. Now it's more like a 16-year-old's.
In other literary news, while researching the origins of the word "tribadism" for someone on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
queerhistory, I was amused to find out the first person to use "tribade" (an archaic word for a "lesbian") was Ben Jonson in 1601.
Jonson is one of those poets everyone thinks is boring because, since 99% of his stuff is about sex, high schools teach the boring 1% that isn't.
For instance, Tom Wilson, her husband's best friend, who'd stop conversations mid-sentence and then start them in the same place months later, and who kept a pet bear to threaten people who were rude to him. And there's Miss Emily Satan (!), the evil neighbour who wore torn dresses, never bathed, always shouted at her, and "borrowed" Moodie's stuff without ever giving it back.
And the poetry is no longer as bad as an 11-year-old's on LJ. Now it's more like a 16-year-old's.
In other literary news, while researching the origins of the word "tribadism" for someone on
queerhistory, I was amused to find out the first person to use "tribade" (an archaic word for a "lesbian") was Ben Jonson in 1601. Jonson is one of those poets everyone thinks is boring because, since 99% of his stuff is about sex, high schools teach the boring 1% that isn't.
