The Samurai Susanna and her faithful groundhog...

[felis_ultharus]

I am very much enjoying Headhunter, though having worked half the day and slept the other half, I'm not much farther. I find I'm quite hampered by my lack of Wuthering Heights knowledge -- what does "Heathcliff hath murdered sleep" mean? How did Linton perish?

This is a book that requires you to know a lot of other books. I'm very glad I've read Heart of Darkness three times. I'm glad I know about the Samurai Susanna. I found this line very funny:

"The groundhog, looking up at her as it ate, had a face very much like Susanna Moodie's -- slightly bad-tempered, furrowed over the brow, a weatherbeaten red in colour -- grey around the edges.

But if Susanna is going to help Lilah Kemp fight Kurtz from Heart of Darkness, she should have come with her giant samurai sword. That would help. A faithful groundhog familiar couldn't hurt, but Kurtz is likely very powerful.

This is a very fun book.

Worked today. Sounds like they're going to want me back for my old job, starting week after next. I've barely written anything today (1.5 pages), but I'll probably spend the evening doing that :)

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[scottevil.livejournal.com]

Out on the wiley, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me
When I needed to
Possess you
I hated you, I loved you too

Bad dreams in the night
You told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my Wuthering, Wuthering, Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy, I've come home
I'm so cold, let me in-a your window

Ooh it gets dark, it gets lonely
On the other side from you
I pine a lot, I find the lot
Falls through without you
I'm coming back love, cruel Heathcliff
My one dream, my only master

Too long I roam in the night
I'm coming back to his side to put it right
I'm coming home to Wuthering, Wuthering, Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy, I've come home
I'm so cold, let me in-a your window

Ooh, let me have it, let me grab your soul away
You know it's me, Cathy...

Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy, I've come home
I'm so cold, let me in-a your window...

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Neat song. Who's it by?

And, can I take it from that that "Heathcliff hath murdered sleep" because Cathy can't sleep because of him...? Thinking about him? Dreaming about him?

(Like the new icon by the way -- I'm a fan of B&W photography, more than colour)

[scottevil.livejournal.com]

Why, it's by none other than Kate Bush. It was her first single, in 1978, when she was 19. It went straight to #1 on the UK charts, where it stayed for a good month. It was also top ten in Europe and Australia.

I'm sending it to you, hope your inbox can handle it. Warning: she sings really high, like a little girl... (Cathy.)

[scottevil.livejournal.com]

Well that didn't work.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Which account did you try to send it to? My planetout account can't handle large file connections :/

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Odd, I don't remember it. I remember "swimming in gaffa" and "cloudbursting" and "babushka" from my high school days -- maybe it's just been too long :/