odds and ends

[ursula]

I read most of the second two books of Gene Wolfe's Long Sun series on the plane home. Somewhere in the middle I dozed and dreamed that someone was forcibly interrogating someone else using the fact that the someone else was some collection of finitely generated Z-modules, while the interrogator was a free Z-module and could therefore map onto his victim at any time.

The Long Sun books are beautiful but distant, and I react with incredulity every time the main character mentions that he's in love with the woman he's in love with. I think I am supposed to conclude that he's not-very-sub consciously sabotaging his priestly status; but I don't think I'm supposed to conclude that he is arbitrary and unfathomable.

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Now that I have real internet access again, I can post this, borrowed from mjbarefoot:

Reply to this post and...

1. I will tell you what song reminds me of you. (I reserve the right to substitute other works of art as necessary.)
2. I will tell you what celebrity/public/fictional person you remind me of, either in personality or in looks.
3. I will give you one word that I associate with you when I think of you.
4. I will tell you what colors I associate with you.

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My car works (mostly) at the moment, in case anyone's keeping score.

Comments

[glasseye.livejournal.com]

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[reasie.livejournal.com]

I suppose the SO gets leave to cheat on his reply. :P

A bore is someone who insists on talking about themselves, whereas a wit is one who has the wisdom to talk about you... therefore I'll post here that Ursule reminds me of! Ha!
Of course these are just the vaguest hints and ideas based on our limited contact, and I don't expect anything in return, since our contact HAS been limited, and I'd rather be active than passive- observer than observed.

1. Ursule, you are for some unknown reason linked to Pink Floyd in my mind. See Emily Play... I always got the feeling Emily was a scientist, a wizard or mathemetician, possessed of knowledge the singer cannot fathom, and that is why her motions are inscruitable.

2. You are actually a lot like Maureen McHugh. Is that cheating? She's not hugely famous, but there are manners about her that are very you. If that doesn't count, let me say Claudette Colbert for compliment's sake, in grace, if not in personality.

3. careful

4. Brown. A warm, knitting-yarn brown.

[ursula]

I left out the instructions about posting this in your own journal and brightening someone else's day, since I wasn't entirely convinced I was going to be brightening; but if you do steal this I can reciprocate in kind ;)

: P

[ursula]

1. "You're a girl, or maybe a wagon . . ."
2. Wookiees.
3. Cute.
4. Blue ribbons.

Re: : P

[glasseye.livejournal.com]

But I brush!