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

[frog-lady.livejournal.com]

I'm glad your car is working, and it's nice to know that other people have work permeate much of the rest of their thoughts.

This is also an official reply to your post.

[ursula]

The book had a forcible-interrogation-by-teakettle scene, so the dream was solidly half and half.

1. Why, anything by They Might Be Giants, of course.
2. Several incarnations of the I character in Years of Rice and Salt.
3. Cabled.
4. Dark green.