And I know what the darkness knows
Oct. 30th, 2022 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ashlymeI don't know why we turn the clocks back at the end of autumn. Why feed the night another hour when it'll be fat soon enough? When I walked back home I seemed I couldn't really see bright windows or streetlights, just the dark between them. I slept badly and the only good thing to come of it was a dream of travelling in time via mirrors, to a pier ballroom in the mid-eighties. I can't dance in real life - not sure if I was any better in sleep.
I borrowed Sayers' THE NINE TAILORS off a friend yesterday and that will be my book to see October out. I've not read Wimsey in thirty-five years. But the strangeness of this one lingered with me all that time, like the echo of a bell.
I borrowed Sayers' THE NINE TAILORS off a friend yesterday and that will be my book to see October out. I've not read Wimsey in thirty-five years. But the strangeness of this one lingered with me all that time, like the echo of a bell.
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Date: 2022-10-30 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-30 09:11 pm (UTC)Okay, you write the next fic for Sapphire & Steel.
But the strangeness of this one lingered with me all that time, like the echo of a bell.
I had never thought of it as an October book, but I like the idea now that I have.
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Date: 2022-10-30 09:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-30 09:19 pm (UTC)Huh, it was the autumn clocks that made me think of S & S! I'll have a think about that.
*I had never thought of it as an October book, but I like the idea now that I have.*
My usual go-to for this time of year was Bradbury, but I fancied a change. I'm pretty sure DLS was fond of ghost stories.
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Date: 2022-10-30 09:28 pm (UTC)"The Autumn Clocks" would make a good title for something, I observed innocently.
I'm pretty sure DLS was fond of ghost stories.
I wonder if she wrote any. She could certainly write moments of great uncanny—The Nine Tailors and Busman's Honeymoon both come to mind.
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Date: 2022-10-30 09:29 pm (UTC)We're facing the prospect of being stuck in perma-Daylight Savings, which I would not prefer: I would just prefer to stick with the regular year and stop.
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Date: 2022-10-30 09:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-30 09:46 pm (UTC)I like your observations.... And you know, that's not a bad title?
*I wonder if she wrote any.*
Well, I knew she liked M. R. James. I rooted round the Jamesian Facebook group and it seems Sayers wrote a coda to his "Martin's Close"! It was written as a letter concerning one of Lord Peter's ancestors encountering that tale's villain. That pleases me.
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Date: 2022-10-30 09:48 pm (UTC)Holy blap, do you have a link to this object?
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Date: 2022-10-30 09:52 pm (UTC)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/28/in-brief-ghosts-from-the-library-how-to-live-when-you-could-be-dead-between-the-covers-review
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Date: 2022-10-30 09:53 pm (UTC)Oh, that's such a cool idea for an anthology. I wonder if I can find it. Thank you!
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Date: 2022-10-30 09:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-31 06:20 am (UTC)*enables, supportively*