I ♥ George Sand

Just finished Consuelo. (Which, BTW, I'm pretty sure is the only full-length novel I've read cover-to-cover in French. Novellas and plays? Yes. Most of Les Misérables? Yes, in fits and starts and terribly out of order. Started longer books without finishing? Yep. Finished anything over 150 pages? No, not really.)

I feel like I should say something deep about art and devotion and the redemption of humanity, and all those thoughts are rattling around loose in my brain, but the only thing I can pin down is: god damn, what is it with the Romantics and sepulchral wedding-nights. Seriously, you've got ( lots and lots of spoilers for various things )

I know, I know, trivial. I kvetch because secretly it makes my inner Romantic really happy. Or, well, not happy exactly but satisfied in that "O! Behold, the unity of the altar and the tomb opens up a pathway in my soul whose awe-inspiring passages have not been tread since the last time I read Childe Harold's Pilgrimage!" sort of way.

I ♥ George Sand

Just finished Consuelo. (Which, BTW, I'm pretty sure is the only full-length novel I've read cover-to-cover in French. Novellas and plays? Yes. Most of Les Misérables? Yes, in fits and starts and terribly out of order. Started longer books without finishing? Yep. Finished anything over 150 pages? No, not really.)

I feel like I should say something deep about art and devotion and the redemption of humanity, and all those thoughts are rattling around loose in my brain, but the only thing I can pin down is: god damn, what is it with the Romantics and sepulchral wedding-nights. Seriously, you've got ( lots and lots of spoilers for various things )

I know, I know, trivial. I kvetch because secretly it makes my inner Romantic really happy. Or, well, not happy exactly but satisfied in that "O! Behold, the unity of the altar and the tomb opens up a pathway in my soul whose awe-inspiring passages have not been tread since the last time I read Childe Harold's Pilgrimage!" sort of way.

Further plotting.

Mmmm, Turkish food is yummy. :D

Nerd-party's still on for tomorrow! mmebahorel, elyse24601, mmejavert, and anyone else in the DC area who can/wants to come (ladybranwen? ladyshrew? followthatcab? srevans? anyone I'm being thoughtless enough to forget?)... I'm thinking around 7pm, although anyone who wants to is welcome to drop by earlier or later.

I can't feed everyone dinner, but there will be tea and snacks and drinks both alcoholic and non. Including absinthe if people are still willing to pitch in for a bottle. And probably a silly historically inaccurate costume drama for us to laugh at while we ogle the costumes.

And despite the probable presence of beer (which my brother left lots of), brandy, and absinthe, we will not be playing any Grantaire's-hideous-cocktail drinking games unless y'all really, really want to. XD

Further plotting.

Mmmm, Turkish food is yummy. :D

Nerd-party's still on for tomorrow! mmebahorel, elyse24601, mmejavert, and anyone else in the DC area who can/wants to come (ladybranwen? ladyshrew? followthatcab? srevans? anyone I'm being thoughtless enough to forget?)... I'm thinking around 7pm, although anyone who wants to is welcome to drop by earlier or later.

I can't feed everyone dinner, but there will be tea and snacks and drinks both alcoholic and non. Including absinthe if people are still willing to pitch in for a bottle. And probably a silly historically inaccurate costume drama for us to laugh at while we ogle the costumes.

And despite the probable presence of beer (which my brother left lots of), brandy, and absinthe, we will not be playing any Grantaire's-hideous-cocktail drinking games unless y'all really, really want to. XD