Una McCormack

I’ll miss that world though.

Beautiful walk in Wandlebury this afternoon. I’ve been so deeply in my own mind the past few weeks. Good to start surfacing.

Thanks!

Paperback book: Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin

I’ve not read anything other than my own writing for over a month now. Back in with this.

Amazing film

Hackman is so BEAUTIFUL at the end; so vulnerable

OMG Hank Azaria though

Hackman is extraordinary

I think I’m just going to watch again. Hooted and hooted. Everyone so funny.

Watched The Birdcage yesterday for the first time. I know. Knew practically nothing about it. I know. The squeak I made when Baranski turned up.

Such terrible, terrible wickedness in this world.

Philosophy #FAQ Ontology: what the fuck? Causality: why the fuck? Epistemology: how the why the fuck? Phenomenology: the fuck.

genuinely my most successful promotional effort in ages, this. people really had that guy, lol

Hero.

AMAZING

There’s a lot of that about these days.

❤️

I'm happy to do that simply on a whim!

I often do a very good job of wandering blithely through the world.

He honestly hadn't even imposed himself on my consciousness until I got the email.

It's one of the test cases that makes me believe that there are indeed wrong interpretations of a text.

Will you be at Eastercon, do you think, or is that unlikely?

Absolutely. At least with r/w Tolkienists, you can, to some extent, say, "Well, I see that some of this is latent in a text by an author whose world-view is formed in part by Empire, even though he explicitly writes letters that are contra to your position." But with the r/w Trekkies it's deluded.

I can’t believe for a second it’s in good faith. How stupid can a person be? Actually, hold that thought…

Knock knock
Who’s there
Data
Data who
Data

Too much money doesn’t do people any good, does it. Though too little is of course far worse.

Thank you!

I suspected that might have been the case.

You know, maybe I missed out on the chance of a good faith discussion, but I get to have plenty of those anyway.

I don’t think I replied. He was very nice about my books in the email. I’d never heard of him, so I went to look him up and I thought, “Oh he can’t have read them.” So I didn’t reply. A bit rude of me, but there we are.