Writes all the things. Most of the things never write back.
“I wonder what pleasure men can take in making beasts of themselves.”
“I wonder, Madam,” replied the Doctor, “that you have not penetration to see the strong inducement to this excess; for he who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
~ Samuel L. Johnson
Even enjoyed Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London,” but wondered how it might sound if written by James Joyce? Well, today is your lucky day!
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/warren-zevons-werewolves-of-london-by-james-joyce
The full moon never shines so bright as against the darkest sky.
The only problem with sunrises is, they schedule them so early in the day.
Earlier, I cited a passage from Beauty and the Beast as an example of how writing style has changed from then to now. I’m reading Alexandre Dumas’ The Wolf-Leader from 1857, and the following passage struck me in much the same way:
At times, when I have been loving and caressing my grandmother, Monsieur Thibault, and she takes me on her lap and clasps me in her poor weak trembling arms, and puts her dear old wrinkled face against mine, and I feel my cheek wet with the loving tears she sheds, I begin to cry myself, and, I tell you, Monsieur Thibault, so soft and sweet are my tears, that there is no woman or girl, be she queen or princess, who has ever, I am sure, known such a real joy as mine.
– Alexandre Dumas, The Wolf-Leader
Again, as with Beauty and the Beast, the above is… one sentence.
Some days, I think I could productively spend a day just moving things from where they are to where they ought to be.
Some days, it feels like that IS what I am doing.
I hear rain fall. HEAVY rain fall.
“This would be a very good time to go outside,” my dog says.
Water dog. GO FIGURE.
I think cats are tough on elves. Ever since I’ve had cats, I’ve never once woke up to find a writing work-in-progress conpleted by elves during the night.
Whenever I pet some of my snoozy kitties and I get a little purr in response, I feel like I have somehow redressed the kindness/cruelty balance of the universe a little bit for a moment.