Antidote to the Blues
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_k...thanks to a RT re Swedish and "Upper Futhark," I have discovered the one link to drive away the blues or the worries or what have you:
Omniglot.com/writing
Omniglot.com/writing
jesse_the_k
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Date: 2011-07-03 01:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-03 03:14 pm (UTC)Glad you liked it.
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Date: 2011-07-03 01:49 am (UTC)Didja know that Bosnian can be written in latinica, cyrillic, or a version of the arabic alphabet?! I knew about the first two.
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Date: 2011-07-03 03:12 pm (UTC)Have you read China Miéville's The City and the City? It's slipstream detective fiction, set somewhere in the Balkans, where the warring parties in the disputed metropolis use Arabic-like and Cyrillic-like languages/cultures. It's not a five-star because he runs out of steam at the end, but the ways the City's inhabitants refuse to acknowledge each other are inventive, instructive, and elegantly reflective our abilities to avoid important realities.
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Date: 2011-07-04 05:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-10 05:25 pm (UTC)I love how your summary avoided spoilers! I didn't talk about that aspect in my review because I was also trying to avoid spoilers. For me, it ended with an emphasis on how others control what we see and don't see for their own ends. The corporate aspect felt chillingly real, and took all the fun out of it for me. I'm not sure if China ran out of steam, or was going somewhere I didn't like the whole time.
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Date: 2011-07-11 03:27 pm (UTC)In other words, grumpy is useful.
On the other hand, I've reached the point in life where I know I'm never going to have time to read all the books I'd like to, so the real stinkers go back to the library before I hit page 40.
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Date: 2011-07-03 03:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-03 03:13 pm (UTC)