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pameladeanSharyn's going to reprint Tam Lin too. I think the present idea, which of course is subject to change, is for it to come out in 2006. I'm thrilled.
In other news, I continue to be delighted by my wacky catbird. The peonies and rosebushes have buds that show color, and I know they are just waiting for me to leave before they bloom. The white daisies and the spiderwort are blooming, the latter in two different purples. It's a banner year for dame's rocket: I have two major clumps and many minor scatterings. The rudbeckia crop also looks extremely promising, and all the phlox came back and most of it spread. The hairy bellflower continues its push to take over the world, backed by the daylilies. Some serious weeding and moving of plants is in order on my return. The irises are on strike; the mulberries are starting to ripen. Still no mosquitoes, but that won't last long.
One other note, from myself to myself : Despite a continued failure -- well, really, it's not a failure, it's a policy -- despite a continued policy of not blogging political stories or discussing politics except when driven to desperation, every day in every way I despise the Bush Administration and all its works. I wouldn't need to actually look at the news; I could continue in this course in the complete confidence that every day some fresh idiocy, horror, lie, or blunder is being discovered and, when the media is not too busy making up little fables to tell to itself, even reported. As a comprehensive, all-encompassing, utterly destructive mess, there's hardly anything to compare it to. I hope to God that the ctual era of gleeful and treasonous wreckage will be over next January. I was about to say, "it will all be over," but of course it won't be over for decades.
"I have some shreds of respect left for my nation, if none for the extraordinary creatures who are attempting to run it at present."
Dorothy Dunnett, The Disorderly Knights
Pamela
In other news, I continue to be delighted by my wacky catbird. The peonies and rosebushes have buds that show color, and I know they are just waiting for me to leave before they bloom. The white daisies and the spiderwort are blooming, the latter in two different purples. It's a banner year for dame's rocket: I have two major clumps and many minor scatterings. The rudbeckia crop also looks extremely promising, and all the phlox came back and most of it spread. The hairy bellflower continues its push to take over the world, backed by the daylilies. Some serious weeding and moving of plants is in order on my return. The irises are on strike; the mulberries are starting to ripen. Still no mosquitoes, but that won't last long.
One other note, from myself to myself : Despite a continued failure -- well, really, it's not a failure, it's a policy -- despite a continued policy of not blogging political stories or discussing politics except when driven to desperation, every day in every way I despise the Bush Administration and all its works. I wouldn't need to actually look at the news; I could continue in this course in the complete confidence that every day some fresh idiocy, horror, lie, or blunder is being discovered and, when the media is not too busy making up little fables to tell to itself, even reported. As a comprehensive, all-encompassing, utterly destructive mess, there's hardly anything to compare it to. I hope to God that the ctual era of gleeful and treasonous wreckage will be over next January. I was about to say, "it will all be over," but of course it won't be over for decades.
"I have some shreds of respect left for my nation, if none for the extraordinary creatures who are attempting to run it at present."
Dorothy Dunnett, The Disorderly Knights
Pamela
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Date: 2004-06-04 08:08 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-06-04 08:21 pm (UTC)I re-read my dog-eared copy of Tam Lin at least once a year. How wonderful to have a new edition.
Sorry to go all fan-girl on you, but woohoo!
Hugs,
Harper
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Date: 2004-06-04 08:23 pm (UTC)Congratulations! Streamers! Balloons!
Date: 2004-06-04 08:30 pm (UTC)Yeah, arrrggghhh on the whole Bush administration thing. I keep thinking I won't read the news, it can't possibly be as bad as I imagine, and when I tune in, it's invariably worse.
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Date: 2004-06-04 08:31 pm (UTC)Forgot one thing
Date: 2004-06-04 08:37 pm (UTC)reprinting
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Date: 2004-06-04 09:04 pm (UTC)My first peony bloom appeared today. The ants are very happy.
Re: the country and the ilk of the people who run it, this article in Salon struck a chord with me. I, too, can only hope the country can hang on long enough for us to kick the bastards out of office.
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Date: 2004-06-04 10:27 pm (UTC)I commiserate about your administration, and could say more about that if my brain hadn't just broken itself in a colourful way from trying to visualise Lymond taking part in 21st century international politics.
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Date: 2004-06-04 11:46 pm (UTC)Catherine
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Date: 2004-06-05 01:59 am (UTC)Re the present adminstration: I reserve the right to feel all Grinchy and unreasonable about them. As a child of the 60's I am regularly given to announcing crossly that I want my fscking country back, dammit.
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Date: 2004-06-05 05:47 am (UTC)I'm very happy for you.
As for Monkeyman, let us hope he will be gone in November.
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Date: 2004-06-05 10:08 am (UTC)It will be a nice challenge for Firebird to come up with a cover as good as the Canty original.
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Date: 2004-06-05 10:40 am (UTC)Yay! My copy of the first printing went out on loan and never came back. This time, I'll get wise and buy two.
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Date: 2004-06-05 08:29 pm (UTC)and woo hoo! re: tam lin!!!
Tam Lin
Date: 2004-06-08 03:47 pm (UTC)General response --
Date: 2004-06-14 02:46 pm (UTC)I'm sorry I missed the concerts, Sherman.
And yes, I would like nothing better, David, than to have JG&R, my favorite of my books, reprinted. It has dreadful sales figures, though. I was told at the time not to worry too much about those, since it came out in a very ill-timed way during the collapse of the mass-market distribution system and had to be released in trade rather than mass-market paperback, in an atmosphere where nobody was sure what to do about anything. But since I followed those figures with a five-year silence, it's not a very good record to look at.
And finally -- well, that should be a separate entry, I suppose. I've got a few hardcover copies of Tam Lin left, and David has been putting them up on eBay from time to time. There's one up now. I need to go look up the URL, though.
Pamela
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Date: 2004-06-18 09:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-28 08:49 pm (UTC)I don't suppose it'll have the same cover? I really like the Canty cover....
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Date: 2004-07-05 10:10 pm (UTC)Pamela
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