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You know, I've lost track as to whether I did any writing today... Not a good sign. Tinkering if any. Mostly reading - I tried to watch Heroes but the snooker overran and I only got the first five minutes of the two episodes. Better record them Saturday morning. An unusually Tuesday without the therapy session, and tried to get into town asap after lunch to drink coffee and read, but after paying bills and diversions to Chaucer Books and Oxfam, it was four o'clock. Finished a book and started another, mind. Oxfam finally yielded Ragtime, which obviously I'll read next.
LIV: C.J. Cherryh, Well of Shiuan (1978).
LV: C.J. Cherryh, Fires of Azeroth (1979).
Second and third novels of Morgaine trilogy, with the dynamic duo travelling through two more worlds, trying to shut the gates. Obviously mention of water and fire makes me wonder whether Ivrel is air or earth, and where Exile's Gate then fits in. But that's late. The first part of Well is taken up with a new female character, and for large chunks of the novel Vanye is separated from Morgaine. Thinking in terms of the Lawrence/Carter paradigm, here we have someone from an advanced civilisation in fantasyland, but she refuses to compromise. I almost get the sense that men adapt, women don't - although in Faded Sun adaptation is approved of. There is a moral complexity here, but I don't like the language.
LVI: Ursula Le Guin, Lathe of Heaven (1971)
Le Guin does Dick: George Orr's dreams literally change the world, and a psychiatrist tries to guide them. Orr reaches for a lawyer for help. Reread after fifteen years or so, and I'm guessing that back then I would not have noticed that there are only two women of any import in the narrative, and one of those is little more than a cipher. I guess the difference from PKD is that is always clear what is going on - and it reminds me of a short story where repeated journeys back in time make a bad situation worse. (I'm blanking on the title, mind: "The Skull"?)
LIV: C.J. Cherryh, Well of Shiuan (1978).
LV: C.J. Cherryh, Fires of Azeroth (1979).
Second and third novels of Morgaine trilogy, with the dynamic duo travelling through two more worlds, trying to shut the gates. Obviously mention of water and fire makes me wonder whether Ivrel is air or earth, and where Exile's Gate then fits in. But that's late. The first part of Well is taken up with a new female character, and for large chunks of the novel Vanye is separated from Morgaine. Thinking in terms of the Lawrence/Carter paradigm, here we have someone from an advanced civilisation in fantasyland, but she refuses to compromise. I almost get the sense that men adapt, women don't - although in Faded Sun adaptation is approved of. There is a moral complexity here, but I don't like the language.
LVI: Ursula Le Guin, Lathe of Heaven (1971)
Le Guin does Dick: George Orr's dreams literally change the world, and a psychiatrist tries to guide them. Orr reaches for a lawyer for help. Reread after fifteen years or so, and I'm guessing that back then I would not have noticed that there are only two women of any import in the narrative, and one of those is little more than a cipher. I guess the difference from PKD is that is always clear what is going on - and it reminds me of a short story where repeated journeys back in time make a bad situation worse. (I'm blanking on the title, mind: "The Skull"?)
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