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So I am now infinitely more tired than I was twelve hours ago, sleep arriving some point around 4.15, no thanks to the gulls, nor to Tilda, who decided I needed some loving. I've had a run of 2am bedtimes; maybe 1am is too ambitious. I was awoken by the smell of fresh bread - which I'd started in motion some point around 4am.
Still, a productive morning, as kohlrabi soup is underway, I have written another thousand words (seasonally adjusted word count is 71,500, giving an eta of 24 October, a fortnight or so later than before) and I have watched:
LXXIII: Phase IV (Saul Bass, 1974)
You'll now the work of Bass - he did the openings for Psycho and Vertigo and Casino and many more. But this was his only feature, recut by the studio. Ants are going crazy, thanks to magnetic fields, and a scientist Nigel Davenport (Jack's dad) sets up a research station to finds ways of defeating them, or better still, talking to them. Twenty years earlier this would have been cold war allegory, but it's disturbing how like the ants we are, and it's the ants' phase iv, not ours. We're the rats in the maze. Lynne Frederick - later Peter Sellers' wife - is rather wasted as token young woman, but overall it's played pretty straight.
Totals: 73 (Cinema: 18; DVD: 43; Video: 1; TV: 11)
Meanwhile, is that really all there is on Elgin's Coyote Jones? E.L. Chapman, "Sex, Satire, and Feminism in the Science Fiction of Suzette Haden Elgin"? Lefanu skips over, nothing in On Joanna Russ, not in Demand the Impossible, not Aliens and Others. Odd reviews. Adds to growing to write list.
Still, a productive morning, as kohlrabi soup is underway, I have written another thousand words (seasonally adjusted word count is 71,500, giving an eta of 24 October, a fortnight or so later than before) and I have watched:
LXXIII: Phase IV (Saul Bass, 1974)
You'll now the work of Bass - he did the openings for Psycho and Vertigo and Casino and many more. But this was his only feature, recut by the studio. Ants are going crazy, thanks to magnetic fields, and a scientist Nigel Davenport (Jack's dad) sets up a research station to finds ways of defeating them, or better still, talking to them. Twenty years earlier this would have been cold war allegory, but it's disturbing how like the ants we are, and it's the ants' phase iv, not ours. We're the rats in the maze. Lynne Frederick - later Peter Sellers' wife - is rather wasted as token young woman, but overall it's played pretty straight.
Totals: 73 (Cinema: 18; DVD: 43; Video: 1; TV: 11)
Meanwhile, is that really all there is on Elgin's Coyote Jones? E.L. Chapman, "Sex, Satire, and Feminism in the Science Fiction of Suzette Haden Elgin"? Lefanu skips over, nothing in On Joanna Russ, not in Demand the Impossible, not Aliens and Others. Odd reviews. Adds to growing to write list.
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