faustus: (seventies)
( May. 2nd, 2010 12:18 am)
Last night I found my copy of The Custodians, so I read "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" in the bath today. I thought I had a copy. It was on my dining table, and bought in Windsor in 2001. I have no memory of being in Windsor then. Ah, Windsor, Melbourne. Good job I checked.

Reading:

LII: Richard Cowper, Twilight of Briareus (1974)
Thriller set before and during a new ice age - more psi powers on display and more time travel ish stuff. Disappeared into a manuscript to avoid a proper ending.

LIII: C.J. Cherryh, Gate of Ivrel (1976)
First of the Morgaine trilogy - with pages that are bad Scrabble hands ("Delo'ruv was in Addhgno..."). Volume two tomorrow, volume three Monday.

I also finished watching season one of The Clangers, which gets political toward the end. I might watch season two next.
faustus: (seventies)
( Apr. 28th, 2010 12:59 am)
Barely a half day - the morning spent watching King Kong (the 1970s incarnation) and lunch over an episode of The Clangers (I suspect with a BDO, and why does their planet not rotate? I'd already noted their six hour clock). In between:

XLVI: Philip K. Dick, Radio Free Albemuth. I'll write this up on next year's reread.

Unfortunately, too much of the early afternoon was taken up with deciding which books to take with me in case I finish one, that I didn't have time to read. And I wonder if being convinced that I have two copies of The Custodians and none of The Road to Corlay is the reason why I have The Road to Corlay and none of, yes, you've guessed it. If there was an edition of the trilogy featuring "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", this is not it. (I read it - in about 1984, I'm sure...)

Tomorrow's reading will be done on trains.
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