It’s Not the Cough that Carries You Off…
December 1, 2011 in Blogs
…It’s the coffin they carry you off in.
Susan Margaret Adams Kirkegard said that often in the times we knew her. Cancer put her in hers earlier this year, and so the phrase has some melancholy to it; but it comes to mind because I have been unwell. As I mentioned last time, the night after the parade I became feverish, and lost almost all of Monday and probably part of Tuesday to this illness. Indeed, I am not certain quite that even now I am alright, but I also managed to transmit the bug to my wife, who missed two days of work and required my feeble assistance in caring for her. Perhaps ironically, in the midst of this we also had to meet a deadline for handing in forms to continue our health care coverage, one of several significant errands which cut into my time yesterday.
Today’s Examiner temporal anomalies article is very much about a coffin–Redferne’s coffin, in which he discovers his own corpse and the third part of the vile grimoire he must keep from the Warlock. Warlock part 2: cough, cough begins discussing why this is significant, and why it is a problem, recalling that he is not the first time traveler to discover his own grave.
I did read the previously mentioned Eric Ashley articles. They were not as good as the new one today, I think. Practise Bits: Troy seems a rather incongruous title for what is an excellent descriptive action piece with a resourceful central character. Thanks for writing it.
I have been poking at the articles for Blackadder Back & Forth, which is coming together despite the fact that it is impossible in more ways than I have yet uncovered. It is a very funny show from start to finish, that my wife, who is not particularly interested in time travel, has watched it twice in a week, and we both have sung snatches of the closing theme at odd moments. Readership has slackened (although it often does when a new movie is introduced, picking up as the series continues), and I’m hoping that the popularity of this Rowan Atkinson classic will bring a few new readers.
–M. J. Young
Tadeusz said on December 1, 2011
With ‘Magic’ I explain a magic system. With ‘Petrification’, the title is more obscure because I intended to get to the point where petrified roots are blocking the passage to a secret cache of alien tech. With ‘Troy’, again I did not get to where the title would make sense…but the city Troy is down the coast from where the hero is …and the dark sea is the Black Sea.
M. J. Young said on December 2, 2011
Ah.
I’ve seen the Black Sea. It’s actually blue. It’s only dark on rainy days, I think.
Hey, it’s one of the precious few exotic places in the world that I have actually been.
–M. J. Young