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Intermission...
Nov. 7th, 2011 05:46 pmIt's the Writers' Group tonight, and I'm very behind on my scribbling, so this'll be brief.
My latest consignment of second hand books arrive today - yay!! so I'm a very happy bunny. Somehow, my 'Non FIction To Read' list always seems to hover around the forty mark - it's forty-one right now. Meanwhile, I'm wading my way through the Arabian Nights Entertainment, which I picked up in a second hand bookshop a couple of years ago and finally got around to reading. I suppose it was Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade that piqued my interest at first: I've since discovered (upon reaching page 322 out of 800+ that a number of the stories seem to have very similar themes behind them, usually involving faithless women, over-inquisitive men, transformation or transmutation of some kind (into animals or even stone) and numerous floggings with ox-pizzles. Strange, but fascinating, and probably the original use of the cliff-hanger...
And now a piece of useless information for my Antipodean friends. Evidently, Mr Busby who salvaged the Earl of Dalkeith (with its cargo of iron pipes bound for Glasgow) later emigrated to Australia. He was a mineral surveyor and engineer: amongst his many exploits were salvaging a ship off the coast of New Zealand and designing (and presumably implementing the building of) the water supply to Sydney. It's a small world, isn't it?
I'd better go now. For the rest of the week, I shall be treating you to a feast of Romanesque architecture, with visits to Buildwas Abbey and Much Wenlock Priory. I can't wait!!!
My latest consignment of second hand books arrive today - yay!! so I'm a very happy bunny. Somehow, my 'Non FIction To Read' list always seems to hover around the forty mark - it's forty-one right now. Meanwhile, I'm wading my way through the Arabian Nights Entertainment, which I picked up in a second hand bookshop a couple of years ago and finally got around to reading. I suppose it was Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade that piqued my interest at first: I've since discovered (upon reaching page 322 out of 800+ that a number of the stories seem to have very similar themes behind them, usually involving faithless women, over-inquisitive men, transformation or transmutation of some kind (into animals or even stone) and numerous floggings with ox-pizzles. Strange, but fascinating, and probably the original use of the cliff-hanger...
And now a piece of useless information for my Antipodean friends. Evidently, Mr Busby who salvaged the Earl of Dalkeith (with its cargo of iron pipes bound for Glasgow) later emigrated to Australia. He was a mineral surveyor and engineer: amongst his many exploits were salvaging a ship off the coast of New Zealand and designing (and presumably implementing the building of) the water supply to Sydney. It's a small world, isn't it?
I'd better go now. For the rest of the week, I shall be treating you to a feast of Romanesque architecture, with visits to Buildwas Abbey and Much Wenlock Priory. I can't wait!!!
