Notes from the Labyrinth
Unobtainium and Dragons' Bones
Some update-y sorts of things 
9th-Feb-2013 04:57 pm
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1. I have work again. Yay!

2. Clarkesworld: Year Three is now available (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.). "White Charles" is in it if you're trying to find print versions of the uncollected Booth stories, and in general Clarkesworld is made of awesome.

3. This month's Apex Magazine is Shakespeare-centric; I contributed an essay about Hamlet and the Reformation, "Welcome to the Reformation, Bitches," which explains why pepole saying Hamlet's fatal flaw is indecision gives me a homicidal nervous tic.
Comments 
10th-Feb-2013 12:03 am (UTC)
Work is good!
10th-Feb-2013 12:16 am (UTC)
Congratulations!
10th-Feb-2013 12:29 am (UTC)
*waves*!
10th-Feb-2013 01:45 am (UTC)
"Welcome to the Reformation, Bitches,"

That's terrific. Thank you.
10th-Feb-2013 01:51 am (UTC)
I really enjoyed the essay. Thank you!
10th-Feb-2013 02:36 am (UTC)
*waves* Congratulations on re-employment.
10th-Feb-2013 02:46 am (UTC) - Odyssey Con
Do you plan to attend Odyssey Con this year? Just asking.
-L.
24th-Feb-2013 03:05 pm (UTC) - Re: Odyssey Con
Yes, I think I can make it.
10th-Feb-2013 03:12 am (UTC)
Yay work!
10th-Feb-2013 03:22 am (UTC)
Hurrah on the work! I hope things are going well for you otherwise, in terms of writing and sleep and so on.
10th-Feb-2013 05:12 am (UTC)
Re the essay: Oh, that's nifty!
10th-Feb-2013 03:52 pm (UTC)
Yay work. Also, good essay.

---L.
10th-Feb-2013 04:27 pm (UTC)
"Welcome to the Reformation, Bitches," is an excellent example of the kind of cross-disciplinary work I wish happened more often. People too often think they can study their chosen subject in a vacuum. But there's no field of study that doesn't get a big infusion of win by also studying history/sociology/biology/language/mathematics/theology/philosophy/et cetera, and the history of the study of those things. In other words, I liked that essay. *g*
10th-Feb-2013 10:47 pm (UTC)
Wow, awesome essay!

(How did I never realize that the setting is contemporary? I assumed it took place in pre-reformation Denmark, and that if Hamlet had any doubts about Purgatory, he'd picked them up in Wittenburg.)

Not sure whether the blanket "revenge is wrong" at the end works, though. Did people really believe that in all cases, now or then? Especially when it's the king who's done it, so it would be extremely difficult to achieve justice any other way?



Edited at 2013-02-10 10:48 pm (UTC)
11th-Feb-2013 07:34 am (UTC)
Oh, that's an excellent essay.

Nine
12th-Feb-2013 02:58 am (UTC)
That is a deeply awesome essay that increases my appreciation of Hamlet--thank you! And congratulations on the job!
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