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which_chickI've simply got to train the cat to barf in areas of the house that are not major walkways.
This evening for dinner, I have tatie-n-lentil-n-mushroom stew, a delightful concotion of taties and mushrooms and lentils and other stuff, including parsely and mace. It's yummy and I made enough to take to grandma and Heather tomorrow. I also need to make bread for dinner, which I will start as soon as I am done with this posting.
It takes a while, yeah. The bread will be hot and fresh some four or five hours hence, which isn't really all *that* bad, considering. The major question is what to do with my time between now and supper when the bread's ready. I have Option A: The Country Wife (a restoration-era play by Wycherley) or Option B: the latest Elf Porn book (IV in a continuing series), which arrived today in paperback and which I started at lunch. There's already been a murder in the Elf Porn book so there will be plot (and quite probably some detectoring) along with the fucking. On the other hand, The Country Wife has one joke about adultery and two about VD in the first three pages. It's probably going to continue on in that vein and the dialogue is made almost entirely of snark. It's way better than in the Elf Porn book on that front.
Decisions, decisions!
Y'know, I was seriously considering the elf porn book but having read the intro to The Country Wife, I think we're going to go with the restoration comedy. Yowza.
About the author: He married unwisely, fell out of favor at Court, spent seven years in prison for debt, and wasted the remainder of his life writing bad verse. (Not making this up. That's exactly what it says. Not only is that the sort of writing that I really do LOL about, now I'm beset with a burning urge to waste the remainder of my life writing bad verse.)
On modish thought in Restoration London: Libertinism was consistent with nature and therefore good; the only sin was sexual hypocrisy.
On the play itself: The comedy is a brutal picture of a decadent society
I do believe I'm up for some decadent society, thanks. The elf porn will have to wait.
This evening for dinner, I have tatie-n-lentil-n-mushroom stew, a delightful concotion of taties and mushrooms and lentils and other stuff, including parsely and mace. It's yummy and I made enough to take to grandma and Heather tomorrow. I also need to make bread for dinner, which I will start as soon as I am done with this posting.
It takes a while, yeah. The bread will be hot and fresh some four or five hours hence, which isn't really all *that* bad, considering. The major question is what to do with my time between now and supper when the bread's ready. I have Option A: The Country Wife (a restoration-era play by Wycherley) or Option B: the latest Elf Porn book (IV in a continuing series), which arrived today in paperback and which I started at lunch. There's already been a murder in the Elf Porn book so there will be plot (and quite probably some detectoring) along with the fucking. On the other hand, The Country Wife has one joke about adultery and two about VD in the first three pages. It's probably going to continue on in that vein and the dialogue is made almost entirely of snark. It's way better than in the Elf Porn book on that front.
Decisions, decisions!
Y'know, I was seriously considering the elf porn book but having read the intro to The Country Wife, I think we're going to go with the restoration comedy. Yowza.
About the author: He married unwisely, fell out of favor at Court, spent seven years in prison for debt, and wasted the remainder of his life writing bad verse. (Not making this up. That's exactly what it says. Not only is that the sort of writing that I really do LOL about, now I'm beset with a burning urge to waste the remainder of my life writing bad verse.)
On modish thought in Restoration London: Libertinism was consistent with nature and therefore good; the only sin was sexual hypocrisy.
On the play itself: The comedy is a brutal picture of a decadent society
I do believe I'm up for some decadent society, thanks. The elf porn will have to wait.
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Date: 2006-11-29 02:03 am (UTC)Re: the stew, is there more to it than "just throw the aforementioned ingredients in the pot together"?
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Date: 2006-11-29 11:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-29 05:26 am (UTC)(It's online, at http://publish.uwo.ca/~shroyer/authors/Wycherley/texts/country_wife.html . Also, the Wikipedia article on it is surprisingly full-featured.)
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Date: 2006-11-29 07:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-29 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-29 08:29 pm (UTC)