a word after a word after a word is power

[lunabee34]

1. Campus closed at noon today and is closed tomorrow because of the storm. I'm crossing my fingers that we don't lose power and looking forward to a long weekend.

2. Josh's endoscopy is scheduled for 6:30 Friday at a facility an hour away, and we really should be there a little before the appt. time. OMG, we will be getting up so early.

3. My Yuletide letter got linked to meme and received almost no attention except for one person who pointed out with dismay that one of my prompts for Haunting of Hill House is straight up Scooby Doo. I had not been thinking about that prompt in those terms, but it totally is Scooby Doo. Luke is haunting up the place because he is interested in inheriting after all. Dr. Montague *really* wants tenure and can only get it if his paranormal theories gain credence. Mrs. Montague will show her husband a ghost if she has to manufacture one herself, by gum. Yep. Totally Scooby Doo. I will own it. LOL

4. Uhura's Song and We Have Always Lived in the Castle have arrived. Whooooooooo! Man, I love Janet Kagan.

Comments

[lunabee34]

Gaslighting would fit right into that!

That's what I thought! Especially since so much of Eleanor's problems seem to come from internalizing the nasty things her mom/sister had to say to about her.

They are indeed talking about Luke and Theo as a nice couple; it's a completely mundane conversation.

I did read Danse Macabre as part of my research for the paper I wrote; I think he's pretty insightful when he writes about horror and what makes it tick and why it appeals to us.

[kore]

Ooh, imagine if her sister had something to do with it too, what with the details about rocks falling and pounding on the wall and so on. Hah.

I think Mrs Dudley actually says "young master of the house" or whatever! It's HILARIOUS.

Yeah, from what I heard, that was basically his syllabus while he was teaching his brand of EngLit, and it was pretty well done, altho he alienated some friends of mine forever by dumping on grad school and Ph.D.s in it. I was like "Just ignore that, the rest of it's really good!"

[lunabee34]

I didn't read the whole thing this go-round, just the 30ish pages that were about Haunting of Hill House. At some point, I'll get around to reading the whole thing (I don't think I've ever read all of it before).

[kore]

I remember that was one of the first times I had ever seen anybody take Jackson seriously, like looking at her symbols and plots and themes seriously. (I wonder if that Castle adaptation is going to be any good....)