#amreading: About the Frog Who Turns Out to Be Something Else Trope

June 4, 2017 at 8:48 pm (Books, Personal Bookshelf, Sundays, Surprises, Traveling)
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  • . . .  there is another very ancient Hindu legend, wherein Bheki, the frog, is a beautiful maiden who consents to wed a King on the extraordinary condition that he shall never show her a drop of water. Being faint, on one occasion, she is said to have asked for water, and he thoughtlessly giving her some, she immediately disappeared.

— Sax Rohmer, The Romance of Sorcery

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“First Causes” Quarterly West, Issue # 89

June 4, 2017 at 7:04 pm (Artists and Writers, Filipino Writers, Links, Publishers, Sundays, Women Writers, Writing)
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Read it at Sixth Engine in Washington DC, at a group reading organized by Quarterly West in conjunction with AWP February 2017. The editors took a chance with this one, it’s all fractured syntax and stars a professor named Fire Lizard. Self is writing a sequel right now.

What a blast:

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Quarterly West reading at Sixth Engine, Washington DC, February 2017

Discussion of the First Corollary: What is average is perfect. Thoughts dark as dark. Big arguing with her. But but but. Her winking at me behind his back. Me thinking: sunlight and glass.

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#amreading: About Fairy Wives

June 4, 2017 at 5:52 pm (Books, Personal Bookshelf, Sundays, Traveling)
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  • In the legends and folk stories of nearly all countries, we find the enchanted-spouse motif occurring again and again, and some very curious parallels exist between such fables of the East and of the West; so that the idea of the fairy wife would appear to be common to all peoples, or traceable to some parent legend of remote antiquity.

— Sax Rohmer, The Romance of Sorcery

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Friends, Self Will Be Home Soon!

June 4, 2017 at 6:09 am (destinations, Lists, Places, postaday, Sundays)
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The Beach at Capitola
101 North

Missing home and friends and familiar places:

  • The beach at Capitola
  • Highway 101 on the northbound approach to San Francisco
  • The sculpture garden in the de Young Museum
  • More Capitola beaches

Stay tuned.

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