Wednesday, February 26, 2003
I think I'm even less awake today, though it's a bit later than my post yesterday. The strange, largely forgotten-upon-awaking-dreams continue. I was going to bitch about the weather, but I just saw a doppler map for the country and I think I'll skip that one. We're very lucky down here in Atlanta. I could gloat, but I'm too sleepy.
This business of a title for the next novel, which might be The Queen of Shadows, is attracting more e-mail than usual. Here are a couple (posting them helps me stave off having to think for a few more minutes). The first, from one Harry Chaplin, offers a curious translation of part of my entry from yesterday. I quote:
But I thought it was obvious that what you were thinking was this:
HI GREG111!!1 LOL THX!!11111 OMG AT LEAST U KNOW WUT A FADA IS IF ONLY I HAD A NIKEL FOR 3VERYONA WHOD DECIEDD IT WASNT WORTH TEH TROUBLE 2 INCLUDE TEH GAEILGE ACANT!1!! AT ANY RAET ARGH1!11 WTF (NO IMM NOT TRYNG 2 SOUND LIEK A PIRAET — TAHT WAS AN ARGH OF FRUSTRATION THEN AGANE MAYB PIRAETS R JUST FRUSTRAETD WRIETRS WIT WODAN LEGS)!!11 OMG ID FORGOTAN ABOUT DA T111!11! OMG WTF H!!1!11 WTF LOL WHIET BOK B/C ITS ALSO KNOWN AS TEH WITCH IN DA WOD (1939)!1!!!! LOL MORAOVAR I WASNT EVAN R OF DA FACT TAHT THEYRE A PU ANDERSON COLACTION (1978) OF TEH SMA TITLA UNTIL I DID A GOGLA S3ARCH JUST NOW1!1!!11 WTF LOL AND RILLY TEH QUEN OF LIGHT AND SHADOW MIGHT B 2 CLOS3 BY MAH OWN REKONNG!1!1! OMG WTF LOL I DO LIEK DA WAY IT FLOWS BUT DISLIEK UNINTENTIONAL ALUSION (ANTI-ALUSION)?!!?!!! WTF WHICH TAHT WUD CONSTITUT311!!1 LOL MAH 3DI2R MIGHT B JUST FIEN WIT IT MAYB BUT IT WUD PROBABLY BUG MA FOR YAARS!!!!! OMG SO NOW I HAEV 2 WONDER IF DA QUEN OF SHADOWS IS STIL GOD!!!1!1! OMG PROBABLY AS GOD AS IT 3VER WAS!!1!!!1 AND I SHUD AD I SENSA SOM3THNG FUNDMENTALY UNNATURAL ABOUT TRYNG 2 CHOSA A NM3 IN FRONT OF TEH WHOLA WAB-BROWSNG BLOGER-READNG WORLD11!!11! WTF A BIT LIEK CHANGNG ON3S PANTEIS ON A CROWDED FREWAY I SUSPECT11!11!! LOL BUT I START3D IT!!!! OMG LOL AND ITS NO MORE UNATURAL THAN UNNATURAL AFTER AL !1!111!1 OMG LOL
So, that's what I was really thinking, hmmm? I suppose that explains the splitting headaches and nosebleeds, or vice versa. The next e-mail, from one Dennis Howard, is a little easier on those of us still clinging foolishly to English:
I just started reading your weblog recently and I've been enjoying it. But about that changing your panties on the freeway thing -- you remember, don't you, that Roger Zelazny wrote a novel called Jack of Shadows?
Queen, Jack. Someone else can write the Ace and King novels. :)
Hell. Maybe I'll just called the dratted thing Book Four and be done with it. That does have a certain postmodern something or another about it that would at least sit well with the academics. "Kiernan has boldly eschewed the distracting and antiquated baggage of a title beyond the self-evident, exploring the potential links between minimalist signification and fundamental narrative divisions blah blah blah." I could do better, though. Book 4. Or just B4, which could serve double duty as a title and an allusion to this story's role in overall scheme of things. Wait. I'm not even sure what I'm talking about anymore.
Anyway, yesterday Spooky and I proofread chapters Two and Three of Low Red Moon. I think Chapter Three is one of my best pieces of writing to date (every now and again I get to say something really cheeky like that). I also worked on a bit of an interview that I'm doing by e-mail (I do most interviews by e-mail). My comp copies of Bast: Eternity Game Part 3 arrived. Today I have to send a new short story off to Gothic.Net (I'll let you know when it goes online), take the signature sheets for the Embrace the Mutation chapbook to the p.o., read chapters Four and Five, and wait for a call from my Hollywood agent.
And I have to remind you to watch Farscape on Friday night. If you want to know more, follow the frelling link. You're all big boys and girls.
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