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[marshtide]

Apparently I'm boring today. If I tried to post properly it would start out trying to be about Rose of Versailles or Irene Adler or in fact crossdressing as portrayed in Stuff What I Like generally, or how Murakami kind of only has one story and I somehow fail to mind, or whatever, and would devolve within sentences into a detailed explanation of where I buy my tea from in Stockholm and why and how terrible the tea you can buy in Swedish supermarkets is, with a possible aside on the concept of fika. I know this would happen because I tried, several times. (I did go all the way to Stockholm with the primary purpose of buying tea today, but somehow suspect that a blow-by-blow account is not actually needed.)


Alternative entertainment until such a time as I'm less dull:

oursin posts about queer womanhood in the late C19th at queering_holmes.

I'm still staring at queering_holmes with undisguised admiration, but I don't feel intelligent enough for participation today. I am, however, making notes.

&

valborg posts about a book called The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe.

I mention this partly as a flawless segue into the fact that the person known on this journal as Val is more generally known to Dreamwidth as valborg. Just so you know. Also because, you know, crossdressing.

Comments

[marshtide]

Well, I think it's one of those things... I can't read too much Murakami at once, because his stories are in the main all about a very ordinary man to whom some weird stuff happens which is never really explained, and probably a woman who vanishes, but I keep on going back to his stuff over and over. The thing he does works, and I keep not being sure that it actually should. But it does.

You're quite welcome. :)

[clopen]

It probably feels something like eating too much dessert all at once XD Yeah, weird stuff! Sometimes his books irritate me but I still find myself reading on ... do you like Banana Yoshimoto? She also seems to have that understated-strange-stuff-going-on thing.

[marshtide]

I've only read one of her books - Kitchen, of course - but I found it really interesting & I've been meaning to read more.