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[rhivolution]

Dearest internet, I have no good way of telling people when Twitter goes down, because TWITTER HAS GONE DOWN. So you get a post about it.

Oh, my soul.

Also, I have a migraine. And there is a new Simon's Cat. I'm tempted to update my icon with this year's holiday SC instead.


ETA: Twitter is back. I neglected to mention that like others, I'm remembering Russell Hoban, who I think of every time I eat bread or toast with jam. Seriously, every time.

Hoban had this to say about writing which is entirely too true:

I dont have nothing only words to put down on paper. Its so hard. Some times theres mor in the emty paper nor there is when you get the writing down on it. You try to word the big things and they tern ther backs on you. Yet youwl see stanning stoans and ther backs wil talk to you.
(Riddley Walker, 1983)

I sometimes wonder if I was the only person in Bill Oram's '04 class to get a lot out of that book...as a geek looking at language drift and cultural drift, I think it speaks more to me with a few years hindsight.

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[jesse_the_k]

Lordy, I was busy busy working as a graphic artist and having several mental breakdowns and hypomania is just the thing for decoding Riddley Walker. By the end of the book, I was actually able to understand stuff so I rushed back to the beginning to be able to enjoy while I read.

I loved how the reader's experience of decoding it parallels the slow rebuilding of civilizashun.