Golly. Judith, thanks. What an amazing response. I'm just goofin' around, all I've ever done! What a good writer you are. I didn't know you were on Substack - I don't pay enough attention, obviously. Will have a read. Many thanks again.
I don’t know whether to applaud or send help. This felt like stepping into a very elegant whirlwind — footnotes flying, forgotten Taylors elbowing for space, Mavis Gallant gliding past on a picnic blanket muttering about the New Yorker. I got gloriously lost (several times), but your affection for the nearly-forgotten is so clear it made me teary — and then, just as quickly, made me laugh out loud. As a fat woman who would absolutely have taken gold in the sack race (and possibly lit a cigarette at the finish line), I feel seen. You always did know how to spin a tale. Now I need tea, a quiet room, and possibly a fainting couch.
Truth: I haven't read MG; won't. But I sure as hell like reading your stuff, which is amusingly informative and vice versa. A fertile and furtive mind you have.
Golly. Judith, thanks. What an amazing response. I'm just goofin' around, all I've ever done! What a good writer you are. I didn't know you were on Substack - I don't pay enough attention, obviously. Will have a read. Many thanks again.
I don’t know whether to applaud or send help. This felt like stepping into a very elegant whirlwind — footnotes flying, forgotten Taylors elbowing for space, Mavis Gallant gliding past on a picnic blanket muttering about the New Yorker. I got gloriously lost (several times), but your affection for the nearly-forgotten is so clear it made me teary — and then, just as quickly, made me laugh out loud. As a fat woman who would absolutely have taken gold in the sack race (and possibly lit a cigarette at the finish line), I feel seen. You always did know how to spin a tale. Now I need tea, a quiet room, and possibly a fainting couch.
Truth: I haven't read MG; won't. But I sure as hell like reading your stuff, which is amusingly informative and vice versa. A fertile and furtive mind you have.
Thank you for the heretofore unknown verb (at least to me) “to mucilage”.
It might’ve been handily applied to poor Judas, before the disembowelling began.