Too long a day

[flemmings]

So camwyn writes that May 9 is her thirty-second birthday and I think- the first thing I think- is 'You're only celebrating for thirty seconds? Is this a New York thing?'

Finished Sethra Lavode yesterday. There is no more Paarfi, and even worse, no more Brust. This is sad. However I will express my gratitude to Mr.Brust for letting me be a Musketeer, finally. I've wanted to be a Musketeer ever since I was thirteen but Dumas wouldn't let me, le maudit phallocrate. (Now tell me phallocrate is feminine. Le con, la phalle, la phallocrate. Sure, why not?)

Should watch the last two DVDs of Samurai Champloo and check if there's anything grabworthy in Bleach vols 8-11, was it? since I dropped a hundred bucks plus on said DVDs and manga. But I think I'll take my sinuses to bed instead.

Comments

[sodzilla.livejournal.com]

...you're into The Three Musketeers? As a fandom or "just" for reading?

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Neither. I read it when I was 13 and thought a) Richelieu was cool and b) being a swordsman was cool even if the ones Dumas required me to focus on were unlikable sexist pigs. Alas there were no female swordsmen in Dumas so I had to make up my own in quite another settei. Forty years later, finally, there was Brust-- even if his swordswomen are often as kickworthy as D'artagnan and Friends. (Aliera mostly.)

[luxetumbra.livejournal.com]

Get well soon! Those last two Champloo DVDs are the best in the series.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Oh good. The series has had some high points so far so I'm glad to be seeing something of equal or better quality.

(Thank you. I shall get better when the Everything stops blooming, or June, whichever comes first.)

[incandescens]

I share your grief.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

About the lack of Paarfi? Possibly I'm just forgetting stuff that was in the first book, but it seemed to me The Viscount left a few unanswered questions. Such as, what indiscretions had Ibronka's mother been guilty of that she thought Ibronka's existence atoned for? And who was Gritta's mother? And so on.

[kate_nepveu]

Your Paarfi questions answer each other, actually. =>

Be warned that the second and third episodes on the second-to-last disc of _SC_ are complete non-plot-advancing crack, but it gets back to actual plot-advancing in the last disc.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

(blankly) Oh. I see. (Source? Or just logical conclusion?)

Even non-plot SC is fun (those guys have watched waaaay too much 8 o'clock chanbara) but plot is always Good.

[kate_nepveu]

Logical conclusion. In _Five Hundred Years After_, Garland blackmails Sennya, and they're of the right Houses.

I missed it too the first time around, and several people on Usenet reminded me of it.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you. Usenet has its, uhh, uses, I see.

[incandescens]

I have a suspicion that one of those questions answers the other.

If I remember correctly, there's a suggestion that one of Gritta's bloodlines might be Dzur. Also, Greycat says that he has some sort of hold over the Dzur heir, Ibronka's mother.

My suspicion is that Ibronka and Gritta are half-sisters, though Gritta is far the older of the pair. And that's the indiscretion in question. And also partly why Gritta has such a very definite and prejudicial dislike of Dzur.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

But of course one celebrates one's thirty-second birthday! The next big birthdays are the sixty-fourth and the hundred twenty eighth, you know, so it gets pretty far between as you go up powers of two.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I can see it now: We will observe a minute's silence for my sixty-second birthday.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

LOL! Or as the spouse gently reminds me, 'binary shift points'.

So the important birthdays are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024. Or to put it more accurately, from 1, 11, 111, 1111, 11111, 111111, ... to the next digit which requires an additional binary digit.

We shall throw you a big bash for your 64th, aka when you go from 11111 to 100000 in binary.