I have been spinning more than knitting lately. This is merino and silk. I added beads to the first single, then spun a plain single and then plied them. I have more of the roving and have ordered more beads to finish the rest and hope to have enough for a shawl.
It is cold today after being hot enough to run the air conditioning. Today the heat is on.
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Hello, It was amazing to be in Georgia with it being hot and dry and then come down to Texas and have it be cold and wet. Yesterday it was around 35 degrees F and raining. Today it got a little warmer, but not a lot. It seems strange on the surface, especially from our point of view, but really, lots of things happen throughout time that would be much stranger even, to us. That is, we have a narrow point of view. But as a species, we probably have a much broader point of view than most others. Unless considered collectively, but that’s a much broader time scale than a few generations of humans can relate to.
I am hoping for a relatively cool and wet summer for Texas this year.
Did you enjoy the Novel by C. McCarthy??
I have wanted to start reading some of his work but have not tried it yet. I'm still working on Michener's ALASKA and Faulkner's ABSALOM, ABSALUM. I doubt that I will ever get through Faulkner's Novel. I did enjoy reading his short stories when I was younger: THE BEAR was great! But I have never been able to get into any of his novels. I decided that I should put forth the effort and read more of his work when someone we all know well stated that he was reading one and I thought that as a fellow Southerner, and as someone who even lived for a time in Mississippi, that I really should follow his queue and be more familiar with this work. But it is difficult. Faulkner must have been a genius, because for me that would most easily explain my difficulties with his works. I believe that if someone were to offer me a million American dollars for naming the Father of Modernist Literature then I would simply state Faulkner. I know they would say I’m wrong, but for a million I would bet that it was Faulkner. Anyone who knows anything could set me strait quickly, I am sure. I’d guess that they would inform me of Joyce, et al!?!?
Except that I would disagree with the idea that literature before 1900 was not interested in social, cultural, and historical change, as some have classified the Stratification of literary history! I Can’t believe that any important work of literature throughout history and even Pre-history hasn’t had a significant interest in these changes, although I would easily agree however that modernist literature has achieved a difference in Technical presentation which may allow an interpretation never before deemed acceptable, but did these members of the Modernists school become members by virtue of simple timing; some sort of collaboration; or, an attempt after the fact that there needed to be some effort at an explanation of this group of writers some of whom are even highly readable(Conrad has always been a favorite), not that Faulkner isn’t enjoyable as when one is into it(finally!) and not concerned about trying to understand but to just be within it then at those times it does flow; or, was it an attempt to fill and maintain University positions?
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