do you have sex maniacs, schizophreniacs, or the astrophysicists in your family?

[kleenexwoman]

drworm is here, watching Eddie Izzard with Sammi in the living room while I work on my analysis paper on his laptop. We all are starting to smell because the hot water boiler for the entire building sprung a leak and there's no hot water for showers, but that's okay because none of us really care. (Apparently the showers in the pool locker rooms are open for cleansing purposes, but I'm not going down there because they're grubby and moldy and crawling with spiders.)

I'm doing this paper on thematic similarities and differences between Snow Crash and VALIS, and I'm having the usual problem I have with literary analysis, which is that I want to write everything at the same time instead of doing a nice, neat, linear outline and then following it. :/ and then, of course, I had to reread VALIS for the nth time and that's always a little bit crazy-making. [ETA: After outlining, convinced they're two sides of the same cosmic story. WTF. Wish I could send Stephenson a letter and ask him what he thought of VALIS, but he's a huge Aspie recluse and wouldn't answer.)

The paper is due on Friday at 5, and then I think we're going to spend the weekend just hanging out and ordering takeout and watching Man from UNCLE episodes and stuff. :) And then Monday it will probably be back to the grind, but that's okay, because Seth is going to be here for a few months and I only have less than a month to go in the whole semester.

Comments

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

Yes,
yes, and
yes.

Mmm . . . summer college dungeon madness.

[ninjaking.livejournal.com]

I have Glorious and Dress To Kill on dvd. I want him to do a show at my wedding. I love Eddie Izzard. I wonder if I would be able to pay him in cake?

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I would be able to pay him in cake?
I bet you could, because he knows very well what the alternative always is.

[ninjaking.livejournal.com]

death!

[superfinemind.livejournal.com]

I'm curious if you have thoughts as to how Gibson's Virtual Light fits into this picture.

As I am too lazy to check the dates, I can't actually solidify my theory into one: either Stephenson read VL and wrote a parody that his editor didn't think was a parody and so ran it as a novel on its own merits, or Gibson read Snow Crash and said, "I can do so much better," and did.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually read "Virtual Light." Gibson's earlier work has always been harder for me to get through than his later stuff. I will check it out when I have a free day, though...