Member: rareflorida

I enjoyed your review of "Their Eyes...". I think you are ready to read PUSH by Sapphire. I would love to hear your perspective on that one.

God's Peace,
Charlotte-Marie

posted by CharlotteMarie at 11:28 am (EST) on Sep 23, 2009

I've been terrible with my communication lately. You're partly responsible. :) I've been thoroughly engrossed in The Uses of Enchantment, which is very good, even if the author is very Freudian over Jungian. Good stuff.

Thank you again for lending me some new reading material. I'm enjoying it immensely and will be getting it back to you shortly. Hopefully. Maybe. :)

posted by Schehezerade at 2:19 pm (EST) on Sep 18, 2009

Hi rareflorida, thanks for accepting the add request. Have you read or heard anything about cobras breeding in the wild in Florida. The pythons are in the news often but I once got a tidbit of news about cobras in the wild in your state. I guess they would be in central Florida . I'm having fun looking through your library here, thanks.

posted by firthcultist at 12:23 am (EST) on May 29, 2009

People just have to read the Priapia or Martial to realize that the Romans weren't all a bunch of stuffy philosophers and statesmen. Good, funny stuff.

posted by Schehezerade at 10:53 pm (EST) on Apr 9, 2009

That does indeed look interesting. I've added it to my BM list.

How have you been lately?

posted by Schehezerade at 3:24 am (EST) on Apr 7, 2009

I admit, I'm intrigued by what you've written so far. I'm curious to see where it goes from there. Perhaps when you write more you'll send it on to me?

How are things lately? I know I haven't written in a while. I'm a terrible correspondent, I know. How's the weather down in Florida? We just had some family visit from down there and they say they're experiencing temperatures up in the eighties already.

Enjoy the Lewis Hyde book. Trickster Makes This World is a cornerstone for trickster mythology studies. It should be required reading in mythology classes, where everyone is focused on their sun gods and music gods and gods of death and whatnot. Trickster is the deity closest to human, so it's a wonder that he/she gets less attention than the others.

posted by Schehezerade at 7:26 pm (EST) on Feb 15, 2009

I suspect that in the future we might benefit from
swapping email addresses, as our replies keep getting longer and longer. That pyrogrrl moniker was thought up when I was in the eighth grade- it's stuck with me ever since. I've always been fascinated by fire. Don't know why- I just am.
Jung, Campbell, and Huxley are all big on my Christmas wishlist this year. Jung and Campbell for their views on psychology and mythology, and Huxley for his fiction and his philosophical views. Huxley is also a proponent of using drugs to reach a better understanding of the world.
You spoke of the mescaline experience. I've attempted Hunter S. Thompson in the past, but never finished reading him for one reason and another.
I've done guided spirit journeys in Navajo sweat lodges, which is what I assume a guided memory tour would be like.
You caught me out on my trickster fascination. I have a deep love for the tricksters in mythology. My screen name is indeed a nod to Richard Burton's character of the 1,001 Nights. The weird spelling of the name is a nod to
Edgar Alan Poe, who used that particular spelling in one of his stories.
Aristophanes is brilliant. His plays are relevant today as much as they were thousands of years ago. He's up there with Shakespeare and Goethe, as far as I'm concerned.
I would be honored to read whatever portions of your book you feel comfortable with sharing with me. The framework structure, the linguistic and mythological components, all of it sounds very interesting.Don't give up on getting it published. I've heard that even bestselling authors have to work really hard, literally going through hundreds of publishing houses before they find someone that will take them. It's just a matter of persistance.
That's very true about Cussler. It's also something I feel about Stephen King and Dean Koontz. Both of those authors also churn out a lot of good ideas- they just get caught in the morass of bad writing they do.
I didn't know that about SAF. That's too bad. That's one of the few sitesthat I've actually felt comfortable with sharing my problems with people in.

posted by Schehezerade at 8:48 pm (EST) on Nov 21, 2008

I appreciate what you said in your private post. I did indeed add the Chuck P. book to my wish list on BookMooch.

The null tag is when I leave the tag box empty when I add a book from Amazon. One of these days I'll go back and fix all the tags, but for right now, the sheer number of books I have is daunting.

I'll definitely look into the Project Gutenberg site. Thank you for pointing that out to me. I have a tendency to download a lot of books onto my iPod for long trips and the like.

Those pics are from California. As far as I know, the whole of South Dakota only has three festivals that are anywhere close to what I used to from California.

Florida is on my list of places to go before I die. My father and mother recently visited there for their anniversary and they said the water was so blue it defied description. I'll have to make sure to coordinate my visit with some pirate festivities.

Talk to you later, and take care.

posted by Schehezerade at 4:43 pm (EST) on Nov 16, 2008

I haven't read Niven's "Inferno" yet, but it's only a matter of time. I always thought that the genetic memory in "Dune" might be possible with some training. We've only discovered a fraction of what the brain is capable of with all our science- who knows?
I noticed that you had Hugo's "The Man Who Laughs" on your Shelfari site. I've been looking and looking for a copy of that book that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. I see you rated it highly. That makes me want to read it even more. Hopefully someone will put it up on BookMooch or Amazon in time for me to do a little Christmas shopping.
Ancestry is a fascinating thing. My own family has more than its share of crooks, con men, and privateers. It would be interesting to read your story, when you get it down on paper. I'm fascinated by the interaction between different cultures, like that of your Spanish and African ancestor.
Thanks for the well wishes.

posted by Schehezerade at 4:52 pm (EST) on Nov 10, 2008

I love stuff by Gary Jennings. I can trace my interest in the cultures of Central and South America back to reading Aztec for the first time. I confess that I lean more toward early Greek and Roman history, African history in general, and, of course, my pirates.

That book on Anna Kingsley looks very interesting. Let me know what you thought of it.

posted by Schehezerade at 5:10 pm (EST) on Nov 9, 2008