Week 47
09.23.02
Whoa, I wonder what's going on here.
http://www1.odn.ne.jp/graveuryy/
objetgallery1.html
Something very delicate, refined, Gothic and Japanese apparently.
Got her number, that's the Comtesse Castiglione.
http://www1.odn.ne.jp/graveuryy/
aremini.html
She was the 19th century's top royal seductress and also a photography
freak.
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/
LaDivineComtesse/comtesse_more.asp
Walter De La Mare, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde
http://www1.odn.ne.jp/graveuryy/
objetgallery2.html
The bookstore's not much help.
http://www1.odn.ne.jp/graveuryy/
bookgallery.html
You know, there are still such things as mystery and romance in the
world.
09.24.02
M. E. Braddon was always my favorite Victorian sensation novelist. Most period thriller
consumers had no idea that M. E. stood for "Mary Elizabeth." Her stuff is freakier than
you would think.
http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/
bradbio.htm
The early years of bitter struggle treading the boards as a wink-wink, snigger,
"actress."
http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/
literarylives.htm
Her breakout bestseller.
http://www.litrix.com/laudley/laudl001.htm
The old gal could really churn that product. That was a quill pen, too, none of
this word-processing nonsense.
http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/
bradtexts.html
http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/
bradbib1.html
How Braddon gets turned into contemporary British TV fodder.
http://www.cix.co.uk/~drdoom/film/
bradconf.htm
09.25.02
Holy cow, I never knew that people from the Society for Creative
Anachronism >were that kinky. Spare my blushes, you mead-swilling naughty
rascals, you.
http://www.folump.com/#EROTIC
09.26.02
Once upon a time I met Tanith Lee. She was wearing a chain-mail headdress, and
had big, opaque, smoky eyes. "How're you, Tanith?" I drawled. "I'm a huge
fan!"
"That's not my real name, you know," Tanith said, and after a
brief exchange of authorly pleasantries she excused herself and
fled.
Our Tanith has got some very out-there readers.
http://www.sepulchritude.com/shop/
books-idx.html
09.27.02
The Voyager spacecraft is out somewhere at the heliopause, attracting
interstellar space grit as mankind's most distant object. Meanwhile, back on
Earth the remaining veterans of the enterprise wax nostalgic about their
youth in the 1970s. Nice job with the Chuck Berry analog recording,
folks.
http://www.planetary.org/voyager25/
index.html
Bruce Sterling writes books like Darwin watched animals. Find out more about him,
and read tattered electronic copies of Cheap Truth, at the
Bruce Sterling Online Index.
He lives with his wife Nancy and their two daughters in Austin, Texas.
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