History as Fiction

Jeffrey Ford, otherwise known as 14theditch, has written a piece over at litblog called Scratching the Surface: Ditherings About Digging History. Litblog is discussing his book The Girl in the Glass, which if you haven't read you should.

In his post, Mr Ford says:

Here’s where something happened that every future writer of an historical type novel should know.  There is this thing that happens in research that is completely metaphysical.  It defies random chance.  Do you know the word Kismet?  It can only be described as a kind of otherworldly luck.

I think that sentiment perfectly represents why I do so much historical gaming.

Its a good piece, folks should read it.

Optimistic/Cyncial: Lost Girls

Lost Girls, Alan Moore's mythic pornography comic, is once more, slated for release. This time in August. It appears more likely that this is a real date, so I'm hopeful, especially since advanced copies seem to be out there.

Nice Interview on Cinescape: part 1 and part 2.

That’s it – that little bit at the end of PETER PAN. There are other things that make PETER PAN one of the most sexual of the texts and it was, in fact, PETER PAN that first gave me the idea of the whole thing. It was just noticing all of the flying that takes place. On a simple Freudian level, flying can be read as sexual expression. And so, I thought, ‘Well, that’s interesting. I wonder if you could have a look at some of the other things and motifs of that book and actually decode them in a way.’ Irrespective of whether those stories were intended as metaphors for sexual awakening, I’d say they can, with great justification, be read as metaphors for sexual awakening.