literary musing

I've always been mildly suspicious of the popularity Jonathan Carroll enjoys in Poland. I didn't want to like his books, though I did read a fair few. The ideas were strange, twisted, making me uncomfortable in weird ways.

I think I was just too young for them. I need to re-read. For now, his blog is brilliant - I've gone one month back and already I've got a page of food-for-thought quotes. (It's got an LJ feed, too.)

"Love is the potent force that tears off all masks, and men who run away from love do so in order that they may preserve their masks."

-PD Ouspensky

Now if this isn't a motto for either a superhero fanfic or a Phantom of the Opera one...

Link dumping continued

It hurts less not to think at all, I guess. Today is automatic pilot and distracting myself.

A treasure-trove of folk tales and essays on same

Which includes the original version of Amleth, Prince of Denmark. Among other things, Amleth gets all the nobles who support his uncle drunk, then ties them up with the tapestry his mother made according to his designs, and sets fire to the palace. I love the uncut versions of fairytales ^_^

Tales from the "Liberry" is a librarian's blog, with links to other librarians' blogs. Somewhere in the back of my mind there's a ponytailed and earring-wearing guy who hides from his past in a small-town library, and his friend the young assistant priest at the town church, and the grifter woman in the Rolls Royce Phantom V with a hand holding a crystal ball instead of the Spirit of Ecstasy. Some day I might even know what their story is.

I've got a long list of various Phantom of the Opera meta that's been percolating on the back burner for a while now, but I'll wait until I have some icons, too.