There are just too many things I want to do just now, and too many that I thought I wanted to do that still cling to me. I am reading through the Oz books...all of them I can find, anyway. Hope Shanower & Smith finish as many as they can for Marvel Comics. Ozma and Dorothy will meet this fall in Marvel's version of Ozma of Oz. I'm in the RPTs now, and to me they have their own unique charm, just as the LFBs did. I love little kingdoms with their little courts, and I wish that Germany and India were still full of them :)
Am trying to get through Proclus' On Timaeus too, but it's Thomas Taylor's almost 200 year old translation, so it is a struggle. Damascius' great work will be out this year, in a modern translation~~I hope to have better luck with that; it is a foundational work of 6th-7th century thought, I believe. I want to find the time to watch Wagner's Lohengrin again, and to finish Tannhauser at last, esp. after reading Baudelaire's essay, but when will I have the time? Watching all this anime is eating up my free time...Persona, and Toradora, then on to Spice & Wolf and...and...
Have I had enough of history? I would like to find a good home for some of my books, but not if I will be filled with regret about it 5 years from now. The church fathers can go, I have had enough of them, but am I really ready to give up on William Blake, and Tolkein? Joyce went away, and I don't miss him...well maybe just that one passage at the end of Portrait of the Artist.
Aah! Help! I have really got to set my library in order...where can I find the will power.....
Nice to see someone else who appreciates the Thompson Oz books. They seem to get a bit of bad rap with a lot of more recent readers.
ReplyDeleteI think that in any fandom, if primary experience expectations are not met, then conflict will result. For example, the most recent Earthsea books do not match the expectations created by the first three. Little kingdoms are wonderful because they speak of the "family romance"...and are a great source of fun in that they mock social conventions.
ReplyDeleteThe small kingdoms also show a great level of diversity within Oz, even though it's apparently not a large country in terms of land area.
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