Melusine and I can certainly get into the most curious and involved of conversations in email sometimes.
While our latest email conversation is probably FAR too curious to speak of much in a public post, there was this silly frivolous bit at the tail end of our emails this morning that I just felt like extracting and posting.
Call it whim. Call it thirst. Call it Ishmael.
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ME: .... Do remember -- I'm not intrinsically optimistic by nature, so if I say IT CAN BE SURMOUNTED, it can be surmounted.MELUSINE: Heh! I know -- and I have watched you surmount many seemingly oppressive situations!
ME: Let's make up a new cocktail concoction and call it the SURMOUNT. What should be in it, do you think?
MELUSINE: Now THAT is the most stimulating drinking concept I've heard in the last few dozen weeks! We shall ponder -- and then we shall concoct -- and then -- we shall QUAFF!
Recipe forthcoming. After the pondering.
Over on Sepulchritude, Kallisti put together a new blog called SepulchriNews for the four Sepulchritude editors (Kallisti, Melusine, le Marquis, and moi) to use. Its main function is for us to be able to announce our new and upcoming material, although we're intending to use it for a couple other things as well. Including general blather, no doubt.
October 16, 1854: Oscar Wilde was born.
drawing from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, January 1882
Incidentally, a few other literary notables share Oscar's birthday, including Noah Webster (1758), Eugene O'Neill (1888), and Gunter Grass (1927).
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Also in 1854, on October 20, another of my personal favorite poets was born:
Arthur Rimbaud.
drawing of Rimbaud by Verlaine
