funny line, followed by an update

At dinner tonight, following on a discussion of writers whose work is so densely packed with quotation and allusion that you sometimes feel hopelessly out of the loop:

"Dorothy Dunnett is the Quentin Tarantino of the sixteenth century."

(And also possibly the fifteenth, but I still haven't read the Niccolo books.)

Anyway, arkessian and skirmish_of_wit asked recently about the Lymond book-blogging. The answer is that I do intend to return to it, but at the moment that's pending me setting up a separate Wordpress blog for the project. See, the problem with an LJ filter is that you have to be on LJ to read the posts, but I also don't want to intersperse the Lymond material with everything else I post here; I really feel it needs to be separate, so those who haven't read the series are less tempted to horribly spoil it for themselves. And I want to experiment with Wordpress anyway, so this seems like a good guinea-pig project. But that's waiting on my webhost migrating to new hardware, ergo it will be a little while yet. Hang in there, though, and I'll be sure to announce it when I start the project up again.

In the meantime, if you have no idea what I'm talking about, go read this post. And if you've both read the whole series and have an LJ account you'd like added to the filter so you can see the posts for The Game of Kings (the only book I've really blogged so far), please let me know.

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The funny thing about motivation is how it sneaks up on you, without any warning or fanfare at all.

Weeks of a messy office and piles of e-mail I couldn't bring myself to keep up with -- and then in the last couple of days my office has been restored to something more like a livable state, and both e-mail inboxes are starting to come under control.

I can't promise the motivation will last, but I'm trying to make use of it while it's visiting.