Intermission
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fiat_knoxI went to Manchester yesterday. I needed the break after my visit to London.
Oh, it was such a joy to find myself in a town that knew me, whose spirit welcomed me from the first footstep on its tarmac face. Manchester so refreshes me, like you wouldn't believe.
Mostly it's because I've been coming there since 1981, and like Chester and the other cities I patrol in, I've made those cities' spirits my friends through long acquaintance.
Anyways, yes. I overspent. Blew a vast chunk of my fortnightly budget on just three items.
World of Darkness: Midnight Roads. Banishers.
And Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls.
I would not call this book a "comic" or even a "graphic novel". I'd describe it as an illustrated novel in three parts.
I've only gone so far as the first book, but my jaw dropped the moment I pulled the first volume out of the slipcase - while the front covers of the books are innocuous enough, the back covers are unbelievably explicit. :)
I also managed to get in some more writing in the oracular journal I've been keeping - the geomancy journal one. I ought to take a photograph of the cover. It's gorgeous. I got it at Waterstone's, and it cost me, but it's well worth it in this case.
And that was the patrolling of that day.
Next, back to the story of the London trip.
Oh, it was such a joy to find myself in a town that knew me, whose spirit welcomed me from the first footstep on its tarmac face. Manchester so refreshes me, like you wouldn't believe.
Mostly it's because I've been coming there since 1981, and like Chester and the other cities I patrol in, I've made those cities' spirits my friends through long acquaintance.
Anyways, yes. I overspent. Blew a vast chunk of my fortnightly budget on just three items.
World of Darkness: Midnight Roads. Banishers.
And Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls.
I would not call this book a "comic" or even a "graphic novel". I'd describe it as an illustrated novel in three parts.
I've only gone so far as the first book, but my jaw dropped the moment I pulled the first volume out of the slipcase - while the front covers of the books are innocuous enough, the back covers are unbelievably explicit. :)
I also managed to get in some more writing in the oracular journal I've been keeping - the geomancy journal one. I ought to take a photograph of the cover. It's gorgeous. I got it at Waterstone's, and it cost me, but it's well worth it in this case.
And that was the patrolling of that day.
Next, back to the story of the London trip.
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Date: 2008-02-28 10:49 am (UTC)Cut text
Date: 2008-02-28 11:09 am (UTC)Done
Date: 2008-02-28 11:13 am (UTC)Hope that hasn't got you into trouble.
Re: Done
Date: 2008-02-28 11:25 am (UTC)Re: Done
Date: 2008-02-28 12:15 pm (UTC)Re: Done
Date: 2008-02-28 12:21 pm (UTC)its just that people dont genrally put that kind of thing out in the open on LJ, so i dont normally have to worry bout it.
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Date: 2008-02-28 03:26 pm (UTC)Long as nobody saw and there's no consequences for you, I'm all right with the pics going behind the cut.
Still and all, it's jawdroppingly beautiful. Disturbing, yes. But beautiful.
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Date: 2008-02-28 12:14 pm (UTC)