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Back in Palermo today and back to work.. it’s actually quite cold by our standards this morning (8° at 6.30am) but it feels warmer after the Romanian mountains!
This weekend we have a conference, and also something called ‘standardisation’ which needs to be done once a year… maybe a strange concept, but it’s quite useful.
I’m going on a pottery course, like potter’s wheel. What the fuck should I do? A bowl? A vase? A fucking clay carafe? I’m told the wheel is super hard and I’ve never done any pottery. Maybe a ceramic plate or mug or something like that at school actually, but not with a wheel.
It is a bit unfortunate that so many people know classics just from the adaptations and not from the books. Even if you think you know it because you have seen xyz adaptation, the books are often sooo different. And one of the books where it’s most obvious is Dracula. I was having a bit of a reread last night to get rid of some brain fog. The entire book is told via letters (so it is an epistolary) and has a sort of collaborative storytelling, told from the point of view of many different characters. It makes the whole thing a lot more mysterious than the adaptations. Most men in the book are just idiots. There is like one sensible person, Mina and they never let her actually do or know anything. And the book starts with an extensive accoutn of the marriage proposals that Lucy Westenra gets (until the ripe old age of 19 she didn’t get any, and within one day she gets three! Can you believe it?? Wasn’t this book supposed to be about vampires 🙄).
After recently rewatching Pride and Prejudice I started listening to way too many book analysis video essays, and I must write and enemies to lovers story for Valentine’s Day. The problem is it’s tomorrow, so I have a few hours, and I don’t know why two people would be enemies. Why do they dislike each other and then start to like each other all of a sudden? I need to come up with something.