Memeage

[dancinghorse]

Along with the fact that I'm from 1965, am Sam from "Stargate," and my inner child is 10, here's one from sartorias via janni:

Ten Things I've Done That Others on My Flist Might Not Have

1. Had tea with Prince Philip in a Cambridge college garden.

2. Flown a glider.

3. Sold six novels at once--as my first fiction sale.

4. Stayed in a youth hostel near Hadrian's Wall.

5. Spent a day riding a dozen Lipizzan and Andalusian stallions from one of the traveling shows.

6. Bred, foaled out, raised, and trained my own Lipizzan stallion.

7. Ridden the levade--voluntarily, on a trained horse.

8. Been one of two "spectators" at an international conference on Gregorian chant.

9. Frequently wear a 2300-year-old coin as a pendant.

10. Spent an afternoon with all the illuminated manuscripts from the Newnham College library.
10a. Held in my hands the original ms. of the Cambridge Songs (oak-gall censorship and all).

Comments

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Book geekage is the best. I've been in the British Library and the Beinecke, too, looking at medievalia.

Have also had tutorials in medieval lyric in which the tutor played and sang for us. And attended a midnight performance of the Harrowing of Hell from Piers Ploughman, in a medieval chapel in Cambridge.

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

I wonder what inspires book-geekage... comparatively with the species books have only been around as a media form for a short period of time. Wonder if it's Vogler-related in inspiration source?
-=Jeff=- <---instant Homer Simpson just add old book smell..mmmm yellowed paper.