Saturday, August 29, 2015

LONELINESS AND LOST DESIRE



Sunday March 21, 2010



A couple of days ago was fancying asking G---- whether he had read “Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner”.    The movie version aired on TVO last night, as I found out watching the interviews between pictures.  The interviewer of course is Thom Ernst, one of G----’s ‘Facebook Friends’. (Weak...)

Also was browsing my   diary a few days ago – the one of Jan 3 1999 caught my attention, where I record a dream in which a flock of geese including one named “Gus” suddenly change direction 180 degrees.  Watching Mary Tyler Moore last night – an episode where Ted uses counting rhymes to select one of two remaining spots on a football pool, one being “geese fly east, geese fly west”.  There is a character called Gus in this episode who persuades Mary to buy a helicopter for the station.  



This morning browsing an sf site found a reference to Samuel Delany’s Tales of Neveryon, with its Bridge of Lost Desire. 




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