Camilla Ulleland Hoel

@camillahoel

PhD, academic (Victorian & 20th & 21st c. literature, fans: Dickens, via Sherlock Holmes, to scifi), feminist, bibliophile, geek; regularly political. She/her.

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Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· 28d

Good, though early start to the day: Esperanza Spalding and Shabaka accompanied by the seagulls at Moldejazz. Worth getting up at 6 for, though traditionally one should of course arrive at these concerts from the night before.

Morning outdoors concert surrounded by trees. Esperanza Spalding on a double base and vocals. Shabaka on sundry flutes and woodwinds. Here with a sax.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· Jul 14

I am just returning from 20 days of trains in Germany (with a touch of Austria and Hungary). Or as the photo album should probably be called, reading books in places. Heidelberg and Vienna are wholly recommended.

Me at Rügen, with a book by Eric H. Cline on Digging up Armageddon. I am sitting on a balcony, overlooking some trees and the beach/sea.

Me in Leipzig, reading The Bouchon de Cristal by Maurice Leblanc. I am on a sidewalk café (next to the excellent Rotorbooks) having a fancy limonade.

At Hawelka in Vienna, still reading Leblanc. There are two empty cups and water glasses on the table, and behind me are various pieces of art, including busts of the original owners.

Reading Eric H. Cline’s After 1177BC to take my mind of the fact that I am in a funicular in Heidelberg. It is an old kind of funicular, which is not my kind of fun.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· Jul 11

Read Sonallah Ibrahim’s Stealth as my book on a difficult/complicated relationship with parents. Strange book, which comes with some content warnings. But worth reading.

Showing cover of Stealth, where title and author name is given in white against a picture of an Egyptian man in uniform with a fez and moustache. It looks like henis wearing dark glasses, but these are cutout circles filled with a child’s eyes.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· Jul 9

Also, these medieval paintings from the Belvedere.

Two levels of paintings. The top level is fairly run-of-the-mill medieval. The bottom level has two (al least) glorious ladies who should stat in their own comics. It is mostly in the facial expressions (supercillious to fed-up/arch). The left one had a pink gown and a green sleeve, leaning on a sword set in some kind of wheel. Some person in black with a flag is talking to her, but she is looking away, possibly at lady number 2. she is dresses in red with a blue cloak. Also bored with the world and the tiny people giving her gifts. She is faced with another lady in brown and bronze, who she is ignoring. Sorry. Describing medieval painting is difficult.

Bøack man with a blue turban in the most FABULOUS pink cubist armour. I swear this is medieval.

Man in a pope hat and glasses (also the colours of the Virgin unless I am very much mistaken — actually, may be colours of Jesus. Pink and blue. He may be wearing progressive glasses because he is looking at the page of the book in front of him in a slanted way. While cradling another book. His other hand is on his knee, which is crossed over his other knee (probably there is a better way of describing this.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· Jul 9

I found these mice in Heidelberg. Not sure if they are helpful.

Brass mice, on a sandstone wall overlooking a river next to a sandstone bridge. They look very worried.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· Jul 9

While we cannot place all blame on @adriandaub.bsky.social, spending a year feeding us the choice tidbits of Victor Klemperer’s diaries did not HELP.

Photo of a portion of a stack of books. Eight of which are the diaries of Klemperer.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· Jul 9

Husband has forgotten that interrailing also requires bringing clothes and toiletries along. All the way home.

A suitcase full to the brim with books, with a small space for clothes.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· Jul 8

Suhrkamp verlag wins long-term pride game.

A book shelf where ordinary books in random cllours (though mostly white and brown) surroubd a shelf and a half of books in strong single colours forming s repeated rainbow pattern.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· Jul 4

Read the always marvellous Rabih Alameddine’s Koolaids as my book set in illness/pandemics. It serves a constellation of AIDS and the Lebanese civil war in a chaotic and horrifying but also funny and lovely set of characters, stories, and genres. Fragmented but wholly excellent. 💙📚

Cover of Koolaids against my knee and a curb. Cover shows title in yellow over a red block in bottom third. The rest is a blurred photo of a face looking perhaps worried? Sad? Small figures drawn across.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· Jun 26

Carry your grudges like archaeologists remembering those who failed to adopt good methods.

From Eric H. Cline’s Digging Up Armageddon: "Their techniques were adapted and improved upon by other archaeolo-gists. With some exceptions (notably the Irish archaeologist R.A.S. Macali-ster, who tended to ignore both stratigraphy and the precise location of the small finds that he came across while digging at the biblical site of Gezer during the periods 1902-5 and 1907-9), each archaeologist continued to improve upon the methods of the others."

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· Jun 26

Quietly amused that the guy digging up Palestine in the late 1920s was called P.L.O. Guy. I am sure I am not the first.

Photo of page from Eric Cline’s Digging Up Armageddon. Text says: «PROLOGUE
"Have Found Solomon's Stables"
Everything changed in early June 1928, when James Henry Breasted, director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, received a Western Union cablegram. Sent by P.L.O. Guy, field director of the team of excavators that Breasted had sent to dig at Megiddo, the cable read: "FIRST KINGS NINE FIFTEEN TO NINETEEN AND TEN TWENTYSIX STOP STRATUM FOUR APPARENTLY CORRESPONDS STOP BELIEVE HAVE FOUND SOLOMON'S STABLES." Considering that he had been waiting nearly three years for such a dis-covery, Breasted demonstrated remarkable restraint. He calmly cabled back a single word that same day: «CONGRATULATIONS."»

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· Jun 26

Read Sarah Cypher’s marvellous The Skin and Its Girl as my queer work from/about/by someone from Palestine and wholly recommend it. It flows like a dream, and paints people rather than characters.

The book on a grey table next to a coffee. The cover is cream with black lettering, over a painting of what looks like a female satyr/devil figure in blue red and gold. The book is marked with a circle featuring a triangle with a book and a pink dot and text noting it as the American Library Associations Stonewall Honor Book.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· Jun 22

Update: birthday mending bonanza complete!

A small tower of ten woolen garments in various shapes and sizes (and colours) leaning against a red upholstered chair.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· Jun 21

Husband wanted mending of woolens for his birthday. I will not burden you with all of them, but I am quite happy with this burgundy cardigan, which is on its third mend. It sports a number of bees. I added one more, but also invisible mends and elbow patches (over serious wear).

Found mending yarn that matches the colour, so here more or less invisibly mending a small hole at the cuff.

A triptych showing a larger hole, the mend, and a new bee to cover the mend.

Elbow patches (one above an old bee), made from study wool. Blanket stitch around, and some circles of backstitch to secure.

Cardigan being worn, an arm supported on a balcony raiing with the elvow patch to show true colours. Pride flag in the background against a blueish sky.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· Jun 7

They don’t make Heads of universities quite like Pratchett made them.

Photo of pages from Going Postal. "'I will sue the University! I will sue the University!' screamed Greenyham. He picked up a chair and hurled it at the omniscope. Halfway to the glass it turned into a small flock of doves, which panicked and soared up to the roof.
'Oh, please sue the University!' Ridcully bellowed. We've got a pond full of people who tried to sue the University-‘"

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· Jun 7

Look. I am an adult. If I want to eat the rhubarb pie I decided to make way too late at a quarter past ten in the evening, then that is my choice.

Rhubarb pie in front of a sun just thinking about setting. Also, home-made ice cream.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· Jun 5

The childlike joy of seeing thunder clouds closing in on the outdoor loud-as-fuck concert in the neighbourhood.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· Jun 3

Read Gogu Shyamala’s excellent Father May Be an Elephant and Mother Only a Small Basket, But… as my Dalit work that is not memoir or poetry. Captivating short (or little) stories, though I could have saved myself a lot of googling distraction if I had looked for the informative section in the back.

The book next to a cup of tea. The cover is black with white writing, filled in with red. Behind is a sign I cannot identify, but which I assume ha some Telugu or Dalit significance.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· Jun 3

A triptych from Celebrity Bake-Off (I think). Guy (celebrity does not mean I know who it is) says "Started making it. Had a breakdown. Bon appetite."

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· May 28

Ikke jeg heller, Christer. Ikke jeg heller.

Screenshot fra NRK. En mann med skjegg og briller ser stoisk men kanskje lett irritert ut. Overskriften er «Christer (72) gler seg ikkje til fotballfesten».

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· May 27

They tell you Storygraph is nice. They tell you it is an alternative to the Amazon-owned shit. They may mention the statistics available. They do not tell you about the danger of the charts when they start to overlap and you feel the urge to maintain the pattern forever.

A chart with two vertical axes (plural axis, not the handheld weapon), where the number of books you have read is on one and the number of pages is on the other. A blue line traces books read, a red one traces pages. In April and May they overlap (because ten books and 4000 pages are at the same height, for example). This is not an accurate representation of my reading in May: it just tells you how many books I have finished, and how long they were on average. One of them took well over a year, and I think all the pages are added to that last count. But the key thing here is that the lines (and the dots marking the month) overlap.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· May 25

Adding my usual disclaimer, though things have escalated to Assyrian takes, and I am currently reading Sophus Helle’s translation of Gilgamesh.

Cover of Gilgamesh. The name is divided in three sections in three levels, on white background, with fragments of relieffs.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· May 25

Tablet I, Ninsun to Gilgamesh, on Enkidu: "You will wrap your arms around him and love him like a wife" Literary history: Fated Friendship, Greatest of Friends, Legendary Friendship, Friendly Friends, &c. Tablet XII, *sighs*, Enkidu (dead) to Gilgamesh:

Section from Tablet XII. "My friend, my penis, which you touched to please your heart, is being eaten by a moth, like a threadbare cloth.
My friend, my crotch, which you touched to please your heart, is filed with dust, like a crack in the ground."

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· May 25

Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard-Boiled Egg! #GNUTerryPratchett

Lilacs in a bottle in front of a grey wall.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· May 23

Gilgamesh takes a turn.

Picture of book page from Sophus Helle’s translation of Gilgamesh. It says: "The name of the mountains was Twin Peaks.
He reached the Twin Peaks, that guard the rising sun each day, the peaks whose tops touch the firmament, whose roots reach down to the netherworld."

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· May 23

"Ran out of sleep" is an excellent phrasing.

Photo of four lines from Sophus Helle’s new translation of Gilgamesh. This from Tablet IV: "Gilgamesh rested his chin on his knees
and was struck by sleep, which fills the minds of men.
But at midnight he ran out of sleep so Gilgamesh got up to talk with his friend."

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· May 22

We have bumble bees! After years of trying to convince them to move into custom made housing we have arrived on a compromise where they just take over the abandoned blue tit nest.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· May 17

Can confirm.

Meg som spiser kake og drikker kaffe mens jeg myser mot sola.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· May 16

Ooookei, så jeg har akkurat hatt en samtale med et familiemedlem som påstår at NRK har fortalt dem at Wolden Bache stormet ut av studio etter at Stray Spetalen "avslørte en måte å tjene penger på som gjør vanlige folk rike på bekostning av bankene". Dette later til å være KI-disinfo/svindel.

En nettside som ser veldig ut som NRK, hvis du ser bort fra URL. Den viser Stray Spetalen og Wolden Bache i det som ser ut som NRK-studio. Overskriften er "Dere plyndrer norske familier!" — Sendingen på NRK endte i skandale: Sentralbanksjefen stormet ut av studio." Og ingressen sier "Det som skulle være en debatt om
rentehevinger og inflasjon, endte i fullstendig kaos. Øystein Stray Spetalen anklaget Norges Bank og DNB for å skjule en måte å tjene penger på som gjør vanlige folk rike på bekostning av bankene." Jeg har skrevet FAKE etter beste evne tvers over bildet, om enn med litt tynn skrift.

Camilla Ulleland Hoel@camillahoel· May 15

Read Amy Chu and Soo Lee’s take on Carmilla as my horror from the margins. I am a horror wimp but I could manage this. Not simply an adaptation of Le Fanu, I must stress.