J A Clarke

@janeeyrie

I write high fantasy with low characters. Poetry too. Fond of: folk tales, birds, peace, concept albums, 3rd spaces, woodruff cordial Follows are def not endorsement of any/all of someone’s views. I use Bsky for news!

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J A Clarke@janeeyrie· Jul 11

This weekend I’m reading something which has been mouldering in my TBR pile for years: “Flatland” by Edwin A. Abbott! It’s pleasantly weird and a recognisable influence on other works, judging from what I’ve read thus far… #Booksky #AmReading

A picture of the cover, on which multicoloured cubes are depicted.

J A Clarke@janeeyrie· Jun 20

BBC: “Poland, however, accuses the UPA of carrying out a genocide of ethnic Poles in Volhynia (now Volyn in Ukraine) in 1943-45.” Accuses? Seriously? Below is a picture from the UPA’s Lipniki massacre in 1943. Here’s the Wikipedia about this and another massacre en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacr...

The grainy black-and-white photo shows dead men, women and children lying on the ground in three to four rows. On the picket fence behind, three coats have been hung. Three living people seem to be identifying or simply looking over the human devastation.

J A Clarke@janeeyrie· Apr 27

A relatable entry from “The Journal of a Disappointed Man” by W. N. P. Barbellion. I’m loving this book and reading it slowly, which is something its author would appreciate, I think. #BookSky

Railway Travel.
A journey in a railway train makes me sentimental. If I enter the compartment a robust-minded, cheerful youth, fresh and whistling from a walk by the sea, yet, as soon as I am settled down in one corner and the train is rattling along past fields, woods, towns, and painted stations, I find myself indulging in a saccharine sadness—very toothsome and jolly. I pull a long face and gaze out of the window wistfully and look sad. But I am really happy-and incredibly sentimental.

J A Clarke@janeeyrie· Apr 18

Excerpt from “The sea of sleep” by Norman MacCaig, 1981. Published by Polygon Books. #poetry #scotland

The sea of sleep

Some float gently ashore. They lie
with their shoulders on the sand
till the sea ebbs.

Others splash violently through the shallows and collapse panting
at high water mark.

I, king dolphin of the sea of sleep,
leap ashore - rising in air as dolphin,
landing as man.

J A Clarke@janeeyrie· Dec 29

I’m Tang Sanzang, Buddhist monk, attempting to bring enlightening sutras back from India. Unfortunately, demons keep trying to eat me. It’s distressing, but it doesn’t prevent me from sermonising about it. Nothing prevents me from sermonising.

Square containing this text: You are now forced to have the same job as the main character in the last book you read.
What is the job?

J A Clarke@janeeyrie· Dec 9

You will be visited by three spirits

The Lone Gunmen characters from The X-files

J A Clarke@janeeyrie· Nov 19

Upon the hard crest of a snow-drift
We tread, and grown quiet, we walk
On towards my house, white, enchanted;
Our mood is too tender for talk.

And sweeter than music, this dream now Come true, the low boughs of the firs
That sway as we brush them in passing,
The slight silver clink of your spurs.

- The poem "Snow” by Anna Akhmatova, written 1917 and translated by Babette Deutsch for "Poetry” Magazine, August 1947

J A Clarke@janeeyrie· Nov 11

I just read the 1818 version and it doesn’t seem to be in there, which is very interesting! The start of the chapter has this: "Clerval desired the intercourse of the men of genius and talent who flourished at this time" and I’ve taken a pic of the same section you mentioned, I hope! Here ‘tis

"But in Clerval I saw the image of my former self; he was inquisitive, and anxious to gain experience and instruction.
The difference of manners which he observed was to him an inexhaustible source of instruction and amusement. He was for ever busy; and the only check to his enjoyments was my sorrowful and dejected mien. I tried to conceal this as much as possible, that I might not debar him from the pleasures natural to one who was…"

J A Clarke@janeeyrie· Jul 7

I absolutely bought this for the title. And also Ursula LeGuin. #BookSky #scifi #UrsulaLeGuin