Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

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  • My annual Gothic: /Wuthering Heights/, by Emily Brontë

    This year, I finished my annual classic Gothic novel on October 27, making /Wuthering Heights/ probably the best-fitting to my reading speed of any of my annual Gothics; usually, I either finish early enough to start a second, or don't /quite/ finish. The year before last, I found /The Old English Baron/ to be much shorter than its inspiration, /Udolpho/, and managed to fit in the longer – and more to my taste – /The Monk/. Five years ago I found I had forgotten quite how long /Dracula/ was, and ended up finishing it a few days into November. This month, I got distracted for a few days mid-month by /Revolutionary Demonology/ by Gruppo di Nun, but reminded myself I needed to set it aside to finish /Wuthering Heights/.

    It was a bit of an outlier in my Gothic reading, being neither especially early (at 1847), nor does it have supernatural elements like the other late ones I've looked at. It's also got a better literary reputation than most of the others, so it was interesting to see what's Gothic about it, and what makes it of literary merit.

• Technology and Free Software

  • winter is coming, or something like that

    got some new projects i've been working on coming over the horizon, and excited to share them with more folks when they're finished up and ready (all FOSS), as well as some new music. been playing some games as well that i've slept on, with my favorite lately being *stardew valley*, a cozy little indie game i had heard of for ages but only just around to playing over the last little while.