Sinister: Dear Eloise I was writing to say

[Cynthia Someone]

Anne wrote: 
Ithink Imagine can give Candle in the Wind a good run for its money in 
the naff olympics but you're not allowed to say that because he's dead.

--did anyone miss that? In case you did, that was very funny.  But then, 
the list has been getting cheerier and funnier (sic?) lately, and I am 
glad for it.  and I blame it on the position of the planets for all 
gloom and doom, not knowing what else to blame it on... not that I read 
those horrid horoscopes, since the people who write them obviously have 
a vendetta against me and all sagitarrians and possibly leos too ... 
they're morose and depressed and undersexed and want to spread their 
morbidity and depression and sort of absent horniness to all and sundry.

-- while everyone is on the subject of favorite writers, and Infinite 
Jest (a dreary and godless book but very funny. that book upset me), can 
anyone recommend a good Clarice Lispector book ... I'm suspecting I 
can't get through apple in the dark because my translation of it is 
terrible. If any of you are at all curious about her, she's a wonderful 
Brazilian author and a little hard/dense. She creates these very subtle, 
psychological landscapes in her novels. Please read cronicas, if you are 
inclined to check her out.  It is very easy going. In Brazilian 
newspapers, their literary figures are given space to write whatever 
they wish, columns that they call cronicas.  In them, they directly 
address the people.  They may speak of everything from carnaval to 
whatever crises and tiny rebellions that may be going on in the nation. 
Her collection is wonderful, she writes beautifully and makes my heart 
ache sometimes. 

I have no new years resolutions. I have yet to accept this penultimate 
year as the year before the end of time and 1999 will have to chase me 
down and make me plead uncle before I admit it's power over me ... no 
b&s content, I'm mourning the loss of my IYFS and Bryter Layter CDs. 
Shall that be blamed on the planets as well?  Wherever did they go?

Cynthia

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