Tintin

[incandescens]

Actually quite a fruitful day at work. Finished off with everyone pitching in to stick address labels on envelopes -- it's nearly time to send out the Data Quarterly Review (with associated Coding Clinic insert) and there are many, many places for it to be sent to.

Roll on the electronic update which lets us do this all via email.

The weather has got cold and is staying cold. The sky is a pretty clear blue-grey which does nothing to raise the temperature.

Picked up a secondhand book about Herge and his Tintin cartoons today. Very interesting, especially as it showed prints of the cartoons in their original format, and how they were later altered when they were put into coloured collections -- both in terms of changes of dialogue (to tighten the story, or to remove pieces to which readers might have taken offence) and in terms of changes of costume or art where Herge felt he could be more accurate or do it better. Fascinating. A good pickup.

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Lucasta Replies To Lovelace

Tell me not, friend, you are unkind,
If ink and books laid by,
You turn up in a uniform
Looking all smart and spry.

I thought your ink one horrid smudge,
Your books one pile of trash,
And with less fear of smear embrace
A sword, a belt, a sash.

Yet this inconstancy forgive,
Though gold lace I adore,
I could not love the lace so much
Loved I not Lovelace more.

-- GK Chesterton

Comments

[summer-queen.livejournal.com]

One of the oddest things I stumbled across in Harajuku last year was a Tintin museum in an alleyway. It's been closed both times I've been by, so I haven't wandered in. But at some point I will.

[incandescens]

Interesting. Incidentally, iirc, one of the earliest Tintin books, The Blue Lotus, was very pro-Chinese and anti-Japanese. It was written in the 30s, with a lot of close input from Chang, a Chinese friend that Herge made, and was the first time he really tried to get input about a country where he was setting an adventure, rather than just hitting a few textbooks.

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

I adore the poem of the day. It is so delightfully snarky.

[incandescens]

It's neat. :) It's one of a small set of "reply to" poems which Chesterton wrote, and the best of them, I think.