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choco_froshsovay gave me ""three things that I may or may not know or care about," viz: Deserts, Energy drinks, and Claude Cahun.As it turns out, I DON'T know or care deeply about any of the above, but I'm gonna give it a stab anyway!
Deserts: I read this, had to double-check that it didn't say "desserts" (which I do know and care about a great deal), and had a flashback to that one "BC" strip. Anyway.
I've lived in various places, and visited more, and various branches of my family originated from/lived in yet others; but none of them are deserts. Heck, I haven't even been to the Desert of Maine. I see photos taken by friends who ARE from/have visited deserts: it's as bizarre and alien a landscape as...my first thought is Mars, which kinda IS a desert. Maybe one of those places with mineral springs that have deposits in colors you didn't think should exist in nature?
So what I want to observe about deserts is that they were similarly alien to medieval Europeans; but simultaneously, they were fundamental to medieval Christianity's sense of its origins. Israel in the wilderness; the Desert Fathers.* So you get the bizarre phenomenon of people who have never seen a desert trying to imagine one, and frequently imagining - and even drawing - it as a deserted place--which in a climate like the one I and they naturally expect, means "a lot of trees".
Energy Drinks: I'm really not into. Which is perhaps odd given how much I like both caffeine and exercising. But Nope--I tend to think that they're weird at best, going on creepy.
And what the hell sort of person names a beverage after the Red Bull?!?
Claude Cahun: Man, I keep forgetting about Claude Cahun! I think they were in my Art History textbook for a split second during the discussion of Surrealism; I *definitely* should remember them from Sovay posting about them. They were way cool. Go read the Wikipedia page: I'll wait. Through it I also discovered the cool quote by the late lamented David Bowie:
"You could call her transgressive or you could call her a cross dressing Man Ray with surrealist tendencies. I find this work really quite mad, in the nicest way. Outside of France and now the UK she has not had the kind of recognition that, as a founding follower, friend and worker of the original surrealist movement, she surely deserves."
Though I think he misgendered them. Well, it was 2007: most of us weren't as woke about that back then.
Also, that leaves out the whole "Nazi Resistance Artist" bit.
When I hit the Wikipedia page, I noted that they were buried on Jèrri; and promptly looked that up and determined that yes, their resting place is indeed one of the twelve ancient parish churches of Jersey, but does not have a ring of bells. Apologies, Mx Cahun: that IS how my mind works.
Anybody else want one?
* Well, and -Mothers; but the collection of Lives is the Vitae Patrum, even though some of them were female/possibly genderqueer.
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Date: 2019-06-14 02:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-06-25 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-06-14 02:35 am (UTC)Also, can I have 3? Might use them to wind down after play tomorrow.
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Date: 2019-06-14 07:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-06-14 08:15 am (UTC)I'm so glad I asked you this question, because I didn't even know about the Desert of Maine.
And what the hell sort of person names a beverage after the Red Bull?!?
THAT WAS ALSO MY FIRST ASSOCIATION.
These were good answers for things you didn't care about!
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Date: 2019-06-14 12:08 pm (UTC)The bull on the US TV ads is cheerful and friendly.
There must be a copy of The Last Unicorn in the house, but I don't remember a single thing about it, and presumably the US marketers didn't have your association either.