Day 659

Aka Tuesday 20^th November 2018

Today I read Sarah Horrocks’s ‘The Bacchae’, which is a rush. and reminded me of the comics that feature in some of Grant Morrison's stories, comics that are weird and otherworldly and have weird and wonderful effects on the people that read them 😊 Even the envelopes Sarah’s comics come in make me think of Deep Throat’s in dark car parks handing over secret documents to Fox Mulder style investigators!

 

I’ve only read the Wikipedia entry on ‘The Bacchae’, so I don’t know much about it, so I might be missing a couple of inferences/references, but Sarah’s ‘The Bacchae’ is a great, vivid read:

...and I was drawn into the world of Bacchae and left wanting more when I got to the end. As Pentheus takes action against Tiresias, having his house burnt down, and calls for Dionysusto be brought before him. It reminded me of the feeling you get just before a thunder storm, when the air gets charged and you can feel something primal and violent coming. 8/10. Looking forward to future issues.

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…and the middling continues, with needing to cheat on a fifth of the clues again (five out of 24), it was a bit like replacing old shower sealant, most peels away fine, but there’s a few patches that just won’t go, except in this case there were just a few clues which wouldn’t budge! But I did learn that an ‘adult insect’ is called an ‘imago’, that ‘Hobart’ is the ‘Australian state capital’ and that ‘Inch’ is a ‘small Scottish island’, which makes me wonder if it was named after the measurement or if the measurement was named after it or if it’s just a coincidence?