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Mind paths are strange things.
Ellen Kushner tweeted about Terri Windling's blog entry about maps because it included Delia Sherman's New York Between. So, I read the blog page on my phone.
Near the end, pretty much just above the last few maps, the ones which include New York Between, Windling mentions various realms of the imagination. And one word catches my eye.
Vandarei. And all my mind is saying, as I lose myself, is "I _know_ Vandarei."
And when I come back, I boot up the computer and write about all of the above, at much greater length. And I remember that I wanted to write about something Windling said in a speech, and I mentioned this in an email from some time ago. I type a few notes about that and look for the email.
And I find it. It says that I'm trying to respond to the speech she gave as the Tolkien Lecture.
And I look up which year that would have been and find it (2016, as it turns out).
And I find out that Marlon James gave the lecture this year, and that, yes, that was the video I wanted to listen to When I Had Time.
Well, I had time. And that's how the word "Vandarei" led me back to that video, to hear that lecture. The lecture is, of course, brilliant.
Ellen Kushner tweeted about Terri Windling's blog entry about maps because it included Delia Sherman's New York Between. So, I read the blog page on my phone.
Near the end, pretty much just above the last few maps, the ones which include New York Between, Windling mentions various realms of the imagination. And one word catches my eye.
Vandarei. And all my mind is saying, as I lose myself, is "I _know_ Vandarei."
And when I come back, I boot up the computer and write about all of the above, at much greater length. And I remember that I wanted to write about something Windling said in a speech, and I mentioned this in an email from some time ago. I type a few notes about that and look for the email.
And I find it. It says that I'm trying to respond to the speech she gave as the Tolkien Lecture.
And I look up which year that would have been and find it (2016, as it turns out).
And I find out that Marlon James gave the lecture this year, and that, yes, that was the video I wanted to listen to When I Had Time.
Well, I had time. And that's how the word "Vandarei" led me back to that video, to hear that lecture. The lecture is, of course, brilliant.