I seem to be in a non-journalizing phase

[derien]

I don't seem to be writing nearly as often as I was for a while.  I could have been writing today, but I was completely absorbed in reading "Moab Is My Washpot."  Er, Stephen Fry's autobiography, if I haven't already mentioned it.  I think I have.  I love it, totally love it.  And from it I've gotten to the truth of the matter regarding his other book, "The Liar."  I hadn't been sure whether to tell the woman at the bookstore that it was fiction or autobiography, when she was looking around for it for me.  As it turns out it's one of those bastards; semi-autobiographical fiction.  And I want it.  grrr.... I'm never going to get back to reading "Psmith, Journalist" at this rate, with the huge Stephen Fry diversion.  But, I might have a much better understanding of the strange mindset of boarding school boys who have sex with other boys but are terrified of queers because of the actual love factor. 

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[derien.livejournal.com]

Personally I'm thinking that between this and "The Liar," these ought to be required reading for slasher girls! :) I'm having this "What, I thought I knew anything about how boys thought about sex? Damn, what was I thinking?" sort of reaction. It's really impacting how I'm thinking about the Mike/Psmith stories I've written. Shoot, if their school experience was anything like his, Mike shouldn't have been anything like as innocent as I represented him at seventeen. Of course, not that I really thought he should, I was kind of working with the presentation from Wodehouse, and I don't want to screw around with that too much. On the other hand Mike was fifteen, and large for his age, when he went to boarding school, NOT the thirteen that Fry was (because he was bright and pushed ahead a bit) and the older straight boys were more likely to make advances on the younger boys who could be imagined as girls.

Not that you care about all my rambling on this because you haven't read "Mike," have you? Sorry. (Um, it's on Project Gutenberg, though, that's where I read it from.)