tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post3778369966831525795..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Reading Doña QuixoteMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-84883315047114830532017-01-14T07:16:18.123-05:002017-01-14T07:16:18.123-05:00Oh, I am sorry about the troubling dreams--though ...Oh, I am sorry about the troubling dreams--though I did laugh at the mother duck and ducklings under your bed! Perhaps she will carry you back to safety like the Hansel and Gretel duck. And to a land that is peaceful, with no ill nightmare figures like the witch and no bad candies and ovens.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-38282457241519981562017-01-14T02:14:14.055-05:002017-01-14T02:14:14.055-05:00My keyboard has a sticking-key, damn it. I type aw...My keyboard has a sticking-key, damn it. I type away confidently, missing every e, while the autocorrect works away diligently to paper over the omissions, rendering my writing completely incomprehensible.<br /><br />I enjoyed this piece enormously. Your words tumbled me into a dream. I've been having a lot of rather strange and troubling dreams recently. I prefer this Marly dream as it holdsClive Hicks-Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00573698513351018726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-53055940357266101002017-01-12T17:53:12.485-05:002017-01-12T17:53:12.485-05:00I need to be more careful about auto-correct, whic...I need to be more careful about auto-correct, which clearly has only a partial but a willful mind of its own. Re-reading is in order....<br /><br />Yes, it is me in the spirit of the thing. The first Krohn I read was "Tainaron: Mail From Another City." It's a short epistolary novel from a city of insects, pleasantly lyrical and strange. (Prime Books publish it, but now it's in Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-29350561728414497622017-01-12T16:56:29.362-05:002017-01-12T16:56:29.362-05:00It took me a while to understand who is the 'm...It took me a while to understand who is the 'me' of this but I see it is you. I didn't recognize your voice! I think I might want to read the short novel, but I'm not sure. Reading your experience of it is almost enough. (There's a no doubt autocorrect-generated typo, 'their,'at the end of the first paragraph.) After feeling disconnected and underwatery from days of Laura Frankstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02528540633399368216noreply@blogger.com