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Dec. 29th, 2011 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
venetia_sassyDefinitely feeling better today. More alert and I didn't need to lie down at all!
But I didn't push it and kept myself quiet by reading Darwin and the Barnacle all day. A bit dense but very interesting. I'd read in other books about Darwin putting away his Origin of Species papers for eight years to study barnacles but I never knew why he did that. And having read this book, it now makes perfect sense! Also, while I still have zero interest in reading a book about barnacles, reading a book about why Darwin and others studied them does make them seem a good deal more intriguing - and relevant to Darwin's theories.
Good sleep tonight and I think (hope!) I'll be fine for Macbeth tomorrow ...
But I didn't push it and kept myself quiet by reading Darwin and the Barnacle all day. A bit dense but very interesting. I'd read in other books about Darwin putting away his Origin of Species papers for eight years to study barnacles but I never knew why he did that. And having read this book, it now makes perfect sense! Also, while I still have zero interest in reading a book about barnacles, reading a book about why Darwin and others studied them does make them seem a good deal more intriguing - and relevant to Darwin's theories.
Good sleep tonight and I think (hope!) I'll be fine for Macbeth tomorrow ...
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Date: 2011-12-29 02:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-12-29 09:19 pm (UTC)I've never been particularly interested in Darwin but a couple of years ago when I read an article about the Beagle I got a sudden fierce longing for fic with Gerard as a the young Darwin and Bob as captain FitzRoy :-)
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Date: 2012-01-10 02:52 pm (UTC)I can see 'Bob the captain and Gerard the enthusiastic and idealistic young scientist', though!
I've been trying to write a little fic (original or fanfic) for every non-fiction book I read ... I have some sailor!Bob/mapmaker!Mikey (iceberg dancing!)& naturalist!Gerard/explorer!Frank on the way. When I reread Evolution's Captain, I tried to see if I could write some captain!Bob/naturalist!Gerard ... didn't work but I did manage a little bit of Lieutenant!Bob/artist!Gerard which I think I'll post for Snowflake 10.
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Date: 2012-01-10 05:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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