Cambridge, I'm coming!

[wiseheart]

So, it's offficial now. From 19-23 June, Mom and my not-so-humble self will be roaming the streets of Cambridge. Poor inhabitants...

In any case, if anyone in that area would like to meet me, e-mail me privately, so that we can forge Evil Plans (TM).

On other news, I haven't written a word for a week or more. Which is frustrating, but I'm just not in the right mind for it.

Of course, the fact that I've just acquired seven additional volumes of Brother Cadfael books, might have to do something with it. That, and all the stress of organizing the Cambridge trip.

Six days until earonn's arrival. Hooray!

Ummm... what else? I forgot. Ah, well, I can still edit the entry later.

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[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

Hooked on Cadfael...heh heh heh.

[Dear Despot Diary: It's working. Slowly, but surely, I am luring her into another fandom. And once she is distracted, then I will POUNCE and SEIZE CONTROL of the new AND old Edhellond sites. Bru-ha-ha!!!! TTFN, DD! The Tyrant-in-Waiting]

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yep, Cadfael is really addictive. But I won't be writing Cadfael fic for a long while yet, if ever. Even though I think I'd be doing a better work than some other people, due to my first-hand knowledge of the life in a Benedictine convent. And of Catholic theology.

But the author has a very distinctive writing style, giving all her characters a certain naive charme that is very hard to match. I found this story (http://www.steveconrad.co.uk/cadfael/inthenameofthefather.html) on one of the Cadfael fanpage, and although the author is supposed to be a professional screenwriter, I find that she'd completely misunderstood what the Cadfael stories are about. Gratutious scenes of a naked woman straddling our good (and fairly old) monk, for however noble and helpful reasons, just don't have anything to do in a Cadfael story. Or even screenplay.

Besides, for me a good part of the charm is in the descriptions. I haven't seen the TV-series (only saw pictures and was fairly unhappy with the visuals, especially where Hugh Beringar is concerned), but I find it hard to imagine that the mere bones of a plot could rise up to Ellis Peters' world created by beautiful and very unique descriptions. Inner dialogues and a very subtly delivered POV just doesn't work on screen very well.

I could be wrong, of course. But the visuals really do bother me. I've imagined Cadfael very differently, and while I don't doubt that Derek Jacobi is a great actor (not that I'd have ever seen him anywhere), his looks clash with my imagination. The same is true for Hugh.