cellini's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A New Work I've written more fun stuff. Building on the ancilliary materials I wrote for Trish's story last week. This is essentially a new project, set in London, 1910. It's centered around the S@vile Club, which if you google it or read the Wikipedia entry you will find is a very convenient setting for a work of fiction. The plots present themselves very easily when you see who the members were. Presently I have neither the time nor the inclination to write the whole thing myself, so I just dash off a few paragraphs here and there and send them to Trish. She is really putting it all together. I came up with the concept and the basic plot, I write choice passages and send her articles and biographies of people who I think ought to be included one way or another. Really, it's sort of the opposite of Alan Moore's 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.' His work was/is an amalgam of every Victorian work of fiction, drawing all of those differentfictional universes and characters into a single work. Wheras what we're doing is pulling together every noteworthy figure of the era who actually existed and putting them into one fictional work. Anyway, that is generally what I am up to. I must tell you that I have dug up the most interesting people of that time whom the whole world has totally forgotten. A young woman of minor nomility who twice attempted to kill herself, first by eating rancid sardines and next by laying naked in the snow for a time. Her father was a bisexual Home Secretary in Parliament and I believe that the father, the son and both daughters all fucked the same Member of Parliament (a trustee of the Britism Museum, Secretary of State for the Colonies, etc.) Budge, the great Egyptologist of that era, figures as a central character. It turns out that Bram Stoker was alive and well and in London at the time and was a complete asshole. I believe that he will be one of our villians. Really, the more that you read about Bram Stoker the more you will despise him. I see Stoker as very much in opposition to Budge, perhaps attempting to censor Budge's work due to it's influence on people like Crowley and Frazer and general encouragement of the pagan mysticism that was in fashion at the time. Stoker was a great advocate of government censorship and a crusader for what he saw as morality in art and literature. So I'm thinking that Stoker has information about Harcourt's habits of fucking young men and uses it as blackmail to force Harcourt to use his position as a Trustee of the British Museam to pressure Budge (who worked there) into censoring his translations. Budge is sort of hapless, but his friends at the S@vile Club (which really did include Kipling, Yeats, H. Rider Haggard, H. G. Wells and other luminaries) fight back on his behalf. A standing rivalry with the Aeth3neum Club seems in order. 2:09 p.m. - 2008-12-02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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