More thinking about "What next?"

[pegkerr]

Have been doing more thinking about an entry kijjohnson wrote, where she said she needs to identify some key pieces of research in order to get going on the monkey book.

It made me realize, I'm still missing something key, too. Architecture. I've been thinking about Minneapolis magic, but missing this thing about Solveig, the passion of her life. I really know nothing about it. What about architecture? What does this book have to do with Solveig-as-architect . . . something about space and place, and how it is designed, and artistry, etc.? How does that relate thematically to heart of flesh/heart of stone? How does being an architect help Solveig defeat Rolf?

When I was researching The Wild Swans, I got hooked on reading gay periodicals to get inside Sean and Elias's culture (and I'm still hooked on them, five years later). I need to read what Solveig reads. What do architects read? *Sigh.* I assume that their professional periodicals are expensive and harder to obtain than copies of the sorts of things I was reading when writing The Wild Swans: Lavender and The Advocate, etc. What are the key books about architecture that I need to read?

It's probably time to call or e-mail Inga again.

Peg

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

There's an architecture museum downtown, would you like me to go in there sometime before Minicon and pick up whatever bumph they have around for you? It may all be in French, of course, but it might be worth looking. Is there an architecture school at a nearby university you could check out?

Also, on magic and space, have you read Dame Frances Yates book on memory palaces?