Alexx's April 2018 Patreon Update

[alexxkay]

Man, it has been a long time since I’ve updated. It was a bad winter for me, in terms of both physical and mental health. But I have started producing again.

As predicted last time, I did, by mid-December, complete:

• section 3 of “Round the Bend”, in which Lucia Joyce meets John Clare for some hot and filthy literary sex.
• Updating the Dragaera Timeline with information on Vallista. I do feel the need to say “Fuck time travel!” Still, I did manage to arrive at a set of interpretations that only accuse the author of one out-and-out error, so I feel well-accomplished.

New things completed:

• Helped annotate Cinema Purgatorio #13, with looks at English comedian Arthur Lucan and his delightful character Old Mother Riley (though Joe Linton did most of the heavy lifting on this one).
• Completed section 4 of “Round the Bend”, Chaplin films and dark days, which is an interlude in which Lucia considers how the nature of time is like a Charlie Chaplin film, and the vicissitudes of her own life during the 1920s and 1930s. Since last time, I have acquired and read Carol Loeb Shloss’ biography of Lucia Joyce (which I believe was Moore’s major source as well), so I have been able to make much more informed commentary about the biographical details versus Moore’s inventions. I’ve also started a new formatting convention, where I am putting the “most significant” annotations in boldface for those who want to just browse the highlights.

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