Lisbeth, so as not to bore everyone, let's correspond by our own email addresses (off-list), okay? I want to hear more about your book. Charlie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisbeth Jardine" <lisjardine@msn.com> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 9:55 PM Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] introduce myself > Indeed! I presume "Charlie Anne" is female? But it's not entirely > strange. A couple of months ago I wrote to editor of Al Ahram, an online > newspaper from Cairo, Egypt, thanking them for publishing an article by > Adonis, a Syrian poet who's been nominated for Nobel in Literature, on > what Iraq mess is about. They published my little letter on-line, > and --this is the kicker-- the letter above mine was from someone from > Sequim (altho' I couldn't find his name in phone book--but then, I'm > unlisted as well). When I moved to P.A. two years ago, I had thought > about P.T., but I hate tourists. I had a friend a few years back who > lived in P.T. and had visited several times. I'm not utterly enamored of > P.A., but I had thought I was going to have to end up in Aberdeen or some > such, and I'm glad I didn't. Back in April, I had an article in the > "Vigilance": Homosexual Cheeseburgers (not my title). Sometimes when I > see all that goes on in P.T., I sort of wish I hadn't decided on P.! > A., but c'est la vie. Actually, I'm starting to set my sites on Victoria, > BC, as a compromise btw. Seattle, Vancouver, BC, and rather limited > (intellectual resources wise) P.A. > > So, tell me a little about you, please. > > Lisbeth Jardine > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charlie Petersen" <charliep@olypen.com> > To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 9:07 PM > Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] introduce myself > > >> Hi Lisbeth - >> I'm your neighbor in Port Townsend, what a way to meet! >> Charlie Anne Petersen >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Lisbeth Jardine" <lisjardine@msn.com> >> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 1:28 PM >> Subject: [<orcadia>] introduce myself >> >> >>> Hello, my name is Lisbeth Jardine. I live in Port Angeles, Washington, >>> U.S.A., just 17 miles across the Strait of Juan da Fuca from Victoria, >>> B.C. >>> >>> My interest in the Orkney Islands has to do with a novel I've written >>> and >>> hoping might be published fairly soon. It's called The Female Creature. >>> It's about the 2nd, the female creature, Victor Frankenstein, on one of >>> the smallest and most remote of Orkney skars--some "five miles from the >>> mainland" Mary Shelley wrote (and anyone who's got a good guess of which >>> of Orkney's she may have had in mind is most welcome to get in contact >>> with me; the question is "did she mean the mainland of Scotland or the >>> Orkney "Mainland"?)--nearly completed the female creature and then >>> fearing >>> that "future generations will think of me as a pest," tore her apart, >>> put >>> the parts into a giant Orcadian basket (that's my addition), put the >>> basket into his skiff, sailed out into the North Sea, dropped the basket >>> overboard, and sailed away from that spot. At any rate, to write the >>> story of what happens after that, I've had to do a fair amount of >>> research >>> on the Orkney Islands. And the Creature, at t! >>> he end of Frankenstein is not dead. Girl + boy = gotta meet. >>> >>> Lisbeth Jardine >>> >>> >>> ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >>> To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the >>> word >>> 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >>> >> >> >> ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >> To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the >> word >> 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >> >> > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >