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henna day post
Jan. 7th, 2018 02:31 pmI finally got my hair cut yesterday. Accordingly, today is the first Henna Day of 2018, on a mild LA winter afternoon. While most of the country deals with intense cold and snow, we've been having a pretty easy winter thus far, though we're supposed to get our first real rain of the season this week. We need it, but I'm hoping my windows won't leak (and that the recent fire areas won't get hit by mudslides).
I am about halfway through volume one of the newly issued Letters of Sylvia Plath. Also I'm rereading The Valley of Fear, which I first read as a preteen at the height of my Sherlock Holmes fanaticism. Over the holidays I watched The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935) and discovered 1) that Arthur Wontner is as excellent a Holmes as I remembered (second only to Basil Rathbone in my estimation) and 2) that, although the film is based on The Valley of Fear, I could recall almost nothing about it (to the point that I'd forgotten it was a novel and not a short story). I should reread more Holmes.
I am about halfway through volume one of the newly issued Letters of Sylvia Plath. Also I'm rereading The Valley of Fear, which I first read as a preteen at the height of my Sherlock Holmes fanaticism. Over the holidays I watched The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935) and discovered 1) that Arthur Wontner is as excellent a Holmes as I remembered (second only to Basil Rathbone in my estimation) and 2) that, although the film is based on The Valley of Fear, I could recall almost nothing about it (to the point that I'd forgotten it was a novel and not a short story). I should reread more Holmes.
