And as far as I’m concerned, her confidence is well founded: she’s a brilliant writer.
I don’t know why Winterson is controversial among English dykes, but I’ve always had the impression that she’s a controversial figure generally because she is (or seems to be) so confident about herself and her work. Thanks Kate L for bringing the geology-related puns and for keeping your students on their toes! It sounds like a pretty cool conference, but I think I can wake it up a bit more with a eye-opener 🙂 “Miscellaneous: Any other research related to dykes”. I have absolutely no clue what this one is about: “Synplutonic mafic dykes”, but I hope it is dirty.Įveryone please note that an official conference theme is: I think this one: “Dykes as plumbing system for Large Igneous Provinces”, is an exploration of blue-collar and class issues. (Paris 1920, New York 1950, Michigan annually?) See also the related “Giant dyke swarm and Supercontinents” (Is this a paper on the Santa Cruz-San Francisco-Berkeley convergence?) “Regional maps of dyke swarms and related magmatic units” Here are the highlights of the conference themes: I feel I must follow up on Kate L’s geology-themed post. I think this is Winterson’s influence, as you will see if you read her piece.īoth comments and pings are currently closed. “I suppose I should be writing racy novels in a tweed skirt and brogues, but then everybody else around here wears those.” This calls to mind my own experience of lesbian rustication here in New England, where everyone dresses like a butch dyke, even the gay men, which is sometimes confusing.īut I digress. Winterson also talks about being identified as the “homosexual authoress” in her small village. You might think a person could get through the Tailor of Gloucester in ten minutes or so, but I’m on my third night now. It’s in Gloucestershire, which is sort of interesting since I’m in the middle of reading The Tailor of Gloucester. That’s an actual place, not made up for effect. Jeanette Winterson just wrote a very funny column in The Times (UK) about buying The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For at her local bookshop, The Borzoi, in Stow-On-The-Wold.
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