...so I thought that I would take some time to write another journal of little consequence.

I'm actually going to try to start drawing again, surprisingly. (And you all thought I had given it up!) I posted a work-in-progress last week (you knew that, though), which I am going to update hopefully today. I haven't gotten much farther, but I'm going to try to give myself a break on the basis that I haven't done this for a while...

After that one is done I will probably do a Jane Eyre picture. Or maybe something from Pride and Prejudice or Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde or The Picture of Dorian Gray. I don't know yet. But I obviously have a good deal of 19th-century writing on my mind - that is my latest obsession. I love the formality, and the courtesy, and the way characters speak as if words actually had meaning (there is a shortage of that these days).
And on the other hand, I love how so many stories involve characters trying to understand the workings of the mind - human nature - and dealing with a world that is quickly progressing. Stevenson deals a lot with those ideas - I recently discovered a book of his "dark" short stories that I never even knew existed, and am now completely in love with them. Who knew "The Suicide Club" was a Victorian industrial satire (witty, if horrifying) before it was distorted into an angsty anime movie? I didn't.