Livre d'Or

Ooh, and tangents prompted by comments above;

1) Your remark about Yiddish is extra-interesting in light of the stuff in the Lansky book which is in my mind right now, would *love* to talk to you more about this some time if that doesn't come across as excessive prying/cultural tourism? (I was genuinely disturbed by the bits in the book about Hebrew scholars purposely destroying Yiddish books; my reverence for texts of all kinds may be excessive).

I wonder if something like this is involved in the reason why I tend to be so vocal about my Jewish activities and identity, because people can't tell from looking at me and I don't particularly want to be invisible (in spite of the obvious advantages).

I definitely wonder this about pagan-type things too. I'm insufficiently inclined to wander round in a long velvet cloak, tie-dyed dress and pentacle the size of a soup plate! ;-)

2) Shapely Prose article: some good stuff. A lot of similar ideas to Jennifer Baumgarder's book about bi women, "Look Both Ways", which was both fascinating and infuriating, and which I'd recommend reading if you haven't already, just for the parts where she assesses how loving women benefits women in later relationships with male partners (frustrating combination of insightful and appropriative, IMHO). Worth a peek, anyway - I meant to review it after picking up a copy in the US last year, but, as usual, didn't get round to it.