Well, humph.

I remember, last year, stumbling upon a DreamWidth community dedicated to transforming fanfic into original fiction. And I thought to myself: "I'm not ready to join in, yet. But when I am ready, it might give me help with Eloise."

So I went searching for it today (searching by interest), and I can't find it.

Maybe it's been deleted?

What it says on the tin: Well, humph.

Crowd-sourcing question: Shakespeare Lit-Crit --

When did it become The accepted interpretation that Caliban = Native PoC, especially because "Caliban" sounds so much like "Cannibal" that that must be what Shakespeare meant?

I have a sneaking suspicion that that's a relatively modern assumption. But I'm not sure what keywords to use in Googling to verify or dispute that.

Any ideas?

Meanwhile, I'm rereading the last few chapters of Jane Austen's Persuasion, thanks to remembering that Mrs. Smith (nee Hamilton) -- the woman who reveals the truth to our heroine about the true character of her sleazy cousin -- is: "afflicted with a severe rheumatic fever, which, finally settling in her legs, had made her for the present a cripple." which gives me another entry topic for Plato's Nightmare / Aesop's Dream. ... Any afternoon I can spend with Jane Austen is a good afternoon, in my books. And furthermore, I have it as an etext, so I can copy and paste the passages I want to cite, instead of typing them in (*Gives the side-eye to the paperback volume that wouldn't stay open, and had no paragraph breaks on any of its pages*).

So it's all good... or -- mostly good.