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Sep. 9th, 2022 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretI've written several times about how much I love Ann and Jeff Vandermeer's The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals. But also my wish that it were more detailed in its halachic analysis. I've said I wanted to write a commentary for years, but I hadn't gotten very far in that work beyond doing background Talmud and Torah study.
WOOF is the Worldcon APA (Amateur Press Association), a style of fanzine where writers writer whatever they want and print enough copies to distribute to all the other contributors. An editor then collates all the contributions and sends them out to everyone who participated. When I saw the announcement this year I decided to use it as motivation to really start the project. I wrote some analysis for all of the animals in the Imaginary Guide that begin with the letter A. Then I typeset the thing in LaTeX and submitted it for WOOF. My first ever fanzine contribution!
My goal is still to complete a commentary on the whole book, but that will take time and energy, better to do it in little chunks. I'm really pleased with what I do have, the writing feels tonally appropriate and gets at a whole array of different halachic concepts beyond what people usually talk about when they talk about these kinds of questions.
The official WOOF version will be up on the web at... some point? But you can read Sefer Chayot Agadiyot Volume 1 from this google drive link.
WOOF is the Worldcon APA (Amateur Press Association), a style of fanzine where writers writer whatever they want and print enough copies to distribute to all the other contributors. An editor then collates all the contributions and sends them out to everyone who participated. When I saw the announcement this year I decided to use it as motivation to really start the project. I wrote some analysis for all of the animals in the Imaginary Guide that begin with the letter A. Then I typeset the thing in LaTeX and submitted it for WOOF. My first ever fanzine contribution!
My goal is still to complete a commentary on the whole book, but that will take time and energy, better to do it in little chunks. I'm really pleased with what I do have, the writing feels tonally appropriate and gets at a whole array of different halachic concepts beyond what people usually talk about when they talk about these kinds of questions.
The official WOOF version will be up on the web at... some point? But you can read Sefer Chayot Agadiyot Volume 1 from this google drive link.
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Date: 2022-09-13 07:08 pm (UTC)Would it be ok to share this post to people? I think other people would love to be reminded of the book's existence and maybe interested in the fuller version.
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