More From The Twilight Zone

Last night I was watching a couple of episodes of the fourth season of the original The Twilight Zone. The first one was "Mute" about a young girl who is brought up to communicate soley through telepathy, and has never learned how to speak or listen, but when her parents die in an accident she finds herself trapped in a world with which she is unable to communicate. The second story was called "Death Ship", a creepy science-fiction ghost story, in which the crew of a spaceship explore a mysterious planet only to discover a crashed ship that seems to be identical to their own, with a dead crew on board which look exactly like themselves. Both of the episodes were written by Richard Matheson, author of I am Legend.

I was also watching an episode of a 1960s show called Adam Adamant Lives!, about an Edwardian "gentleman adventurer" who finds himself frozen in 1902 by his enemies and is revived in the 1960s, where he gets into various bizarre adventures (including one I saw about a group of killer charity workers who conceal weapons in their collecting tins). The main character never really worried much about killing his enemies, but he was always very polite about it.

I subscribed to a couple of books last night from a site called Daily Lit, which sends books in short daily segments via e-mail, and it's free for the older books. I subscribed to The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, and another thing called Poems of Inspiration, which I thought might help cheer me up when I get depressed. They were both free.

The rest of the day has been really quiet, and dull, as usual.