Betsy Devine: Funny ha-ha and/or funny peculiar

Here’s Kalilily, one of blogdom’s most famous blondes, just back from a magical visit to Maine and posing next to Blogsisters.

I just (finally) read her interview with Frank Paynter. Boy, I’m glad I didn’t read it before he interviewed me–I would have been too intimidated to say yes. She is one red-hot momma.

I love the way Elaine embodies so many different people, often all in the same sentence–mother and sexpot, dreamer and doer, bookworm and witch and warrior and more–for example, when she explains the choice of her nickname:

I came up with combining Kali — for the Lilith-related goddess of death and rebirth — and lily — for Lilith, for “Elaine the fair, Elaine the pure, Elaine the Lilymaide of Astalot.”   And there’s also my affinity for Georgia O’Keefe’s calla lilies.  One of my lovers, the one with whom I went to Paris in the spring, gave me a sterling silver ring with the shape of a calla lily.  It’s the only ring I tend to wear.  So, you see, I just love it when disparate parts of my life weave together like that.  Like a web.  Like the net.

Elaine of Kalilily is much more fun than the chaste and fair maid of Astalot, but I did find a cool page of links to texts and images of Tennyson’s idyll “Lancelot and Elaine.”