Helprin's Winter's Tale?
How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious.
Wash ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - Apr 25, 2005 6:30:12 am PDT #8664 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Kate P. - Apr 25, 2005 6:31:17 am PDT #8665 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Jose Saramago? Haruki Murakami?
sumi - Apr 25, 2005 6:32:09 am PDT #8666 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Italo Calvino?
Alice Hoffman?
ChiKat - Apr 25, 2005 6:33:09 am PDT #8667 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Except, would that be appropriate for Kat's students?
Yeah, there's that. I don't know what age she teaches. It is a bit racy (and so so good!).
Some Isabel Allende? Or Kafka's Metamorphosis? Beloved?
JohnSweden - Apr 25, 2005 6:33:13 am PDT #8668 of 10001
I can't even.
Matt Ruff, Fool on the Hill?
ETA (more modern fairy tale than magic realism, although ... Also, I was wracking my brain for inappropriateness, and I don't think there is any, but I watch Deadwood for fun, so I'm not sure I'm a good judge.)
Dana - Apr 25, 2005 6:52:38 am PDT #8669 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
§ ita § - Apr 25, 2005 7:00:40 am PDT #8670 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
With many shows that we associate with ''quality'' entertainment -- ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show,'' ''Murphy Brown,'' ''Frasier'' -- the intelligence arrives fully formed in the words and actions of the characters on-screen. They say witty things to one another and avoid lapsing into tired sitcom cliches
Which Frasier was that? Was that the one with the funny misunderstanding? I love that one.
Connie Neil - Apr 25, 2005 7:05:20 am PDT #8671 of 10001
brillig
Which Frasier was that?
I liked the one where Frasier was afraid Niles was going to go "howling across the moors" over Daphne, "Wuthering Heights" references being fairly skimpy in modern sitcoms.
tommyrot - Apr 25, 2005 7:06:12 am PDT #8672 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Happy Anzac day for folks in Oz and New Zealand.
Fred Pete - Apr 25, 2005 7:09:32 am PDT #8673 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Which Frasier was that?
Frasier could be great farce. There was also a Valentine's Day ep in which David Hyde Pierce -- singlehandedly -- had me ROTFL in the last of the great silent one-reelers.
Though that's hardly in the "saying witty things to one another" category.