Oh, I'm gonna go to the special hell.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers  

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Am-Chau Yarkona - Nov 21, 2003 9:12:16 am PST #6673 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

On a totally unrelated sideline, I once heard a very funny radio sketch which involved Roget-- but not Roget as the biographies portray him: this Roget was obssesed with sex. Each sentance would start out normally, "I was walking down the road..." go into a list of alternatives, "lane, alleyway," and end up with something porny, "passage, back passage, entrance, opening, hole, vagina..."

Okay, so that wasn't a great example. But it was a very Buffista sketch, in many ways, and I'm sorry I don't own a copy on tape. t /tangent


erikaj - Nov 21, 2003 9:37:26 am PST #6674 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!

I've no clue what "belletristic" means. None.


Dana - Nov 21, 2003 9:38:35 am PST #6675 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

None of us did either.

And she used it in a drabble. There's no excuse for using that word in a drabble.


§ ita § - Nov 21, 2003 9:39:54 am PST #6676 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

From M-W (because I certainly didn't know):

a writer of belles lettres, literature that is an end in itself and not merely informative;


Nutty - Nov 21, 2003 9:40:36 am PST #6677 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I think it relates to belles letres? Lessee --

Main Entry: bel·le·trist Pronunciation: bel-'le-trist Function: noun Etymology: belles lettres Date: 1816 : a writer of belles lettres - bel·le·tris·tic /"be-l&-'tris-tik/ adjective

So, yeah, I gather it means someone who writes pretty. (Or wrote pretty, in France, in 1816.)

Am-Chau, that skit sounds like an old Benny Hill thing I saw once, where a "feminist" lady teacher was replacing all the masculine words with feminine equivalents. It was a story about Sandy and Womandy, the second of whom was very intellilady.


Lyra Jane - Nov 21, 2003 9:40:48 am PST #6678 of 10000
Up with the sun

Without checking a dictionary, I know belle lettres are sort of personal essays/criticism, so I'd guess it means something like "personal writings-like." It is kind of obscure and unnecessary for use in a drabble, however.

Edit: And x-post.


erikaj - Nov 21, 2003 9:44:47 am PST #6679 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!

Funky. And I've got a good vocabulary...despite my preference for cursing and words like "funky". I don't get that confused that often.


Micole - Nov 21, 2003 9:48:13 am PST #6680 of 10000
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.

She's got a cadre of adoring fans who apparently find this stuff arousing.

Please tell me you're joking.


Dana - Nov 21, 2003 9:48:57 am PST #6681 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Please tell me you're joking.

Honey, you know you can't make this shit up.


erikaj - Nov 21, 2003 9:53:01 am PST #6682 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!

There are some...women in particular, that kind of get high offmetaphor for metaphors' sake...me age 15. And I would laugh at the golf course, but I wrote garbage dumpster love...so no soup or moral high ground for me.