Spike ,'Touched'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
What book was "French Canadian bean soup" a mantra in? It seems like something from the Illuminatus trilogy, and I have this vague idea tha FCBS was significant.
I keep thinking it was from the Julian May books, though...not the Pleiocene Exile but the modern-day ones with the Remillard family. But that's probably just the French-Canadian stuff.
Whee! I was looking through Tim Goodman's blog at SFGate and in the comments from readers I came across this recommendation:
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As to reference books, Erin McKean, who writes dictionaries and stuff (and is a stone cold fox in a reference booksish sort of way... okay, so I got kind of a crush on her since seeing her speak at Clean Well-Lighted Place a couple years ago) blogged about interesting reference books a couple months ago... even better are the books mentioned in the comments section:
Posted By: curiousfool | August 02 2006 at 10:10 AM
"French Canadian bean soup"
From the last words of Dutch Schultz. And yeah, from the Illuminatus trilogy. Uncle Bob had Dutch's last words as some kinda dada-esque/Joycean code for all the wacky conspiracy stuff Dutch was into. I forget what that bit corresponded to, if he ever specified.
In Illuminatus!, Dutch's problem was that he was having a conversation across time with someone else. These things always cause confusion.
I knew someone here would know. I just ran across it in another book, but I think it was in there as a Dutch ref, not as an Illuminatus ref.
Of course, everything's connected to the Loomers somehow.
Update on Robert Jordan's health -- apparently, he's just back from the Mayo Clinic.
Here's a movie summarizing 12 volumes of A Series of Unfortunate Events in 120 seconds. Narrated by Tim Curry.
That was fun! I rather disliked the first book - the style bugged - but I find the concept amusing. And I always like Tim Curry talking at me.
Plus, -The End- is the best book title EVER.
OK, is it a serial post if it's days later?
I don't know why this surprises me, but I just discovered that people are getting the Phaedre's tattoo from the Kushiel series: [link]
(except for one person who randomly got a happy drow goddess from D&D with the motto from the book)