You two carried me through that war. Now I need you to carry me just a little bit further. If you can.
Tracy ,'The Message'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Tom Scola - Sep 08, 2010 8:32:37 am PDT #12362 of 28330
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Jesse - Sep 08, 2010 8:37:37 am PDT #12363 of 28330
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What was the gesture? Because the shocker just puts people right off.
Seriously??? Crap, I heard dudes were into that.
Jars - Sep 08, 2010 8:43:38 am PDT #12364 of 28330
Because the shocker just puts people right off.
Pfft. Maybe you prudish Americans. In Europe it's a friendly gesture of affection.
§ ita § - Sep 08, 2010 8:45:23 am PDT #12365 of 28330
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Books are one of the only things which will prompt this kind of discussion
Clothes are what people talk to me about. And my lunchbox. Not that often my books. Except Godel, Escher, Bach, usually to ask me why.
Though I did see Bradley Cooper reading Middlesex while I was reading it, and I almost went over to talk to him about it. Coulda shoulda woulda.
Ginger - Sep 08, 2010 8:48:39 am PDT #12366 of 28330
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Roald Dahl’s last words.
I expect his last two words to be mine.
DavidS - Sep 08, 2010 8:50:59 am PDT #12367 of 28330
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I expect his last two words to be mine.
"Awww, shit," is likely for me.
Though my favorite last words were from the Irish writer Brendan Behan.
He was in a Catholic hospital, on his death bed, and attended by a nurse who was a nun. He stirred to consciousness as she wiped his brow and he said, "Ahhh, thank you sister, and may all your children be bishops."
Ginger - Sep 08, 2010 8:59:50 am PDT #12368 of 28330
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It is apocryphal, but I like to think that Oscar Wilde's last words were really "Either that wallpaper goes or I do."
Volans - Sep 08, 2010 9:26:13 am PDT #12369 of 28330
move out and draw fire
Dylan Thomas: "I've had 17 whiskeys. I think that's a record."
Typo Boy - Sep 08, 2010 9:52:11 am PDT #12370 of 28330
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Karl Marx: "Last words are for fools who have not written enough books."
Aims - Sep 08, 2010 10:08:43 am PDT #12371 of 28330
Shit's all sorts of different now.
MARXIST! SOCIALIST! THINK OF THE VIKINGS!