G.K. Chesterton wrote a poem about how everything is on the back of the cover.
Tracy: Well-- That call -- That call means you just murdered me. Mal: No, son. You murdered yourself. I just carried the bullet a while.
'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."
Toddson - Aug 03, 2011 1:02:44 pm PDT #15853 of 28293
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Frankenbuddha - Aug 04, 2011 4:11:04 am PDT #15854 of 28293
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
House of Stairs was great. It definitely had a big impact on me as a kid, especially in the area of "the authorities may not have your best interests at heart".
hippocampus - Aug 04, 2011 5:20:42 pm PDT #15855 of 28293
not your mom's socks.
Has anyone toyed with The Mongoliad? They're up to 30-some chapters (if I read the TOC right) - that's a lot of catching up.
Consuela - Aug 04, 2011 8:30:45 pm PDT #15856 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Has anyone toyed with The Mongoliad?
I remember hearing about it before it started, but nothing since. Is it any good?
hippocampus - Aug 05, 2011 4:18:03 am PDT #15857 of 28293
not your mom's socks.
Consuela, I braked at the TOC. I'm still considering the commitment.
"You Can Stuff Your Mary-Sue Where The Sun Don't Shine" Hah.
Steph L. - Aug 05, 2011 8:40:25 am PDT #15858 of 28293
I look more rad than Lutheranism
"You Can Stuff Your Mary-Sue Where The Sun Don't Shine" Hah.
That reminded me that I'm behind on the Demon's Lexicon series. I think I only read the first one, actually.
Polter-Cow - Aug 05, 2011 8:48:05 am PDT #15859 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I feel bad for the Department of Mysteries. The DA totally destroyed, like, hundreds of prophecies! What if they were important?!
Holli - Aug 05, 2011 9:34:30 am PDT #15860 of 28293
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
I was thinking recently about how Harriet Vane is a total authorial self-insert, and yet is also totally awesome and not a Mary Sue.
My going theory is that Dorothy Sayers herself is so awesome that inserting herself into the story just carried the awesome along with her. Well, and also Harriet is flawed and fairly realistic, but I like the awesomeness theory better.
Connie Neil - Aug 05, 2011 9:35:59 am PDT #15861 of 28293
brillig
I always wanted to smack Harriet and tell her to get over her ruined self.
Consuela - Aug 05, 2011 9:37:48 am PDT #15862 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I feel bad for the Department of Mysteries. The DA totally destroyed, like, hundreds of prophecies! What if they were important?!
But prophecies are... I was going to claim that they were useless, except in HP, the existence of the prophecy was in fact what gave rise to the fulfillment of the prophecy. Which is also what happened in Oedipus. So perhaps the point of prophecies is to be self-fulfilling.
That said, I don't think that storing them away secretly (where only those who are mentioned in them can find out what they say) is a particularly useful thing to do. Would it have made a difference if Voldemort knew the second half of Harry's prophecy? Not really, because he knew enough to want to kill Harry. I don't think it would have changed what he did.
I kind of prefer prophecies that are just hanging out there and nobody really knows what they mean until after they're fulfilled, like Burnham Wood to Dunsinane, or No Mortal Man May Kill Me. Eowyn didn't know about the prophecy, after all.