Wow- David Foster Wallace must not have had to have his syllabi approved by a curriculum committee!
Cordelia: I get it now. You're all spies. Probably all Russian. And you've brainwashed me, and want me to believe we're friends so I'll spill the beans about some nano-technology thingy that you want. Gunn: So I look Russian to you? Cordelia: Black Russian. Angel: That's a drink.
'Hell Bound'
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."
Sophia Brooks - Nov 28, 2011 8:01:55 am PST #16917 of 28370
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
smonster - Nov 28, 2011 8:49:37 am PST #16918 of 28370
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I just realized that I've been conflating David Foster Wallace and Daniel Wallace. Oopsies.
erikaj - Nov 28, 2011 9:44:55 am PST #16919 of 28370
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm torn between thinking those were the best suggestions ever, and thinking those were the high standards that made him too good for this world.
DavidS - Nov 28, 2011 9:47:07 am PST #16920 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and thinking those were the high standards that made him too good for this world.
I was definitely thinking that too. I don't know if I'd say "too good for this world" but so sensitive and constantly self-conscious that he couldn't last long in this world.
erikaj - Nov 28, 2011 9:57:13 am PST #16921 of 28370
Always Anti-fascist!
Ok, "too good for this world," is a bit of a maudlin flourish, but you feel me, right? Part of what I learned in college is to believe that my ideas were strong enough to stand up past Jerkoff Hands(TM) It was only a partial process then, that the internet has helped me complete, and it would have seemed like a blessing to the shy, blush-prone undergraduate that I was then if my instructor had been so fiercely anti-JOH, but I learned to persevere past them, which I think has greater real-life implications.
sumi - Nov 29, 2011 5:24:47 am PST #16922 of 28370
Art Crawl!!!
Excellent Game of Thrones poster.
Strix - Nov 29, 2011 5:39:20 am PST #16923 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I often wished to include things like "If you plagiarize any of your papers, partial or whole, I will KNOW...and I will CUT you. Caveat. Fear me."
But I didn't. So I think those are made of awesome.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2011 10:19:26 am PST #16924 of 28370
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2011 10:24:33 am PST #16925 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What is the temperature at which silicon burns?
Burrell - Nov 30, 2011 10:41:30 am PST #16926 of 28370
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I often wished to include things like "If you plagiarize any of your papers, partial or whole, I will KNOW...and I will CUT you. Caveat. Fear me."
I don't include the "I will CUT you" part, but I do include the rest of it. Because some of them do plagiarize.