Becuase of my neck surgery last year, I'm supposed to pre-medicate with antibiotics
before
visiting the dentist until 2 years after the surgery. Because the dentist's hands have all sorts of germs on them, and the hands spend a lot of time in the mouth, and so on....
Closer to topic, I'm re-reading Barker's
Imajica
right now. I shudder to think about his possible dreams while he was out.
That may be the saddest thing I've ever seen.
And it reminds me, I've been meaning to post a link to The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessismore. This is my pick for Best Animated Short this year, by a HUGE margin, and not just because it's about books.
I've been meaning to post a link to The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessismore.
I posted that link last weekend: in Movies, I think. Isn't it WONDERFUL?
It is! Sorry I missed your link in Movies, I would have talked it up.
It's so sad and beautiful and WONDERFUL. If it doesn't win I will be shocked and dismayed.
Thanks for that link, ita--that is sad and wonderful.
RIP John Christopher.
The Tripod trilogy had a big effect on me. One of my favorite series growing up. I remember riding in a car with a classmate and we were comparing books we were reading. I pimped The White Mountains and The City of Gold and Lead to him, and he suggested I read this book I'd never heard of called The Hobbit.
I read those! I remember liking them, though not much about them has stuck with me. I sometimes mix him up with John Wyndham, who wrote
Day of the Triffids.
(Tripods, Triffids: it's easy to confuse them, right? Now I wonder who would win in a fight...)
(Tripods, Triffids: it's easy to confuse them, right? Now I wonder who would win in a fight...)
Neither would defeat the Midwich Cuckoos.