Let me take a wild guess and say it has something to do with how the Religious Right has a habit of judging and seeking to punish those who they believe to be sinners.
Does anybody else miss the Mayor? 'I just want to be a big snake.'
Xander ,'End of Days'
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."
Jon B. - Feb 25, 2006 1:04:15 pm PST #18 of 28089
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Connie Neil - Feb 25, 2006 5:34:25 pm PST #19 of 28089
brillig
I don't remember much about either interview except that in both of them he talked about the "let he who is without sin cast the first stone" story
Because it's not in the oldest manuscript copies of the Gospel, it was apparently a bit of fic that got popular and some scribe thought it should be/was canon and made sure it got copied in.
Kathy A - Feb 26, 2006 8:59:55 am PST #20 of 28089
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
So, just like the end of Mark, right? I found it interesting that, in the original, Mark ended with the discovery of the empty tomb, and the words "and they were terrified." Talk about your WTF endings!
§ ita § - Feb 26, 2006 3:03:54 pm PST #21 of 28089
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sumi - Feb 26, 2006 3:26:55 pm PST #22 of 28089
Art Crawl!!!
Kate P. - Feb 26, 2006 5:25:32 pm PST #23 of 28089
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Octavia Butler has died.
Whoa. She was only 58! And... I mean, she just published a new book. I don't know, it just doesn't seem right for her to die. That's so sad.
Connie Neil - Feb 26, 2006 5:54:09 pm PST #24 of 28089
brillig
So, just like the end of Mark, right?
The end of Mark, chunks of Revelation, the differences between the Gospels, why do some old manuscripts show Jesus as being angry at some points when other manuscripts show Jesus as being compassionate at the same moment. There are a lot of variants.
Steph L. - Feb 27, 2006 6:24:15 am PST #25 of 28089
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I'm having a hard time getting through Melusine. I *want* to like it, and the basic premise is enough to make me want to know what happens to the characters, but....150 pages in, and NOTHING KEEPS HAPPENING. It's all
Mildmay: t gritty life of a thief....
Felix: t I am FUCKING NUTS.
Mildmay: t No, REALLY -- gritty life of a thief....
Felix: t Everyone looks like an animal to me. And I see dead people. Did I mention I'm FUCKING NUTS?!?
Plus, the whole system of marking time is so confusing to me that it pulls me right out of the story. I spend about 5 minutes trying to puzzle out what a Great Septad is (I still don't know, though from context I'm assuming it's somewhere between 25 and 50 years), and then I realize I forgot what I just read, and have to go back and re-read it.
I'm serious about wanting to like it -- I really, really do. I want to see what happens, but I'm beginning to suspect that nothing ever will, except the gritty life of a thief and a crazy-ass dude.
beth b - Feb 27, 2006 7:05:03 am PST #26 of 28089
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
DH read it - but sadly , I'm not sure what he thought of it. When i get his opinion, I'll post it.
Betsy HP - Feb 27, 2006 7:07:38 am PST #27 of 28089
If I only had a brain...
Steph, stuff definitely happens. However, there's a needs-a-sequel ending, and the sequel will be out in a few months.