That particular experience hasn't happened to me in a long time. I used to get quite disturbed by it; it feels like your brain has been reprogrammed (and I guess it has - the writing has transmitted some sort of viral code into your software). I wonder if my mind has become immune to it? Or I just haven't read anything really good lately.
Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.
Host ,'Why We Fight'
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."
Volans - Jan 12, 2007 8:31:11 pm PST #1877 of 28172
move out and draw fire
Strix - Jan 15, 2007 10:14:29 am PST #1878 of 28172
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Ooh, that's accurate. I definitely remember having that experience with writers, especially in my twenties. I don't know if it's because I had more things to be exposed to in my twenties, or if I was more open...but I do remember many a 4 am, after having read something, being wide-awake to the world, feeling like my brain was steaming in the cool dawn air from the weight of ideas and visions brought to life by a writer.
I still get it, sometimes. But I have a lot less of them than I used to.
erikaj - Jan 15, 2007 11:24:29 am PST #1879 of 28172
Always Anti-fascist!
The Wire did that for me last. Specifically, "I got the gun. You got the briefcase."
brenda m - Jan 16, 2007 11:33:53 am PST #1880 of 28172
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
You know how sometimes you read reviews and it seems like the reviewer read an entirely different book than you did? [link]
Polter-Cow - Jan 16, 2007 11:36:29 am PST #1881 of 28172
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
He told Svensk Bokhandel magazine that he had "got worked up in advance about Britt-Marie Mattsson because I detest her so very greatly. But let's hope the book is published so I get the chance to say it for real."
Ha ha ha ha. Oh my God. That's ridiculous.
Gris - Jan 16, 2007 1:08:32 pm PST #1882 of 28172
Hey. New board.
That is totally awesome. In a terrible way.
sumi - Jan 17, 2007 7:29:05 am PST #1883 of 28172
Art Crawl!!!
Ian McEwan finds his long lost brother.
flea - Jan 18, 2007 3:28:56 am PST #1884 of 28172
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The way to have a house built if you are a book-lover (NYTimes, needs free registration) [link]
§ ita § - Jan 18, 2007 10:01:03 am PST #1885 of 28172
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That article needs more pictures. So taunty.
meara - Jan 18, 2007 5:00:31 pm PST #1886 of 28172
VERY taunty--there's no picture of this awesome staircase they talk about, just of the kitchen. WTF?