Is there any style guide that uses both italics and underlining, for two different things? I can't recall ever learning any.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Hil R. - Feb 01, 2007 5:01:52 pm PST #1916 of 28432
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
sumi - Feb 01, 2007 6:17:20 pm PST #1917 of 28432
Art Crawl!!!
If you can't do italics - you underline. That's what I learned from back in the day of typewriters.
Nutty - Feb 01, 2007 6:21:01 pm PST #1918 of 28432
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Right. MLA is just wicked old-fashioned. (Although possibly not any more, as they are revising for a 2008 publication date.)
Anne W. - Feb 02, 2007 2:09:19 am PST #1919 of 28432
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Re. Harry Potter, I'm not sure what I'm looking forward to more: finding out how it ends or watching fandom reactions to how things end.
Kathy A - Feb 02, 2007 6:48:35 am PST #1920 of 28432
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
That's right! It'll be interesting to see some fans' heads explode. Like the Harry-Hermione 'shippers who retreated to their own personal bubble after HBP and refused to acknowledge what JKR wrote.
Atropa - Feb 02, 2007 11:24:52 am PST #1921 of 28432
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Re. Harry Potter, I'm not sure what I'm looking forward to more: finding out how it ends or watching fandom reactions to how things end.
I know! Because no matter what happens in the final book, there will be some portion of fandom that flips right out.
Aims - Feb 02, 2007 11:26:12 am PST #1922 of 28432
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I'ma flip right out cause it's over.
I might end up pulling what I pulled when Return of the King came out. I refused for weeks to go see it cause I didn't want it to be over cause I loved it so much.
Kathy A - Feb 02, 2007 11:39:05 am PST #1923 of 28432
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I hope JKR eventually does write the Encyclopedia of Harry Potter and His World book that she mentioned in an interview after HBP was released. It would be a good way for her to finally print the extensive backstory she created for so many of the secondary (and tertiary!) characters.
Aims - Feb 02, 2007 11:50:32 am PST #1924 of 28432
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I would love to see that.
Although, I am such a dork that save the backstories, I could write one. Joe won't watch the movies with me anymore cause I kept yelling, "WRONG!" at the screen.
DavidS - Feb 02, 2007 12:04:32 pm PST #1925 of 28432
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It would be a good way for her to finally print the extensive backstory she created for so many of the secondary (and tertiary!) characters.
Talk about a Fan Fiction source book.