Big surprise: Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty is getting re-released.
We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm the hero!
Wash ,'Jaynestown'
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."
Tom Scola - Jul 09, 2012 3:49:46 pm PDT #19275 of 28342
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
JZ - Jul 10, 2012 4:29:17 am PDT #19276 of 28342
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Totally parenthetical, but I'm pretty sure Chesterton and Sayers never hung out. I'm not certain that even Lewis ever met Chesterton, whose writing he idolized.
(And, parenthetically to the parenthetical remark, TBH, once I read Chesterton it was really hard to go back to Lewis -- once I'd immersed myself in one of his stylistic heroes, it became so painfully clear how much of what I'd loved about his own style was imitative. Really competently, lovingly imitative, but not a patch on the real thing.)
(There's also a whole huge dissertation on all the gigantically problematic things about Chesterton and his worldview (not to mention the persistent threads of solidarity with the working, non-working and totally shat on poor, and the Occupy-friendly EAT THE RICH sentiment glimmering through all the gigantically problematic parts) and looking at old works through a modern lens, but now I'm about to make myself late for work. I will say, though, that for all his racism and sexism and all the other -isms, Chesterton was an incalculably huge part of pushing me into straight-up progressivism.)
(But still pretty sure he and Sayers never met.)
Consuela - Jul 10, 2012 5:30:29 am PDT #19277 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I've never read any Chesterton, but I've always wondered about him. Where should I start?
DavidS - Jul 10, 2012 5:37:58 am PDT #19278 of 28342
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Where should I start?
JZ's busy at work on a Tuesday morning, but I'm sure she'd recommend The Man Who Was Tuesday as that's her favorite.
(It's also very accessible and funny.)
Connie Neil - Jul 10, 2012 5:54:11 am PDT #19279 of 28342
brillig
Is this the Chesterton who wrote The Rich are Different?
Typo Boy - Jul 10, 2012 5:58:52 am PDT #19280 of 28342
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
You are right the Chesterton was not part of the Inklings. Don't know why I thought he was. Apparantly Sayers was not really a member being a woman, but did socialize with them and was sometimes considered an informal member. [link]
But if Chesterton was pro-working class it was in a very odd way. [link]
Typo Boy - Jul 10, 2012 6:18:31 am PDT #19281 of 28342
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I will add that the Rebecca West link is the essay in which she made the statement often quoted: "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what Feminism is: I only know that people call me a Feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute." [link]
Calli - Jul 10, 2012 7:35:50 am PDT #19282 of 28342
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I think the man was actually Thursday.
Consuela - Jul 10, 2012 8:17:47 am PDT #19283 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oooh, it looks like loads of Chesterton is available for Kindle, for free.
DavidS - Jul 10, 2012 8:18:19 am PDT #19284 of 28342
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think the man was actually Thursday.
Oh, you are entirely correct.
Now my wife will chastise me.