I know it's from As You Like It;
Correct.
I can't remember the character's name, though.
Who's the clown in that play?
Also, you didn't answer the last question. I suspect you've used The Reply Churlish on chatty coworker this week.
Don't you have an elsewhere to be?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
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."
DavidS - Feb 22, 2007 9:07:39 am PST #1998 of 28175
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Steph L. - Feb 22, 2007 9:16:54 am PST #1999 of 28175
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I suspect you've used The Reply Churlish on chatty coworker this week.
Oh, I only EVER use The Reply Churlish. Anything else is just inauthentic dissembling.
§ ita § - Feb 22, 2007 9:54:56 am PST #2000 of 28175
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm reading Octavia Butler's book, The Fledgling. I know it wasn't supposed to be one of her best, but I feel almost awkward reading it, like I'm in someone else's business. The POV character is not a very informed one at this point in the book, but somehow it all feels childlike to me. Having a hard time convincing myself to finish.
Why won't the damn library find me a copy of Swordspoint???
Connie Neil - Feb 22, 2007 9:56:17 am PST #2001 of 28175
brillig
Why won't the damn library find me a copy of Swordspoint???
I need to steal my library's copy of it. I swear I'll love it properly.
§ ita § - Feb 22, 2007 11:30:57 am PST #2002 of 28175
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I need to steal my library's copy of it. I swear I'll love it properly.
You! You are the villain!
Somehow I managed to end up with a book after it, and now it seems there's no way I'm getting Swordspoint before I have to return what I have.
brenda m - Feb 23, 2007 3:02:29 am PST #2003 of 28175
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
Heh. I just started rereading that the other night. Hivemind in action.
Kate P. - Feb 23, 2007 3:54:18 am PST #2004 of 28175
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I just read that a couple of weeks ago! I really enjoyed it, though I liked The Privilege of the Sword even better -- anyone read that one yet? I fell head-over-heels for the main character, while nobody in Swordspoint quite grabbed me like she did. It also made me wonder if Swordspoint would be a significantly different book if Kushner wrote it now, instead of in the 80s, just in terms of (barely spoilery) attitudes towards sex and sexuality -- how much to show vs. tell, that sort of thing.
Beverly - Feb 23, 2007 4:29:26 am PST #2005 of 28175
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I read Swordspoint when it first came out, and have had to buy another copy to reread before I tackle The Fall of Kings before I get to Priviledge of the Sword. All three are in the TBR pile. Somewhere. I loved her Thomas the Rhymer, too.
Consuela - Feb 23, 2007 1:57:49 pm PST #2006 of 28175
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I really like Swordspoint, didn't like The Fall of Kings, and loved Privilege of the Sword. I'm not sure what any of that means.
Volans - Mar 03, 2007 10:56:45 am PST #2007 of 28175
move out and draw fire
I've got Privilege of the Sword on my PDA but have not read it. I did just read Spook, by the woman who wrote Stiff. It's about scientific research into life after death, and is pretty funny, although maybe not a pay-full-price.
I also just read Accelerando (cyperpunk), Smoke and Mirrors by Gaiman, and some fantasy novel. Oh, right, Elantris. And one of Elizabeth Peters first books, which showed me how much she's improved.
Oh, and the Simon Winchester book about the San Francisco earthquake, which is a perfectly Simon Winchester book.